Who are We?
Brooke Charter Schools is a network of four public charter schools serving grades K-12 in Mattapan, Roslindale, and East Boston. At Brooke, we coach and invest in our teachers to ensure students experience high-quality education at all times. We leverage our family partnerships to support and empower our students to live choice-filled lives. Brooke Charter School is committed to high academic achievement and supporting our students to and through college.
What is the Associate Teacher Role?
The Associate Teacher Program is a nontraditional pathway that prepares aspiring educators to become lead teachers within one year. Designed to support early-career educators, the program combines intensive coaching, professional development, and hands-on classroom experience to help participants build the skills and confidence needed to become effective teachers. Brooke Charter Schools is committed to being an anti-racist organization. In support of this commitment, the Associate Teacher Program advances the school's anti-racist and anti-bias mission by recruiting and developing Associates from diverse cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.
The Associate Teacher program has three core components:
- One-to-one Mentoring
- Every Associate Teacher is paired with a mentor. Mentors are experienced lead teachers in their school community.
- Mentor Teachers provide Associate Teachers with targeted feedback to support growth in teaching practices through regular observations, coaching conversations, and formal monthly evaluations.
- Professional Development
- Associates participate in over 300 hours of weekly intensive professional development (PD).
- PD topics include developing culturally sustaining pedagogical practices, how to increase student talk time, and strategies to develop authentic teacher presence, etc.
- Gradual Release Teaching Model
- Associates practice skills from targeted professional development and take on more teaching components.
- Associates teach full days in their mentor's classroom and are granted opportunities to teach across their K-8th or 9th-12th-grade campus.
- Associate teachers will assume the duties of absent classroom teachers and teach across different grade levels and classrooms.
Benefits of being a Brooke Associate Teacher:
- Earn a competitive starting salary of $60,000. Lead-teaching promotions are accompanied by a significant salary increase of at least $75,000.
- Upon meeting standards, free enrollment in the online Sheltered Education Immersion (SEI Course, a required Massachusetts MTEL)
- One-time reimbursement for the initial Communication and Literacy MTEL.
- Enrollment in medical, dental, and vision insurance accompanied by retirement benefits.
*Current school year salary is subject to change based on an increase cost of living.
Is This You?
- You are committed to uprooting racism through academics and equipping your students with tools to advocate for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive future. Read more about how we are working on this at Brooke here.
- You are professional, warm, and collaborative with students, families, and colleagues.
- You are eager for feedback as a means to grow.
- You have earned a bachelor’s degree.
- You will be able to begin working in person late July 2027.
The community and students we serve are diverse, and we are committed to reflecting that diversity in our staff. We strive to have the most diverse applicant pool possible; to that end, we encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply for any position at Brooke Charter Schools. By fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, we provide the best educational experience to prepare our students for a future reflective of the world in which we live.