Math Teacher - High School

Description

Math Teacher

About Elevated Life Academy

Elevated Life Academy is a private school in Phoenix, Arizona, with the mission of “Empowering Students - Preparing For Life.” The school is designed for students who benefit from a structured, supportive academic environment, individualized instruction, real-life application, social-emotional support, and preparation for life beyond high school.

Position Summary

Elevated Life Academy is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and student-centered Math Teacher to provide engaging and practical mathematics instruction in a supportive secondary school environment. The ideal candidate will help students strengthen foundational math skills, build confidence, develop problem-solving abilities, and understand how math applies to everyday life, future careers, independent living, and post-high school success.

This teacher will design and deliver differentiated math instruction, support students with diverse learning needs, implement accommodations and modifications, collaborate with families and staff, and create a classroom environment where students feel safe, capable, and empowered to grow.

Key Responsibilities

Instruction and Curriculum

• Develop and deliver engaging math lessons aligned with student needs, academic standards, and school goals.
• Teach assigned math courses and skills, which may include foundational math, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, measurement, data interpretation, consumer math, budgeting, financial literacy, and real-world problem solving
• Differentiate instruction for students with varying academic levels, learning styles, processing needs, and support plans.
• Incorporate real-life applications into math instruction, consistent with Elevated Life Academy’s emphasis on helping students understand how classroom content applies to everyday life and adult responsibilities.
• Use a variety of instructional methods, including direct instruction, guided practice, small-group instruction, hands-on activities, visual supports, manipulatives, technology, project-based learning, and independent practice.
• Help students build confidence with math by breaking concepts into clear, manageable steps and providing frequent opportunities for practice, feedback, and success.

Student Support

• Create a structured, positive, and supportive classroom environment that promotes academic growth, emotional regulation, independence, and confidence.
• Support students with unique learning, emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs through patience, consistency, and individualized strategies. Elevated Life Academy specifically serves students who may need a more structured academic setting, social skills support, emotional regulation support, transition planning, and individualized instruction. 
• Implement accommodations, modifications, behavior supports, and instructional strategies as outlined in student plans.
• Encourage student self-advocacy, perseverance, respectful communication, and personal responsibility.
• Monitor student progress and adjust instruction based on academic performance, engagement, behavior, and individual goals.

IEP and Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with school leadership, special education staff, related service providers, families, and other team members to support student success.
• Participate in IEP implementation and provide relevant classroom data, observations, work samples, and progress updates.
• Maintain accurate documentation related to student grades, attendance, accommodations, progress, behavior, and classroom performance.
• Support Elevated Life Academy’s partnership-based approach with families, including transparent communication, collaborative IEP implementation, regular progress updates, and a welcoming school culture. 

Assessment and Progress Monitoring

• Use formative and summative assessments to evaluate student understanding and skill development.
• Track progress in math fluency, computation, problem solving, conceptual understanding, applied math, and independence.
• Provide timely, constructive feedback to students.
• Prepare grades, progress reports, and family communication as required.
• Use student data to guide instructional planning, reteaching, intervention, enrichment, and goal setting.

Classroom Culture and Professionalism

• Build positive relationships with students based on trust, respect, consistency, and high expectations.
• Maintain a welcoming and inclusive classroom culture where students are encouraged to take academic risks and learn from mistakes.
• Use proactive classroom management strategies that support emotional regulation, engagement, and accountability.
• Communicate professionally and regularly with families, staff, and administration.
• Participate in staff meetings, professional development, school events, and collaborative planning.
• Uphold the mission, values, and student-centered approach of Elevated Life Academy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Education, Special Education, or a related field.
• Experience teaching mathematics, numeracy, problem solving, or related academic content.
• Experience working with adolescents or secondary-level students.
• Ability to differentiate instruction for students with diverse learning needs.
• Strong classroom management, communication, organization, and documentation skills.
• Comfort teaching math in a practical, accessible, and confidence-building way.
• Commitment to creating a safe, structured, inclusive, and supportive learning environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively with families, colleagues, and school leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Arizona teaching certification in Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special Education, or a related area.
• Experience working with students who have IEPs, learning differences, emotional regulation needs, behavioral needs, autism, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, or other developmental needs.
• Familiarity with special education practices, accommodations, modifications, progress monitoring, and transition planning.
• Experience teaching foundational math, algebra, geometry, consumer math, financial literacy, or life-skills-based math.
• Training or experience in trauma-informed practices, social-emotional learning, behavior support, executive functioning support, or differentiated instruction.
• Experience incorporating real-world math applications such as budgeting, taxes, cooking measurements, shopping, time management, workplace math, and independent living skills.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal Math Teacher at Elevated Life Academy is patient, encouraging, flexible, and highly relational. This person understands that many students may come to math with frustration, anxiety, or gaps in foundational skills, and knows how to rebuild confidence through structure, encouragement, repetition, and practical application.

The successful candidate will bring creativity, compassion, high expectations, and a belief that every student can grow when given the right support.