Substitute Teacher

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for

performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.

Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Physical Requirements 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• Walking, Sitting or standing for extended periods of time

• Ability to quickly trail any student that elopes

• Moderate lifting from 15-35 pounds

• Moving of various items like wheelchairs or other mechanical devices – up to 30 pounds

• Manual dexterity to use for items like classroom and building equipment and supplies

• Bending, kneeling, twisting or stooping and other movements as required to ensure safety of scholars

• Ability to write legibly

• Vision (Near, Color, Depth Perception)

• Sense of Sound (Ability to hear fire alarms, bells, and PA system)

• Sense of Touch

• Ability to speak clearly and distinctly

• Able to work near students and other staff 

Work Environment 

• Work is performed in all areas inside and outside of district buildings, including within the school building, on school grounds, school vehicles and transportation, and/or any area in which a district activity or function is taking place

• Work is not performed in student homes

• Exposed to inside and outside environmental conditions like varying degrees of temperature and unpredictable noise 

The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:

1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

(216)-838-0070

TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org