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60 employers, summer and post-graduation jobs! All majors and class years are welcome!

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Welcome to the 2014 Boston College K-12 Education Career Fair!

HOW TO WORK THE FAIR

1. Make a list of the schools or districts you would most like to speak with. 2. Read those schools' profiles in this program (and read some of their literature or look at their

websites) ? write down any questions you would like to ask. 3. Rehearse an introduction that includes your name, degree and major, your goals (e.g. "a job

teaching in a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom in a progressive charter school"), and your strengths as a teacher or as a person who enjoys working with young people. 4. Have conversations! 5. Get business cards or names, titles and email addresses, follow up with thank you notes. 6. NEED ASSISTANCE or ADVICE? Come speak with us at the Career Center Help Table.

Public School Districts

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Arlington Public Schools...........................................................................Arlington, MA 55

Blueprint Schools Network................................ Boston, MA (and Denver, CO; St. Louis, MO) 48

Boston Public Schools................................................................................. Boston, MA 46

Cambridge Public Schools....................................................................... Cambridge, MA 40

Chelsea Public Schools..................................................................................... Chelsea, MA 37

Everett Public Schools.................................................................................Everett, MA 30

Framingham Public Schools................................................................... Framingham, MA 28

Gardner Pilot Academy................................................................................Allston, MA 27

Lynn Public Schools..................................................................................... Lynn, MA 23

Mansfield Public Schools.......................................................................... Mansfield, MA 22

Milford Public Schools............................................................................... Milford, MA 20

Natick Public Schools.................................................................................. Natick, MA 17

New Bedford Public Schools...................................................................New Bedford, MA 15

Randolph Public Schools............................................................................Randolph, MA 10

Somerville Public Schools........................................................................Somerville, MA

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Springfield Public Schools....................................................................... Springfield, MA

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Waltham Public Schools............................................................................ Waltham, MA

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Windham High School ...............................................................................Windham, NH

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Public Charter Schools and Related

Achievement First (25 schools)...................................................... CT, NY, RI. Grades K-12 Atlantis Charter School............................................................. Fall River, MA, Grades K-8 Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy.......................................... Cumberland, RI, Grades K-6 Boston Collegiate Charter School............................................... Dorchester, MA, Grades 5-12

TABLE 57 53 49 47

Boston Preparatory Charter Public School..................................... Hyde Park, MA, Grades 6-12 45

Brooke Charter Schools................................................................ Boston, MA, Grades K-8 42

Community Charter School of Cambridge ......................................... Cambridge, MA, Grades 7-12 34

Lowell Community Charter Public School.................................................... Lowell, MA, Grades K-6 24

Match Education...................................................... Boston, MA; Chicago, IL, Grades Pre-12 21

Mystic Valley Regional Charter School........................................... Malden, MA, Grades K-12 16

Success Academy Charter Schools (22 schools)......

New York, NY, Grades K-12

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Uncommon Schools (32 schools)................................. NY, NJ, and Boston, MA, Grades K-12

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Unlocking Potential (5 schools)......................................... Boston/Lawrence, MA, Grades K1-8

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Catholic Schools

Cristo Rey Boston........................................................................ Dorchester, MA, Grades 9-12 Mount Alvernia High School................................................ Newton, MA, Girls, Grades 7-12 Mother Caroline Academy......................................................Boston, MA, Girls, Grades 4-8 Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School............................................. Lawrence, MA, Grades 9-12 St Joseph Preparatory High School ................................................. Boston, MA, Grades 9-12 Xaverian Brothers High School.......................................... Westwood, MA, Boys, Grades 7-12

TABLE 32 18 19 59 7 58

Independent Schools

Beaver Country Day School.......................................................Brookline, MA, Grades 6-12 Buckingham Browne & Nichols School......................................... Cambridge, MA, PreK-Grade 12 Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School................................................ Waltham, MA, Grades 9-12 Cotting School (special needs)........................... .... Lexington, MA, students ages 3 to 22 years Fay School.............................................................................Southborough, MA, PreK-9 Home for Little Wanderers, The..................................................... Boston, MA, Grades K-12 Newton Country Day School ........................................................Newton, MA, Grades 5-12 Parkside Christian/ Crossfactor Academy...............................Jamaica Plain, MA, PreK-Grade 10

TABLE 51 41 38 33 29 26 14 13

Other Employers

Ameson Foundation (teach in China).............................................................................China Axiom Learning (after-school learning centers).................... Boston, MA; Los Altos, CA; Malaysia BELL (after-school & summer programs).................. ........................................... Dorchester, MA Breakthrough Greater Boston.............................................Boston, MA, and 38 sites nationally Bridge International Academies..................................................................Cambridge, MA Citizen Schools............................................................. CA, IL, MA, NC, NJ, NM, NY, TX City Year Boston......................................... Boston, MA and 24 urban locations across the U.S. EF Education First (language schools, educational travel)............... Cambridge, MA and worldwide Inspirica (tutoring)..........................................................New York, Boston, and Philadelphia Peace Corps............................................ 77 developing countries, Primary through Post-Secondary Perkins School for the Blind......................................................................Watertown, MA Teach in China.................................................................................................. China Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center..............................................Boston, MA

TABLE 56 52 50 44 43 36 35 31 25 12 11 60 5

Graduate Education Programs

Lynch School of Education Graduate Office of Admission, Financial Aid, and Student Services

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Achievement First is a growing network of non-profit, high-performing, K to 12 urban public charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island. Our schools are focused on providing scholars with the academic and character skills they need to graduate from top colleges and to serve as the next generation of leaders in our communities. Achievement First currently operates 25 schools and will open 10-15 additional schools over the next five years. We strive to recruit a talented and diverse team of educators, and we believe our students are best served by a team that represents the global community for which our students are entering. For more information about Achievement First and to apply online, please visit our website at . TABLE #57

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Founded in 1994 the Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the promotion and implementation of cultural and educational exchanges in China and abroad. Its honorary Chairman is Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former Secretary General of the United Nations. Ameson is headquartered in Washington, DC, In China; Ameson operations centers are in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing

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Arlington is a Public School District with 5000 student among seven elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and an integrated pre-school. Arlington combines a standards-based curriculum with a dynamic, differentiated learning approach to give every child the education they need to succeed. Arlington prides itself on:

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A focus on the whole child: social, emotional, creative and academic. Recruitment and retention of highly qualified and diverse staff. High quality professional development. Parents and community as partners in education.

Arlington values diversity. We encourage candidates of varied backgrounds, including people of color, persons with disabilities and others to apply.



Atlantis, an independent public school, provides an educational choice to the families of Greater Fall River by offering a solid academic foundation to our students on which to build a successful future. We expect equal partnership among parents, community, faculty, staff and students to create a safe, caring, innovative and progressive learning environment. Atlantis incorporates the best research-based practices in education to meet the needs of our student population. It is our intent to become a model of educational excellence.

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Founded by Harvard alumni, Axiom Learning is an innovative after-school learning center focusing on holistically developing the entire student and achieving kids' potential for excellence through fully customized 1-on-1 instruction. Axiom Learning is hiring for positions in both its Boston, MA, Los Altos, CA, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia locations (both full-time and part-time positions are available). All of our current instructors are graduates of top universities, including Dartmouth, Stanford and MIT, and Axiom Learning is a fun, engaging, empowered workplace environment.

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We are an innovative school at the forefront of education. At Beaver, we provide an immersive and dynamic environment that keeps the educational experience rich, relevant, and fun. This is what keeps both students and teachers challenged and passionate. Our teachers are mentors, experts, collaborators, and motivators, dedicated to each and every student reaching their potential. We challenge our students to be knowledgeable, savvy, creative and confident leaders. TABLE #51 For more information, visit our website at

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Our vision is for all children to excel.

BELL exists to transform the academic achievements, self-confidence, and life trajectories of children living in under-resourced, urban communities.

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Because we believe in the tremendous potential of all children to excel, we recognize them as scholars. We pursue our mission through two educational programs, BELL Summer and BELL After School. Through these learning experiences, students benefit from small-group academic instruction, mentorship, a wide range of enrichment activities, and community engagement.

BELL works to ensure all children have the learning opportunities they need to fulfill their potential in school and in



Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) Mayoral Academy is a network of tuition-free public schools chartered by the Rhode Island Department of Education. As a growing network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln and Pawtucket and currently serves nearly 1,000 scholars in grades K-8. A member of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academies network, BVP's mission is to prepare every scholar for success in college and the world beyond.

TABLE #49 Our school culture is founded on the core PRIDE values: Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Discipline and Enthusiasm. Scholars, families and staff are expected to live and implement these in their daily work. Our homerooms are named after the alma mater...



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Blueprint Schools Network (Blueprint) is a nonprofit organization based in Massachusetts. Our work with schools around the country has shown that positive change is possible when five core strategies for school improvement are implemented together as a comprehensive package. These strategies include:

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1. Ensuring every student has an excellent teacher and a school leader committed to their success; 2. Setting clear, consistent standards for academic achievement and establishing a school-wide focus on preparing all students for college; 3. Devoting more time in the school day to teaching and learning; 4. Providing daily, small group tutoring to students using highly qualified and well-trained instructors; and 5. Collecting assessment data frequently to monitor each student'...



BCCS was founded in 1998 with a simple yet ambitious mission: to prepare each student for college. We have grown from 120 students in grades 5 through 7 to over 600 students in grades 5 through 12.

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? 100% of BCCS's 10 graduating classes have been accepted to college. The majority of our students will be the first in their families to earn college degrees. ? In 2013, 100% of BCCS students scored Advanced or Proficient on the 10th grade Math and ELA MCAS exams, ranking us as first in the state on both exams. Also, 100% of BCCS students scored Advanced or Proficient on the 9h grade Physics MCAS exam. BCCS is the only public, non-exam school in the state in which 100% of students have passed the 10th grade Math MCAS for the past 11 years, and over 99% of BCCS students have passe...

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Boston Preparatory Charter Public School utilizes rigorous curriculum, extended academic time, and a range of supports for children and families to prepare 6th-12th grade students to succeed in college. An environment structured around scholarship and personal growth cultivates students' virtues of courage, compassion, integrity, perseverance, and respect. Boston Preparatory Charter Public School (BPCPS) opened to its founding class in the fall of 2004. Now at full capacity, we serve 350 6th-12th graders. TABLE #45 BPCPS is a free, public school, offering a rigorous curriculum. First and foremost, we aim to prepare every student to succeed in college. This approach includes: ? A 190 day school year.



As the birthplace of public education in this nation, the Boston Public Schools is committed to transforming the lives of all children through exemplary teaching in a world-class system of innovative, welcoming schools. We partner with the community, families and students to develop within every learner the knowledge, skill, and character to excel in college, career, and life.

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Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB) is a successful college access and teacher training program. Breakthrough offers six years of academic enrichment and college preparation to middle and high school students with high potential but limited opportunities. Simultaneously, BTGB recruits, trains and inspires a diverse cohort of high achieving undergraduate and high school students to become the next generation of urban teachers. Using a Students Teaching Students model, BTGB provides engaging, tuition-free academic programming in the summer and after school. Our younger students gain the skills and motivation to succeed in rigorous high school courses and, ultimately, in college. Meanwhile, our teachers gain practical hands-on experience, research-based training and coaching from profe...

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Bridge International Academies is transforming education by attacking one of the emerging world's biggest problems: inadequate access to and quality of education for the children of families living on less than $2/day. As of January 2014, Bridge is operating 259 academies in Kenya with more than 80,000 pupils and has aggressive global expansion planned for 2014 and beyond. Bridge utilizes a research-proven, scripted-learning education methodology coupled with big data (all teachers have tablets for instruction, assessment, and data-gathering) to profitably deliver high quality education at less than $6 per child per month.

TABLE #43 Bridge is a for-profit company that deeply believes that financially sustainable solutions are the long-term answer to development in emerging countries. The Comp...

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Brooke Charter Schools is a network of three K-8 public, charter schools dedicated to closing the achievement gap in the Greater Boston area. Brooke students are 94% minority and 80% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For nearly a decade, we have steadily expanded to provide more and more students with the quality education they deserve. In the latest report by Stanford University's CREDO center, researchers found that the typical student in a Boston charter (about 13 percent of the state's charter students) gained more than twelve months of additional learning per year in reading and thirteen months greater progress in math ? in addition, Brooke Charter Schools was name one of the nation's top charter school networks. The original Brooke School (Brooke Roslindale) serves... TABLE #42

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Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, a coeducational day school in Cambridge, came into existence in 1974 through the merger of two schools in Cambridge--the Browne & Nichols School founded in 1883 and the Buckingham School founded in 1889.

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BB&N today offers a premier educational experience to boys and girls in grades Beginner (pre-K) though 12 on three campuses united in the singular pursuit of educational excellence. Individual attention is given to engage students in a rich and invigorating educational experience of the highest quality and to open their minds to new possibilities while providing outstanding preparation for the next steps of their lives. Co-curricular opportunities in athletics, the arts, community service, foreign travel, and other areas add important dimensio...

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