Rising Tide Charter Public School is seeking a College & Future Planning Counselor to join our team of educators for the 2024-2025 school year. Qualified candidates must have a strong background in education as well as college and career counseling. Responsibilities include guiding students and families through the future planning process, developing college and future planning curriculum for high school students, planning and leading college and future planning events, serving as the point of contact for college and future planning with external partners, and teaching the Senior Internship Course.School Profile: Rising Tide Charter Public School (Rising Tide) is a free charter public school in Massachusetts. Rising Tide serves approximately 620 students in grades 5-12 from 20 towns in the schools designated region.Rising Tide provides an academically challenging environment with high standards for all in a safe, small, and rewarding setting.
Teachers develop the curriculum based upon the schoolwide objectives, benchmark skills, and subject area essential questions; the curriculum is aligned with the Massachusetts State Frameworks. Teachers are encouraged to utilize an inquiry-based approach for building skills, content knowledge and understanding within the classroom. To learn more about the school, please visit our website: www.risingtide.orgYou can view the most recent School Profile through the following link: https://risingtide.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RTCPS.US-Profile.2023-2024.pdfRising Tide Goals: To foster in each student a love of learning and high achievement through encouragement to continuously improve in the acquisition of basic skills through work on integrated projects that reflect lifes real challenges.To create a safe, supportive environment where each person treats others with respect and where a student can try new things and take risks without fearing teasing or failure.To encourage each student to grow and take increasing responsibility, both academically and socially.To create and develop in each student an awareness of the diversity both within and outside of the Rising Tide community and encourage tolerance, acceptance, and celebration of differences.To create a close community of students, teachers, parents and community members who work together to encourage all students to develop into successful students, and later, into successful members of their local communities.