IJLA High School Teacher and Teacher Leader Positions in Chicago

Instituto Justice & Leadership Academies (IJLA) is hiring for the 2014-2015 school year.  We are a social justice alternative high school located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.  We pride ourselves in being an independent charter with unionized teachers that facilitate the education of 17-21 year olds that have been pushed out or dropped out of their previous high schools.

IJLA's Mission

IJLA is dedicated to the principle that education is liberation. Our mission as a learning community is to engage our students in a rigorous and social justice inspired program driven by a student centered environment. We define social justice as a way of life that challenges an individual to realize the power and potential in themselves and their community.  It is guided by the principles that education is the foundation for critical reflection, understanding, unity, and leadership to take action and transform the world around them.

IJLA seeks to empower students to become decision makers in their own lives and use their education to become productive agents of change.  We do this by encouraging youth who may have faced injustice to actively participating in various community actions that fight against all forms of injustice. We prepare our students to respectfully question our society at all policy levels and encourage students to model what they believe by becoming critical thinkers and leaders cultivating a cycle of individual success and lasting social justice.  We also cultivate a safe environment that promotes critical reflection in order to act upon and transform themselves and the world around them.

We are looking for individuals for the following positions:

*   Lead Teacher (tentative position with high focus on coaching curriculum & pedagogy)
*   Math teacher
*   Science teacher
*   Social studies/Herstory teacher
*   Special education teacher
*   Counselor
*   Registrar
*   Tutor

Please send resumes to

Alejandra Frausto, Associate Principal: a.frausto@idpl.org

Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy

2570 South Blue Island Ave.

Chicago, IL 60608

(o) 773-890-0055