History Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

Interested in teaching during the 2026–2027 school year?

Cristo Rey Jesuit Milwaukee is committed to attracting outstanding educators to serve our exceptional students. While there are no current teaching openings, we welcome applications to build an applicant pool for the 2026–2027 school year in support of future planning. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply to their desired content area.

TEACH. INSPIRE. LEAD.

Join Cristo Rey Jesuit High School as a History Teacher and immerse yourself in a dynamic educational environment in Milwaukee, WI. This on-site position offers you the opportunity to inspire students and cultivate a love for literature and language. Engage with a community that values excellence and supports professional growth, allowing you to enhance your teaching skills and innovate your curriculum. You'll collaborate with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about education and committed to student success. Experience the rewarding impact of shaping the next generation of leaders in a nurturing, faith-based setting.

Your contributions will resonate far beyond the classroom as you help students develop critical thinking and communication skills essential to their future success. You will be provided with great benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and Paid Time Off. Seize this opportunity to join a mission-driven organization that is changing lives through education. Apply today!

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: Who We Are

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is part of a national network of 41 high schools that transform urban education through a unique integration of college-prep academics, professional experience, and spiritual formation, with a focus on students of limited financial means. As a private, Catholic, Jesuit high school serving 450 students, Cristo Rey Jesuit's mission is to provide an affordable Catholic secondary education with a college-prep curriculum and a Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP) to prepare graduates for success in college, work, and life.

The Cristo Rey team believes that a sound intellect is only one important component of preparation for college and life. Through both their CWSP experience and intentional opportunities for character and spiritual growth within the school day, Cristo Rey students develop the work ethic, resilience, confidence, empathy, openness to growth, and commitment to justice that help ensure their long-term success and enable them to lead by example.

Job Summary:

As part of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School's motivated and collaborative founding faculty, you will educate students in mind and spirit. Through engaging, data-driven instruction that effectively incorporates technology to enhance learning, you will ensure all students are academically prepared for college, reflective about their learning in both the classroom and the Corporate Work Study Program, and equipped with the habits of mind that undergird success. In the spirit of Ignatian pedagogy, you will create opportunities for students to act, reflect, and grow as they become men and women for others. Your relentlessness, zest, and commitment to excellence will help form a student body distinguished by breakthrough achievement gains, a passion for justice, and dexterity in the professional world. Your interpersonal intelligence, courage, and drive to find solutions will help establish a founding team that is high-functioning, vibrant, and grounded in a deep commitment to the school's bold mission. Ultimately, by giving generously of yourself, your gifts, and your time, you will build the foundation of a school that serves its students' diverse needs and cultivates their many talents.

Responsibilities:

Instructional Practice.

• Guided by the Cristo Rey Network's Common-Core-aligned standards and benchmarks, develop data-driven annual, unit, and lesson plans that drive exceptional student-achievement gains on core assessments, including Cristo Rey Network end-of-course assessments, Measures of Academic Progress, the ACT, and summative performance assessments.
• Design and administer interim assessments aligned to course standards, complete in-depth analysis of student performance on them, and collaborate with colleagues and the instructional leadership to develop and execute appropriate small-group and whole-group instructional responses to assessment results.
• Execute rigorous, engaging, high-impact lessons that accelerate student growth and are characterized by the following: constant monitoring of and response to student understanding; effective use of technology to enhance teaching and learning; frequent opportunities for students to read and respond rigorously to challenging texts; and intentional incorporation of character instruction in both lesson content and design.
• Actively build an understanding of each student as an individual to ensure cura personalis (care for the whole person); forge strong, respectful relationships with students and parents, and communicate frequently with families to increase the investment and partnership that will enable students to flourish at Cristo Rey.
• Help define, and consistently uphold, school-wide practices, routines, and norms for student behavior consistent with the school's philosophy of respect, support, and high expectations.
• Maintain an organized and vibrant classroom environment that supports student learning and conveys warmth, order, and a feeling of welcome; prioritize and manage time effectively to follow through on the diverse responsibilities of being an excellent teacher.

Professional Presence.

• Approach teaching through a developmental lens and enthusiastically participate in professional development; seek and apply feedback from the instructional leadership and from colleagues in the interest of growth; demonstrate drive and independence in accessing resources to further your own improvement.
• Contribute fully, intentionally, and constructively to the team in a range of contexts: analyzing student work and performance data, identifying students in need of additional support, problem-solving unanticipated challenges that arise within the school; collaborate with integrity, humility, commitment, and joy to ensure the foundation of trust that will enable the team to accomplish its ambitious goals.
• Embrace the team's goals and the results we achieve as the collective responsibility of the entire faculty and staff; collaborate with colleagues to maximize the team's impact; seek opportunities to push the team, to laugh with colleagues, and to recognize and celebrate your peers' accomplishments.
• Engage students and parents with respect, fairness, and empathy to enable full partnership with the school.
• Model values consistent with Catholic, Jesuit education and service to others

School Leadership.

• With support from the administration, lead the development and oversight of one core, supplementary role (Campus Minister, Co-curricular and Athletics Coordinator, Academic Assistance Program Coordinator, etc.).
• Provide tutoring through the Academic Assistance Program, or manage a study hall one period per day.
• Actively monitor transitions, meals, and/or other common times to ensure a calm and orderly environment; chaperone and moderate school events, including trips, and dances.
• Run an advisory book club each day, assist advisees through their developmental journey at Cristo Rey, and serve as a point of contact for advisees' parents.
• Seek areas of growth for the school, and volunteer where possible to help coach, manage a club, plan a school-wide event, or otherwise contribute to the life of the school.

Qualifications. Successful applicants will embody the mission-commitment, intellectual curiosity, openness to growth, optimism, and zest that are central to the character of our founding faculty. In addition, they will meet or exceed the following requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with a major, minor, or comparable credential of content expertise in the primary teaching discipline (master's degree in primary teaching discipline preferred):
• Teaching license in the primary teaching discipline or demonstrable progress towards obtaining licensure;
• Record of strong student achievement as a middle school or high school teacher;
• Proficiency using technology to advance teaching and learning;
• Experience working with English language learners is a plus.

Disclaimer:

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School provides equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, or national origin.