Ascend Public Charter Schools

The mission of Ascend Charter Schools is to equip every student with the knowledge, confidence, and character to succeed in college and beyond. Our students will, from the earliest grades, steadily build a strong foundation of learning habits, critical thinking skills, and knowledge; excel academically in the middle and high schools; and graduate as confident young adults, prepared to succeed as college students, citizens, and leaders in their chosen fields.

Join the warm, collaborative, and diverse community of professionals who strive to make a difference. Six reasons why extraordinary educators choose Ascend.

#1 Focus on character development as well as student achievement

Academic achievement is important, but we also care about our students’ character. Ascend provides a warm, supportive, joyful culture where the focus is on learning, problem-solving, and above all, personal responsibility.

The decision to move away from a proscriptive disciplinary model, with its frequent high rate of referrals and suspensions, and toward a responsive and restorative approach, provides our students with the confidence to powerfully engage in our rigorous liberal arts learning environment and provides our teachers with a happy place to work.

#2 An enriched, liberal arts, Common Core curriculum

Ascend schools deliver an exciting, challenging, well-rounded, inquiry-based curriculum that develops students’ full academic, social, artistic, scientific, and ethical potentials. Our teachers shift the intellectual work to students and encourage them to think creatively and deeply about how to solve problems. Ascend scholars will grow to become lifelong learners and informed citizens.

• Watch our videos and see our liberal arts approach in action.
• Visit our lower school, middle school, and high school program pages.
• Read a recent article in The Atlantic about how Ascend uses culture and creative expression to teach the Common Core Standards.

#3 Commitment to shared mission

The Ascend mission is clear – to close the achievement gap and ensure that all our students gain the skills necessary to succeed in college, career, and life. Our teachers and leaders collaborate as one team to share their love of learning and to push, equip, and inspire our scholars toward excellence. We have exceptionally high expectations for our scholars, and for each other, and we are relentless in our commitment to making sure our scholars have every opportunity to succeed. See The Ascend Approach.

#4  Growth opportunities

A teaching job at Ascend is a great place to start! Ascend’s career pathways program offers opportunities for highly effective teachers to grow into leadership positions as grade-level team leaders, mentor teachers, deans of students, or deans of instruction. Our teachers and leaders receive individualized coaching, resources, and tools, and participate in weekly Teacher Planning and Development sessions to help deepen and improve their craft. Read more about how we provide the best for our students by providing the best support for our teachers.

#5 A beautiful environment

We believe that our physical environment should reflect the incredible accomplishments that are achieved within our walls. All Ascend schools are housed in privately leased and newly renovated buildings where every detail is chosen to communicate our aspirations for teaching and learning. See inside Our School Buildings.

#6 Every voice matters

We believe in continually improving and developing our schools to achieve exceptional outcomes for our students and their families. We actively encourage our teachers to be part of that development process. Our faculty and staff are surveyed several times a year, town halls are held at each school to hear directly from teachers and to capture your ideas, and we solicit ongoing feedback about our curriculum and Teacher Planning and Development sessions.

Apply now to teach at Ascend!

Join a team commited to meeting the needs of all students. 

We seek to build a team of enthusiastic, self-motivated special education teachers who are excited to engage with students and their families. Our programs feature an inclusive model with push-in and pull- out interventions for both reading and math, supplemental evidence-based special education curricula, a strong-tiered system of academic and behavior support, and targeted, ongoing special education professional development. We will train, support, and collaborate with you every step of the way, providing you with the tools, resources, coaching, and collaboration to achieve your highest potential and to help you support scholars who need it most.

Join a team of math teachers and educators committed to developing a new generation of highly skilled, flexible problem-solvers who enjoy interpreting the world mathematically and are capable of achieving at the highest levels.

We look for teachers who are eager to share their passion for the beauty and joy of math through instruction that is both intellectually engaging and relevant to students’ daily lives. At Ascend, you’ll gain a community of like-minded colleagues and a culture of ongoing professional growth. We will train, support, and collaborate with you every step of the way, providing you with the tools, resources, and coaching to achieve your highest potential.