Escuela Avancemos Academy
Current Positions
Elementary Teacher
Detroit, Michigan•Full-time
Math Interventionist
Detroit, Michigan•Full-time
Instructional Coach
Detroit, Michigan•Full-time
Our Values
Educates with Love
EA Academy (Escuela Avancemos) is a K-8 Public School Academy school located in the heart of Southwest Detroit. Our school “educates with love” by providing a unique experience for students through a "whole child" framework. This unique approach incorporates a full-service community model that aims to close the achievement gap through extensive and targeted services to support and empower the local community, families, and students it serves. Escuela Avancemos values and upholds restorative principles, academic rigor, dual language acquisition, and community engagement strategies to inspire students to be critical thinkers and succeed at the highest level.
Our Culture
Every student, every day. As an employee of Escuela Avancemos Academy, these are words that you and your teammates will live by. We meet our students where they are, but our belief about where they can and will go is boundless.
Why Join Escuela Avancemos Team?
Why Join Escuela Avancemos Team?
Every student, every day. As an employee of Escuela Avancemos Academy, these are words that you and your teammates will live by. We meet our students where they are, but our belief about where they can and will go is boundless.
Our students are the best part of our job.
We serve a diverse community in Southwest Detroit and take pride in the cultural heritage of our neighborhood students.
- We lead our work through strong relationships with our kids and focus on the whole child.
- We aim to achieve academic excellence for every student, and we also equip them with the soft skills they will need to succeed in a rapidly evolving world.
- We believe in inspiring our students - but more often than not, they inspire us.
We support you to meet the challenges of our work.
Our staff is collaborative and lifts one another up. Teachers often reference their admiration for one another and feel proud to be working together.
- Our administrators are here to support you. We act with empathy toward our staff and pride ourselves on seeking out their feedback. When there is room for us to grow, we work hard to understand and respond as quickly as we can.
- Our parents are eager to engage. We host a variety of parent events and classes throughout the year and love to see our parents in high attendance.
We are committed to furthering your growth as an education professional.
We provide two weeks of intensive professional development in the summer as well as biweekly PD built into the instructional day each year.
- We provide opportunities to attend local and out-of-state workshops and conferences to help our teaching staff stay at the top of their game.
- We provide individualized weekly coaching sessions so that you can further accelerate your own particular skills and strengths.
- We provide two-monthly early release Wednesdays for teachers to participate in collaboration workshops and planning to increase student academic growth.
If you join us at Escuela, you will be compensated competitively.
- You will have the opportunity to earn merit pay on top of our competitive base salary.
- You will have access to a comprehensive benefits package for the employee, spouse, and dependent children at subsidized rates.
- You will have two weeks of paid personal time off, school breaks including summer vacation.
Our Team
Every student, every day. As an employee of Escuela Avancemos Academy, these are words that you and your teammates will live by. We meet our students where they are, but our belief about where they can and will go is boundless.