2025-2026 High School History Teacher

Washington, DC
Full Time
Teacher
Mid Level

History/ Social Studies Teacher
 

Position Summary:

GGA is an all-girls public charter school committed to empowering young women through rigorous academics, strong character development, and leadership opportunities. We are seeking a passionate and dedicated History Teacher to join our team and foster a love of learning, critical thinking, and civic engagement in our students.

Key Expectations:

  • GGA instructors submit lesson plans weekly. Lesson plans are reviewed by the Academic Program Coordinator and feedback is provided.
  • Advisory classes are an important part of school culture at GGA. Students work on college and career readiness, social and emotional learning and academics in these daily classes. The advisor is an important part of a student's support network at GGA, and most instructors are assigned an advisory class. Advisory lessons are provided and the instructor facilitates sessions, grades assignments, and maintains a strong relationship and line of communication with advisees' caregivers. 
  • Culture support in the hallways and at lunch is expected. Instructors are assigned an arrival and dismissal duty, and are added to a master schedule to support hallways for one period everyday.
  • At GGA we believe that we are partners in education with our student's caregivers. Together we support students and ensure they achieve their fullest potential. To do this, GGA gives dedicated work time on a Wednesday to reach out to caregivers. It is expected that instructors maintain continued lines of communication with caregivers through grading, calling and emailing home and facilitating twice annual Student Led Conferences.
  • Ensure you have at least 2 grades for every week, 2 summatives for the quarter and end of quarter comments

Key Responsibilities

Instruction & Student Support

  • Plan and deliver engaging, standards-based lessons in History (e.g., U.S. History, World History).
  • Plans and delivers dynamic, standards-aligned history lessons that cultivate critical thinking, analysis, and a deep understanding of historical events and their impact on the modern world.
  • Develops cohesive unit and lesson plans aligned with GGA’s curriculum framework, emphasizing inquiry, evidence-based reasoning, and diverse historical perspectives.
  • Uses student data and formative feedback to guide instructional decisions, ensuring that all students are engaged, challenged, and supported in their learning journey.
  • Designs and implements a variety of formative and summative assessments that measure content mastery, historical reasoning, and the development of civic and global awareness.
  • Integrates interdisciplinary connections between history, literature, art, science, and global issues to help students make meaningful links between the past and present.
  • Encourages student-led discussions, debates, and research projects that build confidence, voice, and leadership, particularly in examining the role of women and underrepresented groups in shaping history.
  • Incorporates culturally responsive pedagogy that affirms diverse experiences and fosters empathy, perspective-taking, and civic engagement among young women.

Learning and Development

  • Plans and teaches lessons using inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning
  • Uses a wide range of technologies and strategies to differentiate instruction based on readiness, learning difference, and interest.
  • Uses student data to drive instructional decisions
  • Contributes to interdisciplinary curriculum planning and development
  • Fosters positive relationships with students
  • Develops regular communication protocols with parents
  • Delivers thoughtful guidance and support with advisory groups
  • Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
  • Keeps up-to-date records of attendance, curriculum, and assessment
  • Develops and implements assessments aligned to GGA curriculum standards
  • Demonstrates an active and genuine interest in professional growth

School Community Engagement

  • Fosters positive relationships with students
  • Develops regular communication protocols with parents
  • Delivers thoughtful guidance and support with advisory groups
  • Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
  • Participate in weekly and month professional development programs
  • Creating classroom experiences that embody our four pillars of sisterhood, scholarship, service and safety including establishing strong relationships with students to demonstrate care
  • Foster deeply engaging lessons and activities that deliver the content in ways that excite and enable our students to learn
  • Use resources to effectively differentiate for all types of learners through co-teaching with special education teachers and through providing students additional resources

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, (Master’s preferred) with a concentration in content area
  • Secondary classroom experience in an urban context (three years preferred)
  • Solid and demonstrable teaching experience working with a variety of student academic levels
  • Creative and enthusiastic approach to teaching and learning
  • Ability to write a cohesive lesson plan
  • Exhibits ability to collaboratively work within and across disciplines with a diverse instructional team
  • Demonstrates ability to work with parents and community
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, classroom management, and adaptive teaching
  • Lead extra-curricular activities during and/or after school
  • Receive and incorporate feedback from team leaders, executive leadership and peers
  • Growth minded, receiving and incorporating feedback from team leaders, executive leadership and peers

Girls Global Academy is a community of dedicated innovators who believe girls matter. Through our daily work, we are committed to actions that equip the next generation of leaders to navigate the world with confidence and compassion to succeed in any path they may choose. Our approach to education will allow girls to develop strong voices that inspire change.

Because you matter - this is who we are looking for:

  • You are highly qualified and mission oriented
  • You are passionate about all girls’ high school education
  • You are flexible and adaptable to change and excited about working in a start-up school environment
  • You are a self-starter, problem solver and have a growth mindset
  • You are committed to assisting the school becoming Tier 1

If you meet these ideals - we want to speak with you about joining our team!

History/ Social Studies Teacher

Teachers at GGA are responsible for creating and sustaining an empowering, progressive environment where students have multiple opportunities to flourish academically, socially and personally.  Teachers report to the Principal and provide instruction in content areas.

Qualifications

  • Certification in Social Studies or relevant field
  • Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) with a concentration in a content area
  • Secondary classroom experience in an urban context (three years preferred)
  • Solid and demonstrable teaching experience working with a variety of student academic levels
  • Creative and enthusiastic approach to teaching and learning
  • Exhibits the ability to collaboratively work within and across disciplines with a diverse instructional team
  • Experience working with parents and community
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, classroom management, and adaptive teaching
  • Growth minded, receiving and incorporating feedback from team leaders, executive leadership and peers

Key Responsibilities

Teacher Duties and Responsibilities

Instructional Planning and Implementation

  • Contributes to interdisciplinary curriculum planning and development
  • Develops and implements assessments aligned to GGA curriculum standards
  • Uses student data to drive instructional decisions
  • Writes a cohesive lesson plan

Learning and Development

  • Plans and teaches lessons using inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning
  • Uses a wide range of technologies and strategies to differentiate instruction based on readiness, learning difference, and interest.
  • Keeps up-to-date records of attendance, curriculum, and assessment

Community Engagement

  • Fosters positive relationships with students
  • Develops regular communication protocols with parents
  • Delivers thoughtful guidance and support with advisory groups
  • Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
  • Lead extra-curricular activities during and/or after school

Create Classroom Experiences that Embody Our Pillars of Learning

  • Learning by doing - include examples, what does this look like 

About Our School 

Girls Global Academy (GGA) is an all-girls public charter high school in Washington, DC. Our school’s program has three primary focuses:  

  1. International Baccalaureate academics, combined with distinctive engineering and business pathways;
  2. A school culture that values all learners by working daily to fulfill the four promises of sisterhood, scholarship, service and safety;
  3. Service learning projects that extend rigorous academics to provide experiences outside the classroom.

Our Staff:

You will be an integral part of our school, empowered to take ownership over the work and have a responsibility to each of our students. You are truly a part of resilient team that has an all-hands-on-deck mentality and faces challenges head on with clear communication. Our students need dedicated teachers that believe in our students, maintain strong community norms for interpersonal interactions, and in our four pillars of sisterhood, scholarship, service, safety. 

Our Commitments to Staff: 

  • Personalized professional development tailored to your needs as an educator 
  • Support and coaching from an experienced leadership team
  • A seat at the table where you are a decision maker in an equitable and inclusive environment
  • Work-life rhythm where you are encouraged to make self care a priority

How to Apply  

Please submit your application to our online jobs portal. All applicants will have to pass a background check. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. No phone calls, please. 

Girls Global Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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