We want to maximize your opportunity to interview with partners which is why we have shared such a wide range of assignments with you. You’ll have the opportunity to express preferences including subject, grade level, and geography. Our team will walk you through the hiring landscape during a Hiring Webinar in early 2023. You will not be able to know the exact grade/subject you will be teaching until you are hired due to the broad assignments in which you are eligible to teach under. So, we ask all corps members to be open minded and flexible given our commitment should be to going where we are truly needed the most. 

The first hiring round will ramp up in February. There are two formal hiring rounds through June. Hiring will continue throughout the summer (during summer training, and into August and September).

Last spring we moved all interviews to be held virtually due to COVID-19 and it will remain this way for the upcoming hiring season. We match your resume to our partner schools based on your qualifications, their open positions, and your preferences (if applicable). Then, the school reviews your resume and may conduct a phone/video interview. After that, you go on a final virtual interview, which may require a demonstration lesson. 

We share hiring results soon after the hiring round. Based on your license area, preferences, and where students need you, you will be strategically matched to interview with partner schools. Because of this, if you receive one offer after the hiring round, you are officially hired at that school. Corps members who receive multiple offers after a hiring round may choose which offer they will accept. 

We first review the license area you are assigned to and the vacancies available at the school partners participating in the hiring round. It is important that corps members are matched to vacancies that align with the license areas they are eligible to teach to ensure they are eligible for the position as determined by New York State. We then take into account your preferences in your Hiring Survey, which you fill out within the first few weeks of confirming your offer, and during the hiring process you will be able to select 1-2 schools you want to be matched with. While we will listen to and try our best to honor some preferences, we also need to balance the needs of our students and school partners. 

You will receive a Hiring Survey within a bi-weekly digest within 2-4 weeks of confirming your offer. In the Hiring Survey, you will be able to share your preferences and any other information you'd like our hiring team to know.

When determining your hiring path, we prioritize two major things:

• Placement limitations: we have to determine what you are eligible to teach in New York State, based on your undergraduate coursework. From there, we are given strict guidance from the NYC Department of Education about where and what our corps members should teach.

• Needs of our partners: We have to be responsive to the open positions that partners have.

Once we take these two things into account, we then see where we can meet any preferences you've shared with us. Ahead of each formal hiring round (Round 1 & 2), you'll also have the opportunity to choose 1-2 schools with which you'd like to interview. Of course, these schools must have vacancies aligned to your hiring pathway. 

Once a corps member receives an offer in a hiring round, they are not eligible to participate in future hiring rounds as they are considered hired. If a corps member does not receive an offer in a hiring round, they are eligible to participate in future hiring rounds until they receive an offer. 

While we are never able to guarantee placement for corps members, because it is ultimately your responsibility to secure an offer, we are extremely confident in our ability to place our corps. The entire 2022 corps was hired weeks before the first day of school this year. While you are able to express your preferences, the reason you see such a broad assignment is because we must be responsive to the need in our city and we work closely with corps members and partner schools to place teachers in classrooms where they can maximize their impact.

There are two formal hiring rounds that occur before summer training in June. Over the summer, we see a shift in the pace of hiring as partners are finalizing their staffing needs and sharing their vacancies with us daily. While there may be opportunities to be hired before institute, it is very normal to not have a position until late summer. 

Even though the entire 2021 and 2022 corps were placed weeks before the first day of school, we don't give up on the first day of school. We continue working to get our corps members hired with a window of about 4-6 weeks after the first day of school. For 2020 corps members we were able to pay as much as 6 weeks of salary if a corps member was not hired by the start of school to continue working to place them. If we are unable to place you within the region, our team will work to find alternate placements and we will support you in navigating your options. Please know, though, that we are confident in this moment with our ability to place you which is why we are moving forward with a 2023 New York corps. 

We partner with 100+ amazing schools across the four boroughs – Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. We partner with charter schools, district schools, and Early Education Centers (EECs). See below for a breakdown of corps member geography and school type. 

For our 2022 corps: 58% teach in the Bronx, 20% teach in Manhattan, 19% teach in Brooklyn, and 3% teach in Queens. Please note that the majority of our Manhattan placements are ECE placements, so there are limited vacancies for other license areas in Manhattan.

Given that our partners can vary from year to year, we are not able to share a list of partner schools as we do not want to give the impression that all the schools we partner with now will be partners in the upcoming school year. We partner with a variety of district schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, some larger charter management organizations, independent charter schools, and early education centers (EECs) for our early childhood cohort. During each hiring round, we will be able to share a list of partner schools who are participating in that round and the vacancies they have available, if known. 

• District schools are sometimes called "traditional public schools". Elementary school students in district schools generally attend schools that are closest to where they live. For middle and high school, students and families have choices. Some schools are close to home while others require students to travel across the city. Overwhelmingly, the need in the district is for special education, math, and science teachers. In partnership, the DOE shares with us where there may be a shortage of teachers and therefore our corps members interview for these high-needs areas only. For more: NYC DOE website

• Charter schools are public schools that are independently operated. Some are organized into a network of multiple schools and others are individual schools. Charter schools vary in instructional mission and approach, but all our partner schools serve low-income students of color. Many utilize some of the following elements: longer school day and school year, staff training in the summer, or school on Saturdays. For more: NYC Charter School website

• Early Education Centers (EECs): in 2014, there was a major expansion in early childhood across the city to ensure all families have access to quality early learning. We have a high need for outstanding teachers in ECE to teach our youngest students in classrooms for ages three through five. These corps members teach in Early Education Centers (EEC). For more: NYC Early Childhood website

There is no such thing as a “typical” teaching position as New York City schools reflect a wide variety of settings, structures, and approaches to teaching and supporting our students. To best meet the needs of students, schools think creatively about how they structure classrooms which means that there may be multiple adults in the room. Special education teachers are often in either a co-teaching or pull-out setting. Many charter schools also use these structures in general education classrooms, including the lead teacher/assistant teacher model. See below for a breakdown of our current corps members' license areas. 

Please review the resources below and also sign up to connect with MoMo during their office hours via calendly. 

• ECE: Please review this ECE resource to learn more about our ECE cohort. 

• SPED: Please review this SPED resource to learn more about teaching SPED in NYC.

• D79: Corps members are able to opt-in to being considered for D79 placements when they complete their Hiring Survey, which you will receive a few weeks after you confirm your offer. However, D79 placements are within the NYC DOE, so until we learn more about our ability to place corps members there this year, we cannot guarantee D79 vacancies will be available. To learn more about the D79 placement, please review this D79 resource.

Corps members are employed directly by their school/district. Because of this, they receive the same salary as any other first year teacher.  Although rent and other living costs in New York City are high compared to those throughout the rest of the country, a beginning teacher’s salary is also relatively high. 

• The starting salary for Department of Education district school teachers is currently $61,070. 

  • Teachers hired in the district can reference the NYC DOE salary + benefits to determine where they may fall. These teachers must connect with the DOE directly if they believe they should start on a higher step. 

• Salaries/benefits for charter school corps members range from $55,000-$80,000.

  • For corps members hired in charter schools, your salary and benefits will be communicated to you directly from your school. 

• Early Childhood Education (ECE) salaries typically range from $55,651-$63,000 with most teachers receiving $61,100 per year.  

  • For corps members hired in Early Education Centers, your salary and benefits will be communicated to you directly from your school. 

Starting salaries are set by partner schools who often take prior experience and level of education into consideration. Teachers who earn on their upper end of the range traditionally have past teaching experience or advanced degrees in teaching.

Corps members will have full medical benefits through their schools. Please keep in mind that benefits are available after the first day of school, regardless of if a corps member is hired in a DOE, charter, or EEC. Corps members should plan accordingly for insurance needs and finances over the summer.

• Corps members hired in DOE schools will receive the same benefits as all other DOE teachers and can reference the NYC DOE salary + benefits for more information.

• Corps members hired in public charter schools or Early Education Center (EEC) will receive benefits offered by their individual school or site.