2025-2026 English Learner Program Teacher

Job Details

Job Location: Chicago High School for the Arts - Chicago, IL 60622Position Type: Teacher Staff Full Time

The Chicago High School for the Arts seeks an English Learner Program Teacher in the Academic Department for the 2025-2026 school year.

Job Identification: 

Title: English Learner Program Teacher

Department: Academic

Classification: Full-Time

 

General Summary: 

We are ChiArts. Chicago's first public arts high school. The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts®) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum. Over 2,500 hours of tuition-free, pre-professional arts training are provided to every scholar-artist from freshman year to graduation. Our alumni are pioneers – as scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers, and from millions of plays on Spotify, to touring with a dance company, to published writing, to making art that challenges and entertains us on stage and screen, they are blazing new pathways.

Position Overview:

ChiArts seeks a passionate and highly organized English Learner Program Teacher (ELPT) to support and advocate for our multilingual learners (MLs). The ELPT plays a critical role in ensuring the proper identification, placement, and service delivery of ELs and serves as a liaison between staff, administration, families, and CPS's Office of Language and Cultural Education (OLCE). This individual will coordinate all compliance-related activities, support instructional best practices for ELs, and promote a culturally responsive learning environment.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

Program Coordination

• Administer and oversee State-mandated English language screeners (WIDA Screener, Pre-IPT, etc.) within required timeframes
• Enter screener results and update EL profiles in Aspen accurately and timely
• Coordinate ACCESS testing and submit relevant documentation (e.g., Not Tested Reasons)
• Ensure timely distribution and translation of CPS Parent Notification Letters
• Collaborate with special education staff to ensure ELs with IEPs are served appropriately
• Attend and share updates from OLCE ELPT professional development sessions
• Maintain documentation for EL Program Reviews and mandated PD for ESL/Bilingual staff
• Coordinate bilingual summer program enrollment and reporting
• Monitor progress of current ELs, Transition students (T1–T4), and students with parent refusals

Instructional Leadership

• Collaborate with administration, ILT, and content teachers to support rigorous, differentiated instruction aligned with CCSS and WIDA ELD standards
• Provide coaching and instructional support to teachers of ELs on best practices and MTSS interventions
• Assist in development of standards-aligned unit/lesson plans
• Ensure ELs receive appropriate instructional accommodations for district and state assessments
• Provide ESL or Bilingual instruction if needed

Advisory and Community Engagement

• Support accurate and equitable placement of ELs into appropriate services (TBE/TPI)
• Facilitate establishment and operations of the Bilingual Advisory Committee (BAC), including elections, meeting documentation, spending plan approvals, and parent engagement
• Provide EL guidance and collaborate with the principal, case manager, and school staff
• Support family engagement efforts and facilitate communication and resources for families of ELs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL) with Bilingual and/or ESL Endorsement (required)
• Knowledge of WIDA ELD Standards, CCSS, CPS EL policy, and MTSS