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Carlisle Public Schools - Job Opportunities
Carlisle Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion or religious creed, disability or handicap, sex or gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
All employees are required to submit to a national fingerprint-based criminal background check in addition to a state CORI check.
School Nurse (LPN)
Carlisle Public Schools is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our school health team beginning August 25, 2025. The ideal candidate will provide high-quality, primary and emergency health care to students, working under the supervision of the School Nurse, Principal, and Director of Student Services.
This position involves both direct and indirect nursing care, health maintenance, education, and social-emotional support—while contributing to a safe and healthy learning environment. This is a 35 hour per week position, during school days.
Key Responsibilities: The LPN will work collaboratively with our school RN with the following responsibilities:
- Provide nursing care based on student and staff needs, in accordance with Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing standards.
- Follow all health policies of the district, MA Department of Public Health, and DESE.
- Assist with the management of chronic health needs (e.g., diabetes, asthma, allergies).
- Administer medication in compliance with 105 CMR 210.
- Deliver first aid and emergency care for illness or injury.
- Notify families of illness/injuries occurring during school hours.
- Maintain accurate and confidential electronic health records.
- Support student screenings and communicable disease prevention efforts.
- Educate students, families, and staff on infection control practices.
- Communicate relevant medical information to teachers and staff.
- Participate in field trips as needed (in line with DPH guidelines).
- Perform skilled nursing procedures safely and effectively.
- Maintain and organize medical equipment and supplies.
- Other duties as assigned by the School RN, Director of Student Services, Principal, or School Nurse.
Required Qualifications:
- Current, valid LPN license issued by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.
- Current CPR and First Aid certification (recognized provider).
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport with students, staff, and families.
- Strong organizational skills
Experience in pediatric or school nursing settings.
If interested, please apply through School Spring - School Nurse (LPN)
Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, Grade 7
Carlisle Public Schools is seeking a dynamic and passionate Middle School English Language Arts Teacher to join our dedicated team of educators in grade 7. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE) teaching position at Carlisle Middle School, starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
The ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment and the skillful ability to engage and inspire middle school students in their journey to becoming effective communicators and critical thinkers. Applicants must have a comprehensive understanding of a literacy-centered middle school curriculum and early adolescent development, and the ability to inspire and educate middle school students to achieve academic excellence.
Primary Job Responsibilities
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
• Foster a love for reading, writing, and effective communication through innovative and interactive teaching methods.
• Create a positive and inclusive classroom atmosphere that encourages student participation and collaboration.
• Design and implement a comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum for grade 7 students that aligns with the ELA Curriculum Frameworks from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and also supports the Carlisle Public School’s vision, mission, and Portrait of a Graduate.
• Teach engaging lesson plans that cater to all ability levels for early adolescent students by differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.
• Assess students’ understanding regularly with appropriate learning goals in mind, taking ownership of making necessary adjustments to align with the requirements of IEPs and 504s.
• Scaffold and differentiate instruction so as to support all students in complex thinking, rigorous academic work, and active participation.
• Build a productive learning environment where every student participates and is valued as part of the class community.
• Create cognitively demanding tasks and model the belief that all students can master challenging material through effective effort.
Assessment and Feedback
• Regularly assess student progress using a variety of assessment tools, such as Star Renaissance Reading, MCAS, and other formative and summative assessments.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to students, and collaborate with colleagues to analyze assessment data for continuous improvement.
• Use assessment data to adjust instructional strategies accordingly and to plan and implement targeted interventions in small group tier 2 settings.
Collaboration, Parent, & Community Engagement
• Be a flexible and reflective grade-level team member
• Establish open and effective communication with parents/guardians to keep them informed about student progress and classroom activities.
• Actively participate in parent-teacher conferences and other related school events for the wider parent community.
• Collaborate with members of the English Language Arts Department and Special Education departments and CPS faculty (K-8) to support student learning and growth using shared lesson materials and assessments.
• Actively engage in ongoing professional development to stay current with best practices in education.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within the English department and among the middle school faculty and CPS district as a whole.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree, or higher, in Middle School Education preferred, or English, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• Valid Massachusetts teaching license in grade 7.
• Strong knowledge of English Language Arts (ELA), grammar, and writing conventions appropriate for skill development for early adolescent learners.
• Ability and desire to work collaboratively with colleagues and parents.
If interested, please apply through School Spring - Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, Grade 7
Science Teacher, Grade 8
Carlisle Public Schools is seeking a dynamic and passionate Middle School Science Teacher to join our dedicated team of educators in grade 8. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE) teaching position at Carlisle Middle School, starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment and the skillful ability to engage and inspire middle school students in their journey to becoming effective communicators and critical thinkers. Applicants must have a comprehensive understanding of middle school science curriculum and early adolescent development, and the ability to inspire and educate middle school students to achieve academic excellence.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
Teaching and Learning
1. Create a positive and inclusive classroom atmosphere that encourages student participation, collaboration, and scientific inquiry by implementing a “learning-by-doing” approach that engages students as active learners and makes science come alive in ways that research has shown best supports the broad range of learners.
2. Facilitate student-centered investigation of questions relevant to their own daily lives by conducting experiments, collecting and analyzing data, developing and using models to explain phenomena, and engaging in evidence-based discussions.
3. Assess students’ understanding regularly with appropriate learning goals in mind, taking ownership of making necessary modifications to align with the requirements of IEPs and 504s.
4. Scaffold and differentiate instruction to support all students in complex thinking, rigorous academic work, and active participation, and implement the Carlisle Public School’s vision, mission, and Portrait of a Graduate.
5. Build a productive learning environment where every student participates and is valued as part of the class community.
6. Create cognitively demanding tasks and model the belief that all students can master challenging material through effective effort.
Curriculum, Assessment, and Feedback
1. Design and implement a comprehensive Science curriculum for grade 8 students that aligns with the Science Curriculum Frameworks from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, using core units of the IQWST curriculum
2. Teach engaging lesson plans, specifically focusing on Earth, Life, and Physical sciences that include concepts of exploratory learning and hands-on learning, that cater to all ability levels for early adolescent students by differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners, specifically:
a.Earth Science Unit: How Is the Earth Changing? Students investigate how the Earth has changed in the past and continues to change today, learning how the theory of plate tectonics was developed through the social processes of evidence gathering, modeling, and explanation in the scientific community. Students explore the modern explanation for why plates move on Earth’s surface by applying their understanding of convection to the Earth’s mantle. They uncover how these internal earth processes drive plate motion and how that motion leads to events, such as earthquakes and eruptions, and shape major surface features on Earth, including volcanoes, mountain ranges, islands, and oceanic trenches.
b.Physical Science Unit: How Will It Move? This unit focuses on forces and motion in a variety of contexts: tug-of-war, baseball, planetary motion, chemical bonds, and others. Students generalize from specific examples to construct principles commonly known as Newton’s laws of motion. The differences between force and energy are emphasized and the crosscutting concepts of system models, energy and matter are addressed. The unit integrates several focal scientific practices: planning and carrying out investigations; data gathering, organization, and analysis; developing and using models; constructing explanations, and engaging in argument from evidence.
c.Life Science Unit: Why Do Organisms Look The Way They Do? Students study how similarities and differences between individuals and populations are influenced by the inheritance of traits. Students examine how changing environmental conditions can influence variation in a population. Students generalize their explanations to develop a model of natural selection as defined by naturally occurring variation in inherited traits, changing environmental conditions and differential survival, addressing most notably the crosscutting concepts of patterns, and of stability and change in systems.
d.Chemistry Unit: How Does Food Provide My Body with Energy? Students study chemical reactions and the energy transformations associated with them and address their relevance in their own lives and to their own bodies. Students investigate food at the molecular level and explore how cellular respiration, as a chemical reaction, allows organisms to use the energy in food. They also examine photosynthesis as the chemical reaction in which plants transform light energy into chemical energy to store in food. Finally, following the flow of matter and energy, students consider what happens in a system during cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
3. Regularly assess student progress using a variety of assessment tools
4. Provide timely and constructive feedback to students, and collaborate with colleagues to analyze assessment data for continuous improvement.
Collaboration, Parent, & Community Engagement
1. Establish open and effective communication with parents/guardians to keep them informed about student progress and classroom activities.
2. Actively participate in parent-teacher conferences and other related school events for the wider parent community.
3. Collaborate with members of the Science Department as well as the Special Education Department and wider CPS faculty (K-8) to support student learning and growth using shared lesson materials and assessments.
4. Actively engage in ongoing professional development to stay current with best practices in education.
5. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within the Science department and among the middle school faculty and CPS district as a whole.
Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree, or higher, in Middle School Education preferred, or Science, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
2. Valid Massachusetts teaching license in grade 8 science.
3. Strong background knowledge of science.
4. Ability and desire to work collaboratively with colleagues and parents.
If interested, please apply through School Spring - Science Teacher, Grade 8
Permanent Daily Substitute
Carlisle Public Schools is seeking a Permanent Daily Substitute for the 2024-2025 school year. Permanent Substitutes work either the middle school schedule from 7:35 AM - 2:22 PM or the elementary school schedule from 8:35 AM - 3:05 PM. The Permanent Substitute reports to the main office at the pre-assigned time to receive a schedule of coverage for the school day. Coverage may be for a teacher or paraprofessional. Candidates do not need to hold a Massachusetts teachers’ license.
If interested, please apply through School Spring - Permanent Daily Substitute
Substitute School Nurse
Carlisle Public School is seeking substitute school nurses to provide coverage of school health office when
permanent nursing staff are unavailable. The substitute school nurse is responsible for implementing the school
health program in the absence of the permanent school nurse, and/or will be responsible for providing health
services to students who are participating in school sponsored field trips. The substitute nurse will provide first aid
to students Pre-K through grade 8, and staff, including, administering medications, performing ordered treatments,
caring for illness and documentation in accordance with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts laws and the policies
and procedures of the Carlisle School District.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assess students daily visits, evaluate health status and provides care according to Carlisle Public Schools
Standing orders and/or follow student individualized healthcare plans.
- Administers first-aid and emergency care.
- Demonstrates effective communication with students, staff members, and parents and able to maintain
confidentiality.
- Dispenses daily & afternoon medications according to standard nursing practice to students at school with proper
documentation.
- Collaborate with teachers, and/or parents regarding students identified for exclusion due to medical
reasons.
- Communicate with school personnel in identifying and meeting social, emotional, and physical needs of
school children in English. Documents health care in electronic student data management system.
- Assist in maintaining a healthy, safe, learning environment by promoting Universal Precautions.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Possession of a valid Commonwealth of Massachusetts license to practice as a Registered Nurses (RN).
- Experience in a school based or pediatric setting is preferred.
- Ability to multitask, problem solve and make clinical judgements independently.
If interested, please apply through School Spring - Substitute School Nurse
Daily Substitute Teachers
Carlisle Public Schools seeks daily substitute teachers for elementary and middle school. If interested, please contact Elementary Principal Dennet Sidell at dsidell@carlisle.k12.ma.us.