Join the Achieving Excellence Academy (AEA) Team –

We're Growing!

The Achieving Excellence Academy (AEA) Cultural Summer Program is expanding, and we are excited to welcome talented professionals to our growing team for the 2024-25 school year. If you're passionate about supporting students and making a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

Now Hiring:

• Front Office Support/Family Liaison (Spanish-Bilingual preferred)
• Licensed Practical Nurse
• Affinity Community Partner

We are seeking highly qualified individuals who are committed to excellence, collaboration, and helping students achieve their full potential.

AEA Misson

The AEA summer program will serve as an immersive 4-week cultural identity and ethnic studies program on Black/African-American, Latino/a/LatinX, and Asian American/Pacific Islander/AAPI students, families, and educators. The program serves as one district initiative especially for the support, encouragement, and development of students of marginalized identities, and all rising 9th through rising 12th graders are welcome to apply. experiences and ancestral histories. This space will provide opportunities to unpack and explore varied racial, social, historic, and modern civic complexities facing marginalized populations and communities in the 21st Century. The AEA is a purposeful program to address current efforts to strengthen student achievement, elevate student voices, and to provide the encouragement and support students’ need to grow their cultural and racial identities and understandings. 

AEA Vision 

The AEA envisions a future where marginalized identities, and their attributes and talents are regularly celebrated. The AEA cultural summer program is one opportunity for students to develop within community, to see themselves in the curriculum, and to be represented in the faces of other students, teachers and leaders. The AEA will create the conditions for students to express pride in their cultural and racial identities, gain a sense of belonging, and receive the supports needed to become agents of cultural change - taking their learnings into every school community, building, and classroom across the district.

Candidates with the following qualifications and skills are encouraged to apply

All interested applicants should apply for the AEA, IF:

• They are ready to join a family of diverse DPS educators who support diverse DPS students/families during the summer program and throughout the academic school year.

• They have the skills, passion and heart for working with diverse incoming 9th & incoming 10th grade students.

• They are culturally-competent and responsive educators who know/model our DPS Shared Core Values.

• They regularly implicate the self as one way to support closing opportunity gaps for our DPS students of color.

• They thrive in collaborative, culturally, and racially-diverse working and learning environments.

• They are flexible and regularly model a growth mindset. They enjoy productive struggle, innovation, and out-of-the-box teaching/learning practices, and approach challenging situations with curiosity and wonder.

• They regularly engage in practices of self-care and reflection; to show up as their best selves for students/families.

• They understand the purpose of affinity groups and affirm their value.

• They bring an equity-based, calm, and joyful energy to their work, and they value and prioritize the journey or process over ‘box checking’ or perfectionism.

• They are excited about participating in off-campus cultural excursions/experiences.

• They have a desire to grow their teaching skills and enjoy professional learning that includes modeling, and opportunities for role-play practice.

• They share in our AEA Mission-Vision-Values