Mount Prospect Academy

**Classroom Teacher Job Description

Reports To: Academic Director

Salary up to $50,000**

Location: Pike, NH

Shared Employee Temporary Affordable Housing Available

Company Background:

Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy (MPA), a rapidly growing alliance of nonprofit agencies founded in 1964, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a zest for life" and succeed in the business of life.

Mount Prospect Academy has evolved to offer a variety of mental health support services to a diverse population of hard to treat and difficult to place adolescence. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools.

Mission:

MPAs mission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency.

Academic Services:

Academic instruction and internship experiences are core elements of Mount Prospect Academys holistic treatment philosophy. We specialize in working with difficult-to-serve youth who have not succeeded, academically or behaviorally, in a more traditional academic setting.

We provide full school days at MPAs academic programs. Our teachers provide competency-based instruction, and they employ innovative strategies to help non-traditional