Credit Recovery Teacher

Career Success Schools - Phoenix, Arizona

Position Summary

Career Success Schools (CSS) is seeking a dedicated, student-centered Credit Recovery Teacher to provide individualized, one-on-one academic instruction and support to high school students enrolled in its Phoenix credit recovery program.

The Credit Recovery Teacher works directly with individual students who need to recover high school credits and remain on track for graduation. The teacher provides tutoring, academic intervention, assessment, grading, mentoring, and progress monitoring based on each student's individual academic needs and assigned coursework.

Students may complete printed instructional packets, online courses, assignments, projects, assessments, or other approved credit recovery requirements. The teacher guides each student through the assigned curriculum, explains academic concepts, evaluates completed work, and ensures that all course requirements are satisfied before academic credit is awarded.

This position requires a patient, flexible, and highly organized educator who can establish meaningful professional relationships with students who may have experienced academic, attendance, personal, or social challenges. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to student achievement, educational equity, accurate academic documentation, and helping students successfully earn credits and graduate from high school.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

One-on-One Instruction and Academic Support

• Provide individualized, one-on-one instruction and tutoring to students in grades 9-12 completing credit recovery coursework.

• Meet with students individually to review assignments, explain academic concepts, assess understanding, and address specific learning needs.

• Assist students with understanding and completing instructional packets, online coursework, assignments, projects, assessments, and other required academic activities.

• Deliver instruction aligned with approved curriculum, Arizona Academic Standards, and Career Success Schools' instructional expectations.

• Adapt instructional methods, explanations, pacing, and academic support based on each student's learning style, skill level, academic readiness, and assigned coursework.

• Provide targeted academic interventions to students who are not demonstrating adequate progress.

• Use assessments, completed coursework, student performance data, and individual conferences to guide instruction and intervention.

• Help students develop effective study habits, time-management skills, goal-setting practices, and personal accountability.

• Provide timely, constructive, and supportive feedback that helps students improve their academic performance.

• Support students in completing coursework accurately and within established timelines.

• Identify students who require additional academic, behavioral, or social-emotional support and coordinate appropriate interventions with school leadership and support staff.

• Encourage student persistence, confidence, self-advocacy, and continued progress toward course completion and graduation.

• Incorporate appropriate instructional technology and online learning platforms into individualized student support.

• Maintain an organized, respectful, safe, and productive one-on-one learning environment.

Grading and Academic Documentation

• Review, evaluate, and grade student packets, assignments, projects, assessments, and online coursework in accordance with approved curriculum standards and grading procedures.

• Ensure that grading is accurate, consistent, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.

• Verify that each student has completed all required course components before recommending the awarding of academic credit.

• Provide students with opportunities to revise or correct work when permitted under program guidelines.

• Maintain accurate and current records of student attendance, grades, credits, course enrollment, course completion, and academic progress.

• Enter grades and student information into applicable student information systems, learning management systems, and instructional platforms.

• Monitor each student's progress toward course completion, credit attainment, and high school graduation requirements.

• Prepare and maintain academic progress reports and other documentation required by school administration.

• Communicate concerns regarding student attendance, academic performance, engagement, or course completion to the appropriate administrator.

• Protect the confidentiality, accuracy, and security of student educational records.

Individual Student Progress Monitoring

• Develop an understanding of each student's assigned courses, outstanding credit requirements, academic goals, and anticipated completion timeline.

• Conduct regular one-on-one progress conferences with students.

• Review completed work and identify areas requiring additional instruction, correction, or academic intervention.

• Establish individualized academic goals and course-completion expectations.

• Monitor whether students are making adequate progress toward established goals and deadlines.

• Adjust instructional support and intervention strategies based on student progress.

• Maintain clear documentation of individual student meetings, instructional assistance, completed assignments, grades, and identified concerns.

• Coordinate with administrators, counselors, registrars, and other appropriate staff regarding student credit needs and graduation progress.

Student Engagement and Retention

• Establish positive, supportive, and professional relationships with individual students.

• Regularly monitor student attendance, participation, academic progress, and course completion.

• Conduct individual student check-ins to establish goals, reinforce expectations, and address concerns.

• Contact parents or guardians when attendance, participation, behavior, or academic progress becomes a concern.

• Help students identify and address barriers that may interfere with attendance, engagement, or successful course completion.

• Develop individualized strategies to reengage students who are absent, disengaged, academically behind, or at risk of withdrawing.

• Provide encouragement, mentoring, accountability, and consistent follow-up to support student persistence.

• Celebrate student progress, credit attainment, course completion, graduation milestones, and other academic achievements.

• Collaborate with administrators, counselors, teachers, registrars, and support staff to improve student retention and completion rates.

• Connect students and families with available school or community resources when appropriate.

• Promote a welcoming, inclusive, respectful, and encouraging learning environment.

Student Supervision and Professional Expectations

• Establish and communicate clear expectations for student attendance, participation, conduct, academic integrity, and completion of assigned work.

• Supervise students appropriately during scheduled one-on-one instructional sessions and while students are completing assigned coursework.

• Reinforce school policies and program expectations consistently and fairly.

• Address student behavioral or engagement concerns using appropriate interventions and established school procedures.

• Maintain professional boundaries and exercise sound judgment when working individually with students and families.

• Ensure that one-on-one interactions are conducted in accordance with school safety procedures and professional standards.

• Report student safety, welfare, behavioral, or compliance concerns through the appropriate administrative channels.

• Support an instructional environment that promotes respect, responsibility, accountability, and academic achievement.

Collaboration and Communication

• Communicate regularly and professionally with students, parents, guardians, administrators, counselors, teachers, registrars, and support staff.

• Work collaboratively with school staff to develop and implement individualized student-support strategies.

• Participate in staff meetings, professional development activities, student-support meetings, data meetings, and program-planning activities.

• Provide school leadership with regular updates regarding student progress, attendance, course completion, and academic concerns.

• Participate in curriculum review, instructional planning, data analysis, and continuous-improvement activities.

• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure consistency in grading, academic expectations, student interventions, and the awarding of course credits.

• Contribute to a positive, collaborative, professional, and student-focused school culture.

Compliance and Program Operations

• Follow all Career Success Schools policies, procedures, curriculum requirements, and professional expectations.

• Comply with applicable federal and state education laws, Arizona Department of Education requirements, and school policies.

• Follow established procedures for grading, attendance reporting, awarding credits, maintaining student records, and documenting course completion.

• Maintain student confidentiality in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and other applicable requirements.

• Complete required reports, records, and documentation accurately and within established deadlines.

• Participate in program evaluation, accreditation, compliance reviews, and continuous-improvement efforts as assigned.

• Maintain appropriate instructional materials, student files, records, and technology.

• Perform additional duties as assigned by the principal, program administrator, superintendent, or designee.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

• Valid Arizona teaching certificate appropriate for the position.

• Valid Arizona Structured English Immersion endorsement or another endorsement required by the Arizona Department of Education.

• Valid Arizona Identity Verified Prints Fingerprint Clearance Card.

• Experience providing individualized instruction, tutoring, intervention, or academic support to high school students.

• Experience working with students who are at risk, credit deficient, disengaged, or enrolled in a nontraditional educational program.

• Ability to provide effective one-on-one instruction across varying academic skill levels.

• Ability to assess, grade, and document student work accurately and consistently.

• Knowledge of effective instructional and intervention practices for secondary students.

• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, organizational, and student-engagement skills.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with administrators, teachers, counselors, registrars, and support staff.

• Ability to use student information systems, online instructional platforms, and standard workplace technology.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three or more years of successful secondary teaching or tutoring experience.

• Experience teaching in a credit recovery, alternative education, dropout-prevention, reengagement, or independent-study program.

• Experience providing one-on-one tutoring or instruction across multiple high school subject areas.

• Experience reviewing and grading packet-based, online, or independent-study coursework.

• Knowledge of Arizona high school graduation and credit requirements.

• Experience using student information systems, learning management systems, and online credit recovery platforms.

• Experience developing and implementing individualized academic interventions for struggling students.

• Experience working with diverse student and family populations.

• Bilingual abilities, particularly English and Spanish.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The successful candidate should demonstrate:

• Knowledge of effective one-on-one instructional practices for high school students.

• Knowledge of credit recovery, alternative education, intervention, and dropout-prevention strategies.

• Understanding of the academic, social, emotional, and personal barriers that may affect student achievement.

• Ability to individualize instruction based on each student's academic needs, learning style, and level of progress.

• Ability to explain academic concepts clearly across multiple high school subject areas.

• Ability to evaluate student work fairly and provide meaningful instructional feedback.

• Ability to interpret student performance data and use it to guide instruction and intervention.

• Ability to build trusting, professional relationships with students and families.

• Strong mentoring, motivational, and student-engagement skills.

• Ability to manage multiple students, courses, assignments, packets, assessments, and deadlines while providing individualized support.

• Strong attention to detail and academic recordkeeping skills.

• Ability to monitor and analyze student attendance, academic performance, credit attainment, and course-completion information.

• Ability to use technology to support instruction, grading, communication, and documentation.

• Ability to remain patient, flexible, calm, and solution focused when working with students facing significant challenges.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound professional judgment.

• Self-motivation, dependability, professionalism, and initiative.

• Commitment to educational equity and helping students earn credits and graduate from high school.

Work Environment and Schedule

This position works primarily in a designated credit recovery setting at Career Success Schools in Phoenix, Arizona. Instruction is delivered individually through scheduled one-on-one student sessions rather than through a traditional classroom model.

The Credit Recovery Teacher may work with several students during the workday, but each student receives individualized academic instruction, assistance, progress monitoring, and feedback based on the student's assigned coursework and educational needs.

The position requires regular interaction with students, families, administrators, counselors, registrars, and support staff. The employee may occasionally be required to participate in parent conferences, professional development, enrollment activities, school events, or student-support activities outside of the regular schedule.

Physical Requirements

The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Duties may include:

• Sitting or standing for extended periods.

• Using a computer and other instructional technology.

• Reviewing student packets, assignments, records, and electronic coursework.

• Communicating in person, by telephone, and electronically.

• Moving instructional materials, student records, or office supplies.

• Supervising students within the designated credit recovery setting.

• Occasionally lifting or moving materials typically used in an educational environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Career Success Schools is committed to providing an inclusive and equitable working environment. Career Success Schools encourages qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.