Collegiate Academies

Why Collegiate?

We serve all students.

We see the individual greatness of every student who comes through our doors. We design our schools to meet the needs of every student academically and socially.

Learn more about our unique programs.

We grow ourselves.

Our teams engage in regular observations, weekly coaching meetings and ongoing learning through professional development. We hold ourselves accountable for our commitments. This leads to incredible growth.

We put our teams first.

Our teams are tight-knit, collaborative and supportive. This means incredible results for kids.

We are the only education entity ever to be ranked the #1 Best Place to Work in New Orleans by CityBusiness.

Longevity is our norm.

We want our schools to be institutions. Last year, we retained 88% of our staff last year. We've have 100% Principal retention in our network since founding in 2008. Change is generational and we are invested in that.

You get to be a leader here.

At Collegiate, we empower everyone to be a leader. Our teachers see the needs of our students every day. We believe that makes them best positioned to find new and innovative ways to improve our schools. 

We get results.

Our students grow more than students at other schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Our students regularly outperform the Louisiana average on state tests — see our latest annual report for details.

09/20/2023
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring Social Studies teachers in both cities. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college ready bar.  Our Approach to Social Studies: Our social studies classes are grounded in reading, writing and talking about primary sources, with our social studies curricula written by CA teachers to meet state standards and to allow for culturally responsive instruction of our students. It is constantly revised to better meet our students’ needs.  At CA, we offer the following social studies courses: World Geography, World History, U.S. History, A. P. U. S. History, and Seminar in Social Justice (SSJ). SSJ is our interdisciplinary and project-based approach to Civics in which students work in teams to research issues in their communities and propose...
08/21/2023
Full time
Collegiate Academies
Job Description About this role: We are currently seeking a Manager of Data and Operations (MDO. The MDO's goal is to ensure that our school will be a safe, joyful, and peaceful environment for all scholars, families, teachers, administrators, partners, and visitors.   About Collegiate Academies: Collegiate Academies prepares all students for lives of unlimited opportunity. Founded in 2008, Collegiate Academies serves over 3,000 students in five public high schools and two postsecondary programs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. We see the individual greatness of every student who comes through our doors. We serve a dramatically higher proportion of students with special needs, students who are English language learners, and students who are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Our teams engage in regular observations, weekly coaching meetings and ongoing learning through professional development.    Role and Responsibilities...
08/21/2023
Full time
Collegiate Academies
Job Description About this role: As a key member of the Intervention Team, the Manager of Intervention Compliance is responsible for ensuring all Collegiate Academies Scholar Support goals are met. The Manager of Intervention Compliance works with Case Managers, General Education Teachers, our School Social Workers, and outside service providers to make sure behavioral and academic services across the school are meeting the needs of our scholars and are documented with the highest quality.   About Collegiate Academies: Collegiate Academies prepares all students for lives of unlimited opportunity. Founded in 2008, Collegiate Academies serves over 3,000 students in five public high schools and two postsecondary programs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. We see the individual greatness of every student who comes through our doors. We serve a dramatically higher proportion of students with special needs, students who are English language learners, and...
08/21/2023
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring Special Education teachers in both cities. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college-ready bar.  Teacher Development at Collegiate Academies: At CA, our teachers never stop learning and never stop growing. Here’s how: Our approach to teacher development at CA is focused on individual goals and growth combined with a high degree of individualized support.  Every teacher has a coach, and you will collaboratively, with your coach, create your growth goals and determine the plan that will see you hit those goals.  There are some things in common with other teachers at your school -- school goals, school priorities, school-based PD, etc. -- but it is in your relationship with your coach where you will translate those things into what...
08/21/2023
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring science teachers in both cities. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college ready bar.  Our Approach to Science: CA science teachers believe in phenomena-based instruction - building the curiosity, habits, and investigative skills our students need in future STEM careers. Our courses are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and our content leaders have written or adopted shared curriculum for Earth and Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Biology. Our teachers partner with the STEM Library Lab, which provides CA students with resources for labs and hands-on experiences both at home and at school which we know are critical for our students’ success in the sciences.  We offer Earth and Environmental Science, Chemistry,...
08/21/2023
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring English teachers in both cities. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college ready bar.  Our Approach to English: We design our approach to English to be inclusive and ambitious while also prioritizing choice and ownership. We aim to have the texts and topics we tackle show a wide range of different voices and perspectives. We believe that all students deserve to engage in these conversations and texts, and work to provide supports that allow all students of all abilities access to them.  Though we do follow a curriculum that includes challenging texts, we also give students multiple ways to demonstrate their understanding through different assessment options and emphasize independent reading to extend the skills learned in class....
05/15/2023
Full time
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring ACT Prep teachers in both cities. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college ready bar.    Our Approach to ACT Prep: ACT Prep teachers prepare students for the ACT exam and the Accuplacer exam. This course is distinguished by the use of data to tailor instruction to each student’s needs and their individual goals. It draws from a variety of curriculum both from inside and outside of CA.   Your job is not this test, but rather to be a life coach -- it is to help clear this obstacle and get your students where they need to be at age 17 or 18 so they can be where they want to be when they are 27 or 28. You must know your students and their career and college goals extremely well and use data to create an ACT plan to...
05/15/2023
Full time
Collegiate Academies
Job Description About This Role:  We are looking to hire elective teachers, specifically for Art, Band, Physical Education, Theater, and Financial Literacy in New Orleans and Baton Rouge for the 2023-24 school year. Elective teachers must provide personal exploration that allows students to develop interest and skills in an enriched setting. An ideal candidate will have strong content knowledge in the elective course they are teaching, holds a rigorous bar for that content, and builds passion for art and design in their students.   Teacher Development at Collegiate Academies:  At CA, our teachers never stop learning and never stop growing. Here’s how: Our approach to teacher development at CA is focused on individual goals and growth combined with a high degree of individualized support.  Every teacher has a coach, and you will collaboratively, with your coach, create your growth goals and determine the plan that will see...
01/19/2023
Collegiate Academies
Job Description About this role:  The Director of Accounting will be responsible for overseeing Payroll Accounting for all Collegiate Academies teammates. Success in this role will help to ensure that teammates have the financial security to achieve our ambitious mission, as well as ensuring that Collegiate Academies’ financial management is sound and rigorous.    This position requires a deep attention to detail, an ability to meet hard deadlines, a desire to be part of a growing organization, and thorough knowledge of basic accounting principles and procedures. A successful candidate will be excited about executing and refining our accounting and payroll systems to allow our schools to have unprecedented focus on students, because a financial worry never crosses their mind.   About Collegiate Academies:  Collegiate Academies prepares all students for lives of unlimited opportunity. Founded in 2008, Collegiate...
09/09/2022
Collegiate Academies
About This Role: We currently have four high schools in New Orleans and one high school in Baton Rouge, and we are hiring math teachers in both cities for the 2023-24 school year. Teachers must be deeply committed to creating a classroom culture where 100% of your students are engaged in rigorous lessons aligned to the college ready bar.  Our Approach to Math:  Our Math team at CA is truly teacher led. With a high retention year over year across our math team, our curriculum has been built with focused investment in collaboration across schools, research and development by teachers. We are also constantly innovating and pilot new approaches annually to meet the needs of our students.  Math courses are typically the same at our schools in ninth and tenth grade, but diverge in the later grades with course offerings. The math courses offered across our network are: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Statistics, Calculus, A. P. Calculus, and A. P. Statistics. We also...