The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking a creative, dynamic and committed educators to submit an Expression of Interest for Continuing Education:

Winter 2025 Night School (VIRTUAL) - Secondary Teacher

Overview

The Winter 2025 Night School program offers Reach Ahead courses in the following subjects: Guidance and Career Education, English, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences and Humanities, ESL, as well as the Ontario Secondary School Literacy course. The Winter 2025 Night School program for students will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Thursday, February 20 - May 29, 2025. There will be a paid staff meeting prior to the start of the Night School classes on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm via Google Meet. For specific course information, visit the Continuing Education Night School website: Night School. Each session is 3.85 instructional hours, running from 5:30 p.m. to 9:21 pm. Teachers must be prepared to deliver the assigned credit through Synchronous and Asynchronous platforms according to a PREDETERMINED schedule. The platforms that will be used to deliver virtual learning expectations will include Google Classroom as the Learning Management Platform and Google Meet for class meetings. Teachers may also wish to incorporate other vetted applications and resources and will be able to access resources within the VLE.As the program is offered in virtual format, it is expected that all educators have access to secure and reliable internet, without additional cost to the OCDSB. Please note, as per the collective agreement, article 40.02 c: in the event that the Employer cancels two (2) or more days/evenings of Continuing Education courses as a result of unforeseen circumstances beyond its control, Continuing Education teachers will be required to attend and teach a make-up evening. The Winter 2025 Night School Session replacement date is Tuesday, June 3, 2025.Employment Offer duration: February 18 - May 29, 2025

Program duration for students: February 20 - May 29, 2025 (27 nights)

Program location: Virtual

Class times: 5:30 pm - 9:21 pm

Pay rate: $55.45/hour + 4% in lieu of vacation Night School website: Night School website

Continuing Education website: Continuing Education

Application Process

There is only one posting for the Winter 2025 Night School Session. All teachers, with or without Continuing Education (CE) Seniority, can apply to this posting. Applicants MUST hold Senior qualifications with the Ontario College of Teachers (in good standing) at the time of application. Per the Collective Agreement, applicants with CE Seniority who appear on the October 2024 Continuing Education Seniority List and hold the required qualifications will be offered positions first. If there are still positions available after all CE Seniority teachers who applied to this posting have been placed, remaining applicants will be assessed according to the requirements and OCT qualifications outlined in this job posting, and in accordance with Policy P.146.HR Equitable Recruitment, Hiring and Promotion.Staffing Survey

Shortly after the posting closes, all applicants will receive a follow-up email with a link to a short survey confirming your availability for night school.

Staffing Timelines

Staffing timelines for Night School become more and more constrained as we edge closer to the end of registration. Offers of work will begin no earlier than February 3, 2025, but could be as late as Thursday, February 20, 2025. Offers will be sent to the email you provided in Apply to Education (ATE) by the Principal of Continuing Education. Please make sure that your preferred email address is up-to-date in ATE. Offers will have specific response parameters, including timelines for acceptance/decline. Teachers will have 24 hours to respond to the offer. Where acceptances are not received within the timeframes specified in the email, it will be assumed that you are declining the offer of work.PLEASE NOTE: As a condition of employment, all new employees will be required to submit a recent Police Record Check for the vulnerable sector prior to their start date with the OCDSB.If you require an accommodation at any point in the selection process, please send an email to ginette.thibeault@ocdsb.ca or denise.abrantes.leite@ocdsb.ca.

OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity. EDUCATING FOR SUCCESS - BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES TOGETHER

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