Hope Academy job postings include “acknowledge racism and privilege” and “talk about racism with students” as required “skills”

Hope Academy is a public charter school located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has several job openings posted on the website SchoolSpring. Job postings from the school include positions such as “Multilingual Learner/English Language Learner Teacher,” “Special Education Teacher,” “Reading Specialist/Coach,” and “Middle School General Science Teacher.” Each position for the school provides a list of “skills” as qualifications. The full list is below:

• Acknowledge racism and privilege
• Study and teach representative history for students from all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds, abilities and family structures in mind
• Talk about racism with students
• When you see racism or other types of inequities, you address it
• Ability to work as a member of a team by actively listening to another’s point of view, sharing and being able to respectfully disagree
• Organizational skills including developing effective classroom schedule for teaching, learning, assessing, etc.
• Culturally influenced effective communication skills
• Proficient technological skills for remote learning and day-to-day tasks such as but not limited to Zoom, Google Classroom, MS Word, etc.