Position Type:
Teacher
Date Posted:
2026-10-19
Location: James Ford Rhodes High School
ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.
CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.
Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.
BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES
The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Position available January 2027
Job Description
The Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) is a course of instruction taught for academic credit in high schools by retired officers and enlisted personnel. The Instructor is responsible to the Navy, the Senior Naval Science Instructor and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District for all aspects of the operation of the NJROTC unit. A typical unit has only two personnel and both must be fully capable of meeting all requirements.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Conducts the NJROTC program in accordance with applicable laws and adheres to all Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) regulations and policies
Prepares an annual operational plan; develops a schedule for the year reflecting school activities and NJROTC objectives and activities; includes cadets in the planning; organizes cadets and resources toward objectives
Performs administrative tasks; maintains student records; provides enrollment and other student reports as specified by NST Command; meets school administrative requirements
Carries out logistics tasks, prepares requisitions; maintain arms and supply operations in accordance with Navy security requirements and other regulations
Recruits new students, markets the NJROTC program, maintains the minimum enrollment of100 cadets or 10 percent of the schools total student enrollment, whichever is less; conducts a public relations program in the school and community
Teaches NJROTC cadets; achieves the curricular requirements and learning standards of the program, attains and improves proficiency in all military and other subjects taught; continuously improves NJROTC instruction by staying abreast of new and alternative instructional and…