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Teach Today. Change Tomorrow!

JCPS is a leading district providing transformative learning opportunities to more than 96,000 students across 165 schools in Louisville, Kentucky. Together, we aim to inspire, uplift, and enable our students to reach their greatest potential in an ever-changing world. Join us in seeking unparalleled success and boundless opportunities for every student. 

Edris Humphrey
Recruitment Specialist
Twitter: @JCPSRecruit
jcpsrecruits@jefferson.kyschools.us
(502) 485-3519

Asia Newton
Assistant Coordinator Recruitment
Twitter: @JCPSRecruit
jcpsrecruits@jefferson.kyschools.us
(502) 805-4888

What JCPS Is Looking For

We are looking for educators who have a passion to fill our students' Backpack of Success Skills.

Backpack of Success Skills

While keeping all Three Pillars at the forefront of their daily interactions:

JCPS Pillars

Basic Requirements

  • Teaching certification or an interest in working toward a certification in a critical needs area through an alternative certification route (See list below.)
  • Background clearances

2023-24 JCPS-JCTA  Critical Needs Teaching List 

 Pursuant to Article 28 Section G of the JCTA/JCBE agreement, JCPS will recognize up to 20 years of teaching/certified experience for new experienced teachers hired in the following critical-needs areas/disciplines:

  • Math
  • Science
  • Dual Certification (two or more content areas, a content area or elementary with special education, or being certified at both the middle and high school level for a content area)
  • Dual Credit (HS and college course)
  • Career and Technical Education (CTE)—Occupation-Based Certification (specific occupations only)
  • Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
  • Special Education (includes LBD, MSD, HI, and VI)
  • English as a Second Language (ESL)
  • School Media Librarian
  • Interdisciplinary Early Childhood
  • Teaching in a school identified as an Accelerated Improvement School (AIS) at the time of hire
  • Mental Health Practitioners

 Additional areas may be identified based on qualified applicant data for a vacancy not listed above. 

Meet JCPS Students

Our Kids is an Emmy Award-winning, 30-minute television program that highlights JCPS students and schools. The monthly show includes reports from student correspondents at Ballard, Pleasure Ridge Park (PRP), and Fern Creek High Schools as well as stories that feature elementary and middle school students.

Meet JCPS Employees

JCPS employees highlight their roles and how they make learning possible for our students.

Meet JCPS Principals 

Meet JCPS principals responsible for planning, implementing, supervising, and maintaining the educational program. Principals are directly or indirectly responsible for attainment of the district's educational goals.

Louisville Teacher Residency

Our Louisville Teacher Residency (LTR) program allows us to prepare diverse, mission-driven teacher candidates committed to teaching in JCPS using an innovative approach characterized by an intense, full-year apprenticeship with a high-quality mentor teacher. During the program, residents are immersed in an authentic field experience for one year, earn a master’s degree from the University of Louisville, and become eligible for a teaching license.

Benefits of LTR

  • A competitive base salary for residents
  • Paid leave days
  • Participation in the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) Kentucky
  • Health benefits provided by the Commonwealth of Kentucky
  • On-the-job coaching and feedback
  • A cohort of peers for support and shared learning experiences

Learn more about LTR.

Project Purple

  • Project Purple prepares urban and rural personnel as leaders in special education.
  • Full-tuition grant for Ph.D. students
  • Full-time program with a $30,000/year stipend
  • Offered by the University of Kentucky (UK), College of Education; University of Louisville (UofL), College of Education and Human Development; and Ideas That Work, Office of Special Education Programs U.S. Department of Education 

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