UnboundEd Facilitator, Science K-5 (Contract-Based)

ABOUT UNBOUNDED
UnboundEd is dedicated to ensuring that education systems disrupt systemic racism by providing students of color GLEAM™ (grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful) instruction. We are a team of former classroom teachers, curriculum writers, and school and program leaders dedicated to empowering educators to meet the challenges set by higher standards, unfinished instruction, and institutional racism. We provide immersive instructional equity professional development, free high-quality standards-aligned resources for the classroom, and other professional learning opportunities for teachers, coaches, and leaders. We thrive in working collaboratively and work to dismantle inequitable structures within our own organization and within the education system.

ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS
Standards Institute is an immersive and transformative five-day in-person learning experience appropriate for teachers, coaches, and leaders. This highly interactive experience focuses on the mindsets, planning, and instructional actions required for implementing grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful (GLEAM™) instruction. During the experience, participants explore the impacts of racist and biased instruction on students of color. They identify specific mindsets and practices that embody GLEAM instruction for their chosen pathway. Throughout the sessions, participants reflect on and commit to specific action steps aligned with GLEAM instruction in their chosen pathway. Participants leave Standards Institute with a personalized action plan that identifies context-specific opportunities to ensure students receive GLEAM instruction.

UnboundEd Summits, delivered online or onsite, provide an interactive learning experience focusing on the mindsets and planning required for implementing grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful (GLEAM™) instruction. During the two-day experience, participants explore the impacts of racist and biased instructional practices and materials for students of color. Participants identify specific mindsets and practices that embody GLEAM instruction for the chosen pathway. Throughout the sessions, participants reflect on and commit to specific action steps aligned with GLEAM instruction in their chosen pathway. Participants leave the Summit with a personalized action plan that identifies context-specific opportunities to ensure students receive grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful instruction.

FACILITATOR RESPONSIBILITIES
UnboundEd facilitators deliver standards-based sessions that build understanding of racist structures in education and how to recognize and practice grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful (GLEAM™) instruction. While they come from a variety of backgrounds, they all know how to:

• Create welcoming yet challenging learning environments
• Effectively prepare and “hold the room” while facilitating
• Modify instruction based on participant needs
• Make connections between session content, their own experience, participant experiences, and relevant research
• Raise participant awareness of systemic racism, bias, and the ways it plays out in self, colleagues, schools, and school systems

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years science teaching experience
• Experience teaching, coaching, or developing curriculum or professional learning for the the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and their attendant instructional practices

The Strongest Candidates Will Have

• Experience coaching or leading other adults in science instruction
• Experience facilitating professional learning for adults
• Knowledge of high-quality, NGSS-aligned curricula
• Experience facilitating around issues of race and equity

Benefits

Compensation

• This is a contracted position.
• We provide compensation for facilitation and any applicable training.
• We also cover lodging for all facilitators and a per diem for meals at all onsite events.