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Science Coordinator at the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public school (Cambridge, MA)

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Please view the following opportunity from the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public schools below:

The Science Coordinator reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for the design, implementation, and assessment of a highly innovative and successful hands-on, K-6 science program at the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School. The Science Coordinator provides leadership for all aspects of the science program and also supports staff professional development in science by working directly with teachers and students in classrooms, leading the Science Team, and facilitating the Banneker Science Seminar Series.

Please send resume and cover letter to: hr@banneker.org

Specific responsibilities include:

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Science Coordinator/Coach to join our dynamic team. The Science Coordinator/Coach will play a pivotal role in advancing the quality of science education at our school. This position requires a passion for science education, strong leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with staff to ensure all students achieve academic success.

Responsibilities:

  • Monitoring and Analyzing MCAS Science Data: Utilize MCAS science data to assess student performance and identify areas for improvement. Analyze trends and develop strategies to enhance science achievement.
  • Providing Science Professional Development: Develop and facilitate professional development sessions for K-6 staff to enhance their pedagogical skills and content knowledge in science education. Provide ongoing support to ensure effective implementation of best practices.
  • Supporting and Monitoring Classroom Science Instruction: Collaborate with teachers to support and monitor classroom science instruction. Offer guidance, resources, and feedback to enhance teaching effectiveness and student engagement.
  • Ensuring Academic Success for All Students: Work closely with teachers, administrators, and support staff to ensure that all students, including those from diverse backgrounds and varying abilities, have access to high-quality science education and opportunities for academic success.
  • Writing, Designing, and Implementing Science Curriculum: Lead the development, writing, and design of a comprehensive science curriculum aligned with state standards and school goals. Ensure the effective implementation of the curriculum through ongoing support and monitoring.
  • Designing and implementing Science Assessments- to ensure fidelity to curriculum
  • Identifying, Monitoring, Organizing, and Providing Science Resources: Identify, evaluate, and organize science resources, including materials, equipment, and technology tools, to support teachers in delivering engaging and effective science instruction. Monitor resource usage and provide guidance on effective utilization.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Education, Science, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred)
  • Valid teaching license/science certification
  • Minimum of 3 years of teaching experience in elementary science education
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in curriculum development, professional development, or instructional coaching
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data to drive instructional decisions
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, including teachers, administrators, and community members
  • Knowledge of best practices in science education, including inquiry-based learning, STEM integration, and differentiation strategies
  • Proficiency in educational technology tools and resources
  • Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in education

Terms: 11 months

Salary: Commensurate with experience and education

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment committed to excellence in science education. Join us in our mission to inspire curiosity, foster critical thinking, and empower students to become lifelong learners and future scientists.

Academic Educator(s) at UTEC (Lowell, MA)

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UTEC has a job opportunity for Tufts students and alumni. See details in the message below:

My name is Rachel Shapiro. I’m a 2016 graduate of the Tufts MAT program. Last year, after teaching high school for several years, I started working at UTEC, a nonprofit organization in Lowell, MA that supports young adults to overcome systemic barriers to their success. Within the organization’s workforce development program, I help participants prepare for their High School Equivalency Tests and support their social-emotional learning. As a passionate educator who was feeling burnt out in a traditional school setting, this has been an amazing professional transition for me. This role has all the parts of teaching I love (building relationships, supporting student growth, passionate colleagues, etc.) and none of the parts I found stressful (grading, extensive prep, etc.). We are currently hiring two Academic Educators to join our team. If this sounds like an appealing opportunity, I encourage you to apply! Or pass this information along to others in your educator networks.


Detailed job description (including salary info) and application information can be found here: https://utecinc.applytojob.com/apply/7gc4Z8bq7m/Academic-Educator


Feel free to reach out with any questions: rshapiro@utecinc.org

Math Tutor (3rd grade content, Medford)

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Seeking math tutor for rising 4th grader to review concepts from 3rd grade over the summer, with the possibility to extend into the school year. 1 hour, 2x per week. $30 an hour. Any experience with students with ADHD is a plus. Located in West Medford. Please email at jessmacauley@gmail.com if interested.

SEEKING CAMP COUNSELORS FOR WEEKEND WRITERS’ RETREAT, JULY 18-21 2024

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We are seeking a coordinator and small team of experienced educators, camp counselors and/or caregivers to support the Du Bois Forum’s third annual writers’ retreat in Amenia, New York, July 18-21 (Thursday evening through Sunday midday).  Founded by Tufts Professors Dr. Kendra Field and Dr. Kerri Greenidge, the Du Bois Forum is an annual convening of writers and artists. More information about the Du Bois Forum can be found here: https://duboisforum.com/.  

Duties and Requirements: Planning, leading, and/or supporting relevant programming for children of retreat participants, Thursday evening through Sunday midday.  Candidates should have experience as camp counselors, educators and/or significant caregiving experience, and should be pediatric CPR certified (or willing to be certified).  The retreat weekend is intense but rewarding.  Depending on experience,

Location: The majority of the retreat takes place at Troutbeck in Amenia, NY, about 2.5-3 hours from Boston.

Pay: $20-$30/ hour ($400-$900 for the weekend), plus lodging and meals, depending on experience, hours, and role. 

If interested, please send your resume to teresa.salvato@tufts.edu.

Paraprofessional (Medford, MA)

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Medford Public Schools is seeking a paraprofessional. The application is for a general classroom para, but the specific assignment would be in the Therapeutic Learning Program at the Missituk Elementary School. If students apply and are interested, please contact Kathleen Kay at kkay@medford.k12.ma.us. For questions about the role you can contact Julia Murphy at juliamurphy@medford.k12.ma.us.

Job Description and Application can be found at this link here.

Summer Internships with IRC (Maryland)

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Summer 2024 Internships – Apply by May 15th, 2024

The IRC (International Rescue Committee) in Silver Spring, MD is still recruiting Summer 2024 interns. IRC internships give interns the opportunity to work directly with refugees to support them in accomplishing tasks needed to live successfully in the U.S. We offer 16 unique internships that provide a wide variety of opportunities to gain direct exposure to the refugee resettlement sector. 

We strongly encourage interested applicants to apply for more than one program. If you want professional, hands-on experience working with refugees, asylees and other humanitarian immigrants, apply to be an intern with the IRC in Silver Spring!

I’ve listed the titles and a description of each internship that is recruiting below. You can find the full description by going to the IRC Careers page and filtering by City (Silver Spring) and Employee Category (Intern). You will use the same link to apply.

  • Anti-Trafficking: The Anti-Trafficking Intern will work in close coordination with the case management teams to serve survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to navigate various systems to access resources and services. 
  • Refugee Walk-in Casework: The Asylee Casework team is the first point of contact for asylee clients. Caseworkers provide 8 months of case management to asylees. The services include providing monthly cash assistance, ensuring that clients apply for public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps, ensuring that clients apply for social security and enroll in health insurance and ESL classes.  
  • Career Development: The Career Development Program assists employed clients in securing job upgrades to improve economic conditions and align with career history and/or career objectives. The intern will work closely with the Career Development team and Financial Capabilities program to promote client self-sufficiency and encourage clients to work towards long-term career goals. 
  • Community Engagement: The aim of community engagement is to establish strong, mutually beneficial connections between the community and the IRC in Silver Spring order to garner monetary, in-kind and volunteer resources for refugee clients. The community engagement intern supports the administration of the family mentor program.   
  • Economic Empowerment: The Economic Empowerment program assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient by placing recently arrived refugees in their first job in the United States.   
  • Refugee Employment and Skill-Building: The Refugee Employment and Skill-Building Program aims to reduce barriers to self-sufficiency and employment and assist refugees to secure full-time employment.  
  • Refugee Employment Coordination: The Employment Coordination Program supports humanitarian immigrants to achieve economic self-sufficiency through engagement in work participation activities including volunteering, internship procurement, vocational English as a second language classes, and referrals to certificate-bearing professional development courses.   
  • Gender Equity: IRC programming assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient and supports acclimatization within the United States by providing access to casework services. This role will support the IRC’s Gender Equality work, cross-cutting programmatically and departmentally to support the administration of equitable services and the proper consideration of gender concerns in programmatic and departmental initiatives.  
  • Refugee Walk-in Services: The Intake program is the first point of contact to all “walk-in” clients that visit the IRC in Silver Spring. We provide fast track enrollment in public benefits and referrals to internal and/or external resources and programs as needed.  
  • Extended Case Management: The Extended Case Management (ECM) team provides case management services to up to 400 new clients each year. The team works directly with new refugees, asylees, parolees, and other humanitarian immigrants resettling in the DC Metro area, including Haitian, Ukrainian, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern individuals; utilizing a holistic 2Gen household approach for the families served, the team addresses both short-term and long-term barriers to support overall well-being in the US.
  • Refugee Health and Social Integration Intern: The refugee health and social integration intern will work in close coordination with the case management teams to serve refugees and other vulnerable immigrants who are struggling to navigate various systems to access resources and services. 
  • Refugee Resettlement: The Refugee Resettlement team supports refugees during their first eight months in the United States. The housing team prepares apartments for new families. Caseworkers connect refugees with services include providing monthly cash assistance, ensuring that clients apply for public benefits such Medicaid, food stamps, social security and enroll in health insurance and ESL classes. The cultural orientation team introduce refugees to U.S. customs and systems.  
  • Youth Program: The IRC’s Youth Program works to support the integration of school-age recently arrived refugees and asylees. Interns will support the enrolling of new clients in the youth program and completing individual service plans for each individual client.  

All selected interns will undergo and clear a background and reference check to intern. We ask that you make a $30 donation to help us cover the associated costs. Currently, 87% of our funding goes directly to programming to support our clients, and your help to cover this cost will ensure that no funding is directed away from serving our clients. Instructions will be provided after you have been selected to intern or volunteer. The IRC is not able to sponsor visas.   

The ability to work in-person at least one day per week is required. Internships require a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week. Summer interns are also expected to begin their internship term by attending an in-person intern orientation on June 3rd, 2024, from 9:15AM-2:00PM.

Internships with the IRC in Silver Spring are unpaid. Summer 2024 interns may be eligible for per diem reimbursement at the rate of $15/day to offset the costs of food and travel. For questions and more information on scholarship opportunities, contact the IRC Silver Spring Community Engagement Specialist at Michalina.Kulesza@rescue.org. 

Summer Academy Volunteer Opportunity (Maryland)

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Summer Academy Volunteer Opportunity – Now Accepting Applicants through June 10th!

The IRC (International Rescue Committee) in Silver Spring’s Summer Academy is a free learning experience for refugee students who are rising 6th-12th graders in Prince George’s and Montgomery County schools in Maryland. Volunteers facilitate lessons in English language and math, while incorporating extracurricular subjects and activities to broaden student’s horizons. Sign up here.

The program will take place in Prince George’s County July 8th – August 9th with 2-week cohorts of students in middle and high school. Weekly Schedule: Monday through Thursday 9:30am-2:30pm.

Volunteers are expected to attend all morning, afternoon or all-day sessions for their preferred cohort. You may participate in both cohorts, if desired.

Previous teaching and/or ESOL experience preferred but not required! This opportunity is open to volunteers high-school age and above. This opportunity is an Student Service Learning hours approved activity. 

All volunteers must attend a mandatory training on Monday, June 10th 6-7PM via Zoom. Sign up here.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Michalina Kulesza,Community Engagement Specialist, at Michalina.Kulesza@rescue.org

School Psychologist Long-Term Substitute (North Reading, MA)

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North Reading High School is seeking a School Psychologist Long-Term Substitute to provide services to students for the first two months of the 2024-25 school year. This assignment is tentatively from September 3, 2024 through November 1, 2024.

North Reading Public Schools is actively looking to build a diverse workforce to ensure all students feel welcome, safe, and valued for who they are and supported to reach their potential. Learn more here.

Pay: $282. 86 / Day

Essential duties

  • Provide short term and ongoing counseling services to students who are struggling with social, emotional, and behavioral problems
  • Provide a full range of psychometric testing as part of the special education eligibility/service determination process for initial, re-evaluations, and other evaluations as necessary for students
  • Coordinate and complete all required paperwork as part of the IDEA team process (IEPs)
  • Collaborate regularly with teachers/counselors to stay current with student concerns
  • Communicate with parents regarding academic achievement and behavioral and counseling intervention(s) as needed
  • Assist students who exhibit school refusal, chronic absenteeism, or behavioral concerns which interfere with academic success
  • Lead group counseling sessions related to issues such as: grief, anxiety, depression, and social skills development
  • Serve as a member of the school’s Crisis Response Team
  • Serve as a member of the school’s Student Assistance Team
  • Attend identified students’ TEAM meetings or 504 meetings as needed
  • Collaborate/case manage with community agencies and outside professionals providing therapeutic services to assigned students
  • Assist with student safety assessments as needed
  • Work collaboratively with school administrators to promote school policies
  • Other duties as assigned by the Principal and/or Director of Student Support

Requirements

  • Master’s Degree
  • Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) license as a School Psychologist
  • Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills
  • Familiarity with relevant laws and regulations that govern public schools
  • At least three (3) years of relevant experience preferred
  • Citizenship, residency, or work visa required

One Day Volunteer Opportunity (4/15, Boston)

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Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) is looking for responsible volunteers to help at our Kids Art Zone at the “One Mile to Go – Block Party” hosted by CITGO at Kenmore Square on Beacon Street on April 15, 2024. Volunteers will be responsible for helping facilitate kids art projects that ARCK will be providing. Experience working with youth to make art is a bonus. Volunteer shifts are available from 9 am – 5 pm, with each shift being two hours long. This is a great opportunity to receive credit for volunteer hours if applicable, and ARCK is happy to sign any forms that are necessary for this. All volunteers will also receive a free ARCK shirt!

ARCK, a 501(c)(3) established in 2012, is an innovative education non-profit dedicated to bringing creative education to under-resourced public schools. Through our unique teaching framework and deep collaboration with partners, we advance student well-being and creativity—skills crucial to students’ future success. ARCK is reimagining education as a holistic community, inspiring students from all backgrounds to thrive and flourish as inspired innovators.

Here is the link to the form to sign-up for shift(s) on 4/15: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B49A8AF23A5FAC52-48337975-marathon

If you have any questions, please reach out to Isabella Chung, Marketing and Communications Intern, at marcommintern@arckboston.org