Math Curriculum Developer

Research Foundation of The City University of New York•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Bridges to Academic Success is a project that provides educational services and advocates for newcomer students who enter U.S. schools with limited academic skills, including low levels of literacy in their home languages. Bridges supports schools, teachers, and students by helping to accelerate language, literacy, and content-area learning through special school programming, curricula, and professional development for educators. We are a small team of instructional coaches, professional developers, curriculum developers, and researchers based at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Bridges trains teachers and administrators to support Students with Interrupted and Limited Schooling (SIFE) and Newcomers on implementation of Bridges curricular materials and resources.

Requirements

3+ years experience teaching math at the secondary level
3+ years experience teaching literacy
3+ years experience working with and teaching English Language Learners and preferably SIFE or newcomers and LTELs
Knowledge and experience with curriculum development and design, including backwards design
Ability to integrate feedback from a variety of stakeholders into deliverables
Experience working with external stakeholders and as part of collaborative team
Experience coaching and working with teachers; facilitating adult learning
Willingness to give and receive feedback on work and to revise in response to feedback
Facility with technology and online content dissemination
Ability to proactively manage time and deadlines across multiple workstreams; plan out milestones, and meet deliverable timelines independently
Ability to collaborate across the team in multiple cross-functional areas
Bachelor's degree required

Nice To Haves

Math curriculum developer with a language and literacy background
Experience teaching English learners
Experience serving long-term ELLs

Responsibilities

Revise two units of study based on feedback from the sponsor and from internal and external review. This includes teacher lessons, power points, student-facing materials.
Coordinate with the project manager, project director, and other staff to set up timelines, deliverables and milestones on-time and with quality.
Build the capacity of internal team members to lead and support the math unit implementation with the field.
Partner with team members to analyze needs assessments, conduct surveys and calls with educators to obtain feedback on new materials.
This role will require considerable project management and leadership experience as a team leader or other position.
The position requires both individual and collaborative team work.
Experience coaching teachers and/or leading professional learning seminars, and developing curricula or content with appropriate scaffolds.
Other duties as assigned.