High School ELA Content Specialist

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ChalkTalk

High School ELA Content Specialist

Dallas, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Two Positions Available: One Full Time Employee & One Full-Time 1099 Contractor

    _ Work Environment: Remote_

    ** About ChalkTalk**

    At ChalkTalk, we believe that education is human. It's more than scores and statistics. Be part of a team that's transforming education and achieving up to 6x improvement in student learning outcomes.

    ChalkTalk uses student assessments to generate digital courseware for every day in the course schedule. Every modular ChalkTalk lesson comes with teaching materials for the teacher; small group work and computer-adaptive practice for students; and progress reports for administrators. ChalkTalk is delivering improvement in student learning outcomes up to 6x, as measured by third-party test scores. It is currently used to power high school literacy and numeracy instruction district-wide at some of the largest US districts - including 8 of the largest 100. ChalkTalk currently has 40 employees.

    ** Responsibilities**

    Author gap lessons for existing English and Reading testing curricula (SAT, ACT, TSIA2, CLT)

    • Create Reading and English lessons using standards knowledge and expertise
    • Author adaptive practice questions for each lesson that assess standards appropriately
    • Utilize existing style guide to ensure lessons are consistent with existing content

    QA new and existing content

    • Create metrics for defining high-quality lessons
    • Use metrics to review existing content (SAT/ACT/TSI/English 9/10) and edit content as necessary
    • Iterate on existing content by creating additional materials to improve user experience, such as foundation lessons, teacher engagement strategies, etc.
    • Review peer work to confirm alignment, rigor, and accuracy as well as edit for consistency and formatting

    Create alignment guides

    • Align CCR curricula with state standards
    • Create customer facing documentation to show alignment

    ** Must Have Qualifications**

    • 1+ years of experience as a High School ELA curriculum writer / author with an EdTech company or school district
    • 6+ years as a High School ELA Teacher
    • Experience tutoring or teaching SAT or ACT prep with proven results
    • Experience writing TX or FL aligned content
    • Thrives in fast-paced and agile work environments
    • Self-starter who defaults to leadership and action
    • Organized, detail-oriented, adaptable, collaborative

    ** Why work at ChalkTalk?**

    • Mission : You want to help provide the best education possible to everyone on the planet.
    • Impact: In just 15 weeks, districts that bought ChalkTalk saw their students experience 2–6X MORE GROWTH ON OFFICIAL STATE TESTS compared to their peers who received 52 weeks of traditional classroom instruction. Big impact with vulnerable student populations.
    • Growth : Company has consistently grown, increasing revenue by double or more each year since 2019 and has 8 the largest 100 school districts in the US as customers.
    • Awards: * 2020: Top 10 finalist out of 700+ companies at ASU+GSV Cup. * 2021: Winner of FETC’s Best in EdTech alongside Microsoft & Lego. * 2022: Winner of EdTech Week’s EdTech Cup in NYC. * 2023: “North America EdTech 200” by HolonIQ. * 2024: “The World’s Top EdTech Companies” by TIME Magazine & Statista
    • Accelerators: AWS EdStart, OnRamp Education Accelerator, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) NYC