Speak With Purpose Educator Innovator (Teaching Artist)

Educator Innovator (Teaching Artist)

Direct Supervisor: Director of Education

Direct Reports: None

Position Status: 

• Part-Time, nonexempt:
• 15-25 hours per week, flexible
• Works a total of 10 months 
• Position is hybrid. Administrative duties can be completed virtually, while School Programming will happen in person, pending Seattle Public Schools Guidelines, as well as internal meetings and professional development.

Compensation: Up to $30/hourly rate. Additional healthcare stipend available. 

Benefits: Accrual of PSST, Observed SPS Holidays, Mileage Reimbursement, Monthly Technology Stipend.

Organizational Overview: 

Speak With Purpose (SWP), formerly known as We.APP (We Act. Present. Perform.) is an education/arts nonprofit that partners with classroom teachers during the school day, using the transformative power of public speaking to empower young scholars to dismantle prevailing narratives, uplift their cultures and communities, forge self-authored identities and become forces for change.

We aim to reimagine classroom learning by collaborating with teachers and students to guide their education using student agency, collectivism and voice to nurture brilliance, imagination and leadership.

Position  Overview: 

This position’s primary responsibility will be the planning, facilitating, and evaluating the Speak With Purpose curriculum in partnering schools and with partnering SPS Teachers. SWP Educators will be trained in all Speak With Purpose fundamentals and pedagogy as well as be expected to follow all curricula as set by the Executive Director and Directors of Education. SWP Educators will be expected to pass all security clearance measures as set by Seattle Public Schools. 

Administrative:

• Monthly Grant Reporting- following the templates and structures provided, this position will complete narrative and numerical reports that align with grant requirements. 
• Attend and report at the monthly All Staff Meeting. 3 hours/month.
• Attend bi-weekly 1:1 meetings with the Education Manager. 2hrs/ month.
• Attend weekly Education Meetings. 5hrs / month.
• Class Incentive management: acquiring, distributing and budgeting. 2hrs/ month.
• Project management (Asana, Google Drive, Emails) 8hrs/month.

In-School Programming: 

• Provide a minimum of 4 contact hours per week of SWP Instruction at the assigned schools/classrooms. 
• Contact hours 
• Lesson planning (developing slides, writing out speakers notes, preparing materials for the next class)
• Reviewing scholar work and individual scholar needs outside class 
• Use planning and reporting tools like the SWP Scope and Sequence, and Curriculum Map to sequence and deliver program content in an accurate and timely manner
• Facilitate all data collection measures in classrooms, and ensure that all scholars and families have responded (including checking responses, and following up). 
• Communicate with scholars, families, and co-teachers regarding classroom needs or scholar performance. 
• Meet with partnering co-teachers to ensure program viability and to communicate lesson plans and expectations. 

Events:

•  Class culminating events: plan and produce culminating events (1 per semester) where scholars perform and families are invited (5-8 hours per month of culmination).
• School events: prep SWP scholars to perform at school events and attend with scholars to support at least twice per year, per school.  Attend additional events (like parent night) without performances as SWP’s liaison to the school community.
• SWP events: contribute to planning and running seasonal SWP events such as Speaker’s Bureau works, Rising Voices Orientation and Rising Voices Showcase day.

Staff Training & Professional Development:

• Attend and participate in internal staff training on the curriculum and SWP style etc.
• Attend external Professional Development sessions as assigned by the Education Managers and/or Executive Director. 

Qualifications: 

• A strong background in education systems and curriculum delivery. 
• Experience working in a variety of classroom environments; public school, private school, charter school, etc. 
• Ability to engage and excite students from 4th-12th grade. 
• Familiarity with data collection systems and implementation strategies 
• Comfort working in collaborative teams and independently.
• Technology proficiency including but not limited to Google Suite, and Microsoft Suite. 
• Strong commitment to social change, amplifying the voices of young people, supporting scholars in and out of the classroom, and turning ideas into words into action.
• Strong written and verbal communication and independent problem-solving skills: use clear questions and statements to communicate with a variety of different people (e.g. school admin vs parents vs co-teachers) about needs, and logistics.  Identify problems and areas of missing information and proactively pursue them to solve problems.  Be able to report thoroughly about these things to management.

ADDITIONAL PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Background in public speaking, performing arts, creative writing and youth arts education a plus!

Submit a cover letter and resume via attachment to a joint email to SWP Directors of Education Alex Kaethler at alex@speakwithpurpose.org and Krystal Smith at ksmith@speakwithpurpose.org  This position is to be filled as soon as possible.  

Strong written and verbal communication and independent problem-solving skills: use clear questions and statements to communicate with a variety of different people (e.g. school admin vs parents vs co-teachers) about needs, and logistics. Identify problems and areas of missing information and proactively pursue them to solve problems. Be able to report thoroughly about these things to management.

Proficiency in Spanish, Amharic (or other African languages), and Mandarin highly desired.