Job Opportunity: Curriculum Development Consultant

Job Opportunity: Curriculum Development Consultant
EdLabs seeks qualified curriculum consultants to develop an innovative guided reading curriculum for 8th
grade students. EdLabs has partnered with the NYC Department of Education to implement daily
intensive reading tutoring during expanded school day programming in 19 middle schools in New York
City. In 2014-2015, tutoring was offered to 6th and 7th grade students. In 2015-2016, we hope to also
offer it to 8th grade students. The tutoring program is based on a research-proven model from school
turnaround projects in Houston and Denver. Selected student participate in daily guided reading tutorials
with the same tutor for one hour each day, during ExpandED after-school programming run by The After
School Corporation (TASC) or during a strategic literacy period during the traditional school day.
In order to maximize the effectiveness of the tutoring corps, consultants will develop curriculum guides
for a selected set of high-quality age-appropriate books that tutors will use to run guided reading sessions
with students. EdLabs is currently seeking consultants who are interested in developing history books
about topics such as the 1920s, the Beatles and Lincoln. Consultants contracted to do this work will be
expected to develop chapter-by-chapter curriculum guides for this guided reading tutoring curriculum
according to a template provided to them by EdLabs.
Qualifications
- At least a bachelor’s degree and two years of teaching or equivalent experience developing
curriculum
- Demonstrated passion for young adult and/or children’s books
- Familiarity with strategies to help students understand difficult texts
- Excellent planning and organizational skills with a proven ability to execute tasks efficiently
- Strong communication skills; including clear and precise writing
- Flexibility, adaptability, and comfort with complexity and change
Application Process
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Submit resume to jobs@edlabs.harvard.edu with subject line “Curriculum Development
Consultant: History”
Prepare sample chapter assignment after receiving assignment via email. Assignment will be to
prepare a short sample of the reading curriculum for a history passage specified by EdLabs.
1. Consultant Services.
The curriculum includes: questions to activate prior knowledge, thinking tasks, vocabulary words and
definitions, comprehension questions with exemplary student responses and scaffolding questions,
Common Core alignments, discussion questions, extension readings, writing prompts, comprehension
quizzes, vocabulary quizzes, and answer keys. All questions, vocabulary, and ancillary materials will be
designed for 8th grade students performing at a 4th-8th grade level according to the Degrees of Reading
Power assessment.
2. Payment
Consultants will be paid according to work completed. A completed curriculum guide for a given book is
defined as having turned in a draft of the plans to EdLabs, making modifications to draft plans suggested
by EdLabs, and having revised plans approved by EdLabs. Payment for completing the curriculum guide
for a given book will depend upon the length of the book as follows:
Type of Book
Payment
Example
Physical Book
$5 per page
Someone who completes
(including approvals) the
master curriculum documents
for a 100 page physical book
would earn $500 (100*$5)
E-book
$7.50 per page
Someone who completes
(including approvals) the
master curriculum documents
for a 100 page e-book would
earn $750 (100*$7.50)
In order to be paid, curriculum developers must submit curriculum by the deadline specified in their
contract. Deadlines will be based on start date. Revisions must be completed 5 business days after EdLabs
sends back comments.