Professional Learning Specialist- Fairfield, California

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Professional Learning Specialist - Fairfield, California

Are you an educator transitioning out of the classroom? This is an excellent opportunity to join a mission-driven company focused on creating equitable classrooms for students, and still be part of a school community! Curriculum Associates seeks a Professional Learning Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate has a background in teaching and/or coaching Mathematics or ELA, as well as experience leading professional development with school and district leaders.   

Successful candidates will show flexibility and synergy with different team members including our Sales team, teachers, students, and school districts as part of day-to-day interactions. The Professional Learning Specialist will be responsible for providing targeted professional development, ongoing in-classroom support, data analysis, daily project management, and communication with district and site leaders. Dynamic, engaging leaders who are interested in making a lasting and direct impact with the way schools teach Mathematics/ELA to students from grades K–8 are encouraged to apply.  

Why join this team: 

• Work with multiple stakeholders across large audiences. 

• Attend educational conferences related to your role. 

• Experience new environments and challenges on a day-to-day basis. 

• Collaborate in a supportive environment filled with feedback loops, a strong virtual community, and shared best practices. 

• Help districts choose and implement a product with lasting impact on learning. 

The impact you'll have:  

• Become an expert on the company’s online Diagnostic and Instruction  program and Common Core product 

• Support districts select and implement a product with lasting impact on learning  

• Work with multiple stakeholders across large audiences  

• Support district-wide adoptions of the Ready program and the i-Ready online diagnostic and instruction program  

• Help to ensure equity in the classroom by delivering professional development to teachers, coaches and leaders on how to effectively implement Ready and i-Ready to impact classroom learning  

• Meet teachers where they are and provide tailored on-site support to teachers, coaches and leaders. This may range from providing lesson planning and pacing support, to helping educators analyze data and apply it to instruction, to working with leaders to identify evidence of implementation successes and challenges  

• Collaborate with district leader and site leaders to develop and revise annual professional development plans and schedules