Senior Education Consultant - English Language Arts (Contract)
Playpower Labs
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We’re seeking a consultant with 10 + years of classroom experience teaching English Language Arts (ELA) to audit our platform from a teacher’s perspective. You’ll map the full instructional cycle—planning, teaching, assessing, feedback—and identify gaps or friction points that slow learning. Your insights will directly shape our feature roadmap.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Workflow Audit – Walk through every teacher-facing flow (setup, lesson assignment, data review, remediation) and document pain points or missing steps.
Alignment Review – Verify that activities, assessments, and reporting align with major ELA standards (e.g., CCSS, state-level frameworks) and sound literacy practices.
Actionable Recommendations – Prioritize improvements, design sample workflows or wireframes, and collaborate with product/design to validate feasibility.
Teacher Voice Advocate – Conduct short interviews or focus groups with fellow educators to triangulate findings.
Validation Sprint – Re-test updated flows, confirming they resolve the original issues.
Must-Have Qualifications:
10 + years full-time ELA teaching experience (K–12).
Demonstrated success improving reading and writing outcomes.
Experience mentoring or coaching teachers, serving as department chair, curriculum writer, instructional coach, or similar.
Deep knowledge of literacy standards, formative assessment practices, and MTSS/RTI workflows.
Proven ability to translate classroom realities into actionable product feedback (previous ed-tech advisory or pilot work a plus).
Comfortable working remotely, using collaboration tools (Slack, Miro/FigJam, Google Workspace, etc.).
Clear, concise written communication—able to deliver reports that engineers and designers can act on.
Nice-to-Have:
Familiarity with UDL, culturally responsive teaching, and structured literacy approaches.
Insight into multilingual/ELL learner needs.
Experience integrating adaptive or AI-driven tools in instruction.
Prior participation in usability testing or product discovery workshops.
Engagement Details:
Time Commitment: Contract starts at a few hours per week, with the possibility to expand based on project needs.
Compensation: Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience.
What Success Looks Like:
Clear, teacher-centric workflows that reduce cognitive load.
Feature backlog ranked by instructional impact.
Measurable improvements in early user-testing (e.g., reduced task completion time, increased teacher satisfaction).
Strong ongoing partnership—our team views you as “voice of the classroom.”
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