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Please see below for more information about our available independent contractor positions.
The Literacy Architects, LLC partners with schools districts, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations who want to move beyond traditional balanced literacy instruction and infuse more research-based practices into their literacy block. Our team is energized about changing instructional practices and has the knowledge and interpersonal skills to help our partners succeed.
What We Offer
- Opportunities to boost your career trajectory
Our part-time, independent contractor opportunities are a good fit for educators and consultants who have between 10 to 24 hours per month to dedicate to designing and presenting resources related to the science of reading. Our projects will allow you to grow your presentation, instructional design, and writing skills while diving deep into the research on how to teach reading and writing.
- Flexible work environment
Our contractors and partners are based throughout the U.S.A. We communicate virtually, mainly through email and video calls, allowing our team the flexibility to set their own schedules and work arrangements.
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion
We strive to build a community where everyone feels empowered to speak their truth and share their authentic selves. We celebrate and honor the individual differences, life experiences, culture, self-expression, and talent of our clients and partners.
Current Openings
Please click on your interest area below. Please note that these are all independent contractor opportunities.
Don’t see anything that quite fits? Fill out this form to let us know how you think you can help us further our mission of bringing strong virtual science of reading PD to all teachers and we’ll be in touch if it sounds like a good fit!
Professional Development Facilitator (K–2 science of reading)
| Position Summary | We are looking for a current or former K-2 reading specialist or teacher with advanced training in the science of reading who can deliver in-person (Washington, DC) and/or virtual training sessions to teachers and literacy coaches. |
| Employment type | Independent consultant (1099) |
| Compensation | Competitive, based on experience |
| Time commitment | Approximately 10 hours per month |
| Application Process | Please submit your qualifications and interest by clicking here. |
About Us
The Literacy Architects, LLC partners with school districts, nonprofit organizations, and state agencies to provide engaging PD experiences for school personnel on evidence-based reading instruction. These practices include phonemic awareness, systematic and explicit phonics instruction, fluency routines, and analyzing assessments such as DIBELS to design targeted instruction.
Overview
We are looking for a current or former K–2 reading specialist or classroom teacher with knowledge of the science of reading and evidence-based literacy practices to lead and facilitate professional development sessions with teachers and instructional coaches. Some of this PD will be in-person, in the Washington, DC area, and some will be virtual (on Zoom).
Consultant Qualifications
- You are fluent with evidence-based intervention strategies to address student needs with phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, and fluency.
- You are fluent with analyzing formative and diagnostic literacy data (e.g., Acadience, DIBELS, PAST, informal diagnostic surveys).
- You are comfortable talking to teachers and coaches about data and instruction.
- You are comfortable working collaboratively and using feedback to improve your work
- You are excited about our mission of improving literacy instruction for all students.
Application Process
- To indicate your interest in this role, please complete this form.
- If selected to advance, we will ask you to schedule a time to deliver a short presentation about a topic of your choosing to our team.
- If further selected to advance, we will ask you to schedule a virtual interview with our team.
Science of Reading Virtual Professional Learning Designer
| Position Summary |
The SoR virtual professional learning designer will:
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| Employment type | Full-time, temporary (through September 2023) |
| Compensation | $55,000–$65,000/year, depending on experience |
| Time commitment | 40 hours/week |
| Application Process | Please submit your qualifications and interest by clicking here. |
About Us
The Literacy Architects, LLC partners with school districts, nonprofit organizations, and state agencies to provide engaging PD experiences for school personnel on evidence-based reading instruction. These practices include phonemic awareness, systematic and explicit phonics instruction, fluency routines, and analyzing assessments such as DIBELS to design targeted instruction.
Overview
The Science of Reading Virtual Professional Learning Designer will design learning experiences for educators to learn about the science of teaching reading. This will primarily include two categories of resources:
1. Stand-alone coaching resources
These include short videos and other related resources (e.g., lesson plans, readings) that would benefit teachers during a coaching cycle. These resources will show teachers how to use a specific strategy with students or explain the “why” behind a strategy. They will address specific student concerns (e.g., ideas to implement with students who are mixing up b and d).
2. Self-paced courses
These involve a mix of videos, readings, quizzes, etc. that teach participants about a specific topic (e.g., phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, fluency routines). Your work will involve outlining a course syllabus based on research, designing slides, filming short instructional videos, and uploading the final course content onto our platform. The asynchronous courses can include any combination of videotaped lectures (i.e., a recorded screenshare with slides) and readings for participants to digest, and quizzes, homework assignments, and discussion forums for participants to apply their learning.
You will be responsible for making thoughtful decisions about content and assignments to enhance the participant experience. You will also be responsible for recording any screenshare videos for the course(s).
Feedback Process and Our Working Style
We believe that all products can be improved through collaboration, the sharing of ideas, and constructive feedback, and we will use the feedback loop to work through sticky issues, problem areas, and/or potential gaps that come up during the design process. The feedback loop goes both ways, and we welcome your ideas on how the design process and resources can be improved.
The majority of the design work will be performed by you independently, and you will be setting your own schedule, so this would not be an ideal position for someone who needs regular collaboration in order to make progress towards a finished product. This is a work-from-home opportunity with flexibility and autonomy within the timeline parameters. The ideal candidate will be self- motivated, independent, and possess excellent communication skills.
Qualifications
- Deep content knowledge of the science of reading and evidence-based intervention strategies
- Experience designing and delivering virtual trainings on literacy instruction
- Experience creating videos on literacy strategies (or a willingness to learn)
- Passion for The Literacy Architects’ vision of increasing our reach so that more teachers and school leaders can have access to high quality professional development on instructional best practices
- Attention to detail, particularly when it comes to the formatting and editing of documents and slides and aligning them to established branding guidelines
- Ability to design engaging professional development experiences
- Open to collaboration and feedback
Benefits
We do not offer benefits at this time.
Application Process
- To indicate your interest in this role, please complete this form.
- If selected to advance, we will ask you to submit a short video explaining an evidence-based literacy practice.
- If further selected to advance, we will ask you to schedule a virtual interview with our team.
If you are not certain if you are 100% qualified for this role but are still interested, please go ahead and complete the form linked above and let us know why you think you would excel in this role!
Partnerships Specialist
| Position Summary | We are looking to accelerate the reach of our online professional development to schools and districts across the country. The Partnerships Specialist will brainstorm ideas for new partnerships and build relationships with potential clients. |
| Classification | Independent consultant (1099) |
| Compensation | $5000/month |
| Time commitment | Approximately 40 hours per week |
| Time frame | 5-month contract to start |
| Application Process | Please submit your qualifications and interest by clicking here. |
About Us
The Literacy Architects, LLC partners with school districts, nonprofit organizations, and state agencies to provide engaging PD experiences for school personnel on evidence-based reading instruction. These practices include phonemic awareness, systematic and explicit phonics instruction, fluency routines, and analyzing assessments such as DIBELS to design targeted instruction.
Overview
As one of our company’s first Partnerships Specialists, you will be integral in developing and maintaining partnerships with school districts in Texas, Washington, D.C., California, and beyond. You will spend most of your time prospecting, reaching out to potential partners, conducting virtual product demonstrations, and helping us design webinars to increase our reach. You will also serve as a liaison between existing customers and our professional development team to ensure that customer needs are being met.
Specifically, we would like you to:
- Execute a plan to dramatically increase the number and breadth of our partnerships with schools, districts, and state education agencies.This will include contacting potential partners through cold calls and emails.
- Research and identify potential schools and districts who would be interested in self-paced and hybrid professional development and then craft and send proposals to those potential clients to secure a discovery meeting.
- Brainstorm new ideas for partnerships and business opportunities, using search engine research, social media, and networking.
- With our founder, attend (virtual) discovery meetings with prospective clients to discuss their professional development needs and how our self-paced and hybrid learning solutions may help.
- Develop and maintain a system for tracking information of prospective clients.
- Set targets for securing initial meetings and sales and track progress towards them.
- Regularly review our client testimonials and participant feedback to include in future outreach efforts.
- Identify opportunities for business development, including conference presentations, advertising, and networking.
- Schedule regular calls with customers to gather feedback and ensure that needs are being met.
- Meet regularly with our professional development team to convey feedback from customers.
This is a contract position, paid as 1099 independent contractor, and is a work-from-home opportunity with flexibility and autonomy within the timeline parameters. The ideal candidate will be self- motivated, independent, and possess excellent communication skills.
Consultant Qualifications
- You are natural at sales. To us, this means:
- You have outstanding relationship-building skills — you enjoy small talk and can easily start/continue conversations with strangers.
- Your friends and family would describe you as being persuasive and convincing — both in-person (i.e., verbally) and over email.
- You enjoy challenges — you don’t get frustrated with ignored emails or rejections.
- You have experience with k-12 school district sales and knowledge of the sales process.
- You can write persuasively about educational products.
- You have prior experience with edtech sales in the K-12 market, having sold reading products (ideally) to teachers and school/district leaders. (preferred)
- You are comfortable working independently in a fluid startup environment with minimal direction.
- You are comfortable working in a remote environment, using tools such as Slack, Zoom, and email for communication.
- You are comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously.
- You are organized and work best when you have a system to manage moving parts of complex projects.
- You truly believe that collaboration and feedback can improve the end result.
- You are excited about our mission of improving literacy instruction for all students.
Application Process
- To indicate your interest in this role, please complete this form.
- If selected to advance, we will ask you to schedule a virtual interview with our founder.
- If further selected to advance, we will ask you to complete a performance task (approximately 60 minutes).
- If further selected to advance, we will ask you to schedule a virtual interview with our team.
If you are not certain if you are 100% qualified for this role but are still interested, please go ahead and complete the form linked above and let us know why you think you would excel in this role!
Current and former district and school leaders are encouraged to apply!