Identity & Empowerment Instructor (Fall 2025)

Title: Saturday Academy Instructor Identity & Empowerment

Reports To: Senior Manager of Teaching and Learning

FLSA: Part-time Seasonal

Location: Guilford County North Carolina (Remote)

Compensation: $40/hr

There will also be future Saturday opportunities for Spring and Summer semesters.

Position Overview

Instructors will join SEOs community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college-prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school Scholars. Using our original curriculum and a student-centered approach to teaching and learning instructors play an integral part in supporting our Scholars journey to a competitive college and beyond. In addition instructors promote depth of understanding and skill acquisition by serving as a coach and facilitator of learning.

SEO North Carolina is a bichronous program for Scholars with lesson instruction is held 100% online facilitated through Zoom.

The Courses

SEOs IE classes are designed to prepare Scholars for academic and social success. Throughout their time in the High School Scholars program Scholars will be engaged with content in IE that will position them to develop as innovative leaders ones who use their knowledge and experience to both challenge and inform suppositions about the world.

For Fall 2025 the 10th Grade IE course is Mentoring and the 11th Grade IE course is Identity and Personal Statement Writing

The Sites

SEO North Carolina is a bichronous program for Scholars with lesson instruction is held 100% online facilitated through Zoom.

Dates Times and Hours:

• Self-guided Asynchronous Instructor Training: New Instructional staff will complete Asynchronous Training that equates to 10 hours of work. This can be completed on your own time and will be completed prior to the start of programming.
• Instructor Orientations: Thursday September 4 5:30-8:30pm on Zoom

Synchronous Online Instruction

• Saturday Academy programming 8:45am-2:15pm
• 09/20 09/27 10/04 10/18 10/25 11/08 11/15 11/22 12/06 12/13

Asynchronous Academic Support

• Hold office hours meet with Student Advisor and engage with Scholars work asynchronously
• Thursdays from 5:30-7:00pm on select weeks
• 09/22-09/25 10/06-10/09 11/10-11/13 11/17-11/20 12/08-12/11

Key Responsibilities:

• Synchronous Teaching Teach IE blocks on Saturdays via Zoom; occasionally co-facilitate with an Associate Instructor. Follow provided lesson plans and meet lesson objectives abiding by SEOs articulated criteria for rigorous instruction and student engagement.
• Asynchronous Academic Support Provide intentional academic support by hosting after-school office hours engaging in online learning practices including discussion boards and other online learning tools and building cycles of consistent feedback and accountability in the learning experience during asynchronous learning.
• Navigate Instructional Technologies Learn and efficiently utilize our instructional technologies such as Brightspace (Learning Management System) Nearpod GSuit applications and Zoom chat (instant messaging tool) in a Blended Learning environment.

Content Preparation Read internalize and practice all lesson plans and materials provided by SEO prior to teaching. Implement thoughtful adjustments to pacing and activities based on specific student needs.

• Grading and Record-Keeping Calculate grades according to rubrics and stipulations in provided lesson plans. Provide actionable growth-oriented feedback to students. Complete all grading in a timely manner (1 week turnaround) and keep the electronic gradebook up to date on Brightspace (our LMS).
• Classroom Culture Project an energetic engaging and approachable persona to promote students connection to the content investment in the learning experience and positive relationship to all members of the community.
• Collaboration with SEO Staff and Instructors Attend all scheduled meetings professional development trainings check-ins and debriefs and respond to all emails and Zoom chats in a timely manner.
• Responsiveness to Coaching and Feedback Meet with your assigned instructional coach (Lead Instructor) at least twice during the semester to receive and implement feedback and recommendations from their classroom observations.

Weekly Hours:

Instructors earn $40/hour. Their allotted hours are made up of Standard and Flex Hours.

• Standard Hours are when the instructor must be working on site with staff or students instructing/co-teaching a class or engaging with an instructional prep or support period:
• Saturdays 8:45am-2:15pm (with at least a 30 minute lunch) 5-13 (standard flex hours) varying by programming weeks
• Flex Hours make up the additional teacher work educators know go into the job. This is time spent grading preparing for the lesson following up with Scholars communicating with staff and Scholars etc. These are hours put in outside of the required schedule and can be completed asynchronously throughout the week.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in content related field
• Teaching certification K-12 classroom teaching experience and/or experience teaching at the college or university level
• Comfortable with and skilled at working with and navigating technological learning systems
• Understanding and practice of student-centered pedagogy
• Experience working with high school-aged students
• Expertise and depth of knowledge in advanced high school-level English and Humanities subjects
• Eagerness to engage in conversations analyzing the historical and continued causes of societal ills and challenges.

Preferred:

• Secondary Education Degree and Certification
• Knowledge and experience with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Certifications PD course completions and/or tertiary education in Instructional Technologies

COMPENSATION

Instructors are compensated on a competitive hourly rate scale at $40/hour. This position averages between 5-13 hours per week. The compensation listed reflects what SEO believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law compensation will be determined based on the skills qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position and SEO reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

This position is benefits ineligible in accordance with local state and federal regulations.

EEOC Policy

At SEO we are committed to cultivating a team that embodies the backgrounds and experiences of the constituencies we serve and the communities we live in and a workplace that reflects the impact we make in the world. Candidates from historically excluded and underrepresented communities including people of color women members of the LGBTQIA Community veterans and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity is not just the law it is our commitment.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of race color ethnicity religion sex gender gender identity and expression sexual orientation national origin disability age marital status veteran status pregnancy parental status genetic information or characteristics or any other legally protected status.

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