Middle School MyCAP Planning Team Member, Salem, Public Schools, Salem, MA INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY [SY 2025-2026]

Middle School MyCAP Planning Team Member Salem Public Schools Salem MA INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY SY 2025-2026

Stipend Position: 8 positions available
Location: Salem Public Schools Middle School
Eligibility: All educators are eligible to apply; City Connects Coordinators are highly encouraged to participate!
Time Commitment: 10 hours total

Position Overview

Salem Public Schools is seeking up to eight middle school educators and City Connects Coordinators to serve on a Middle School MyCAP Planning Team. This team will help coordinate planning for the next phase of MyCAP implementation by reviewing the work that took place this year and proposing a clear grade-specific scope and sequence for next years weekly MyCAP time. Our goal is for this work to build both explicit and integrated opportunities throughout the year for all grades!

The MyCAP Planning Team will help shift weekly middle school time from a stand-alone SEL block into a more coherent MyCAP experience. This means preserving important SEL goals such as belonging self-awareness relationships and decision-making while also intentionally connecting that work to students academic growth interests strengths career awareness goal-setting and future planning. For example this work will integrate Student Led Conference preparation into the SEL scope and sequence.

The planning team will focus on aligning existing SEL advisory career exploration student support and other middle school experiences to the MyCAP framework in order to create a more coherent and developmentally appropriate experience for students.

Responsibilities

Planning Team members will participate in 10 hours of compensated work including:

• At least three 90-minute planning meetings:
• Launch meeting - 3:30-5:00pm on Monday May 18th
• Midpoint planning meeting - 3:30-5:00pm on Monday June 1st
• Summary/recommendation meeting - To be determined
• Asynchronous work to review and map existing middle school experiences from this year to the MyCAP framework
• Identification of strengths gaps and opportunities in current activities and related student experience work
• Development of recommendations for a grade-specific MyCAP scope and sequence for next years weekly time
• Collaboration with colleagues to ensure the proposed plan is realistic student-centered and aligned across grade levels

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will:

• Have direct experience supporting middle school students
• Understand or be willing to learn about the MyCAP framework
• Bring knowledge of SEL student support advisory counseling career exploration or grade-level programming
• Be able to collaborate across roles and grade levels
• Be thoughtful about creating equitable developmentally appropriate learning experiences for all students

Compensation

This is a $450 stipend position for 10 hours of work funded by a DESE grant.

Application Process

Interested educators should submit a brief statement of interest describing their relevant experience and why they are interested in supporting middle school MyCAP planning to Chelsea Banks ().