Senior Education Consultant for English Language Arts

Role Summary:

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.”