{"id":11552,"date":"2017-11-15T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:15:57","slug":"job-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/job-188\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-Time Instructor\/Program Director Opening At Liberated Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bay State Learning Center\u00a0in Dedham, MA (near Boston) is looking for an Instructor\/Program Director to join their alternative self-directed learning community.<\/div>\n<div>BSLC is looking for a forward-thinking educator with enthusiasm and creativity to not only teach, but serve as program director. BSLC is in it\u2019s fourth year of operation\u00a0and has a stable, thriving program on the cusp of growing much larger. Do the kind of creative teaching you have always wanted to do, without the power struggles and unnecessary difficulties of traditional school. In a small setting like BSLC the potential for developing new ideas is limitless.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Instructional Responsibilities:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Work as part of a small team running a self-directed learning community of about 27 kids ages 10-19.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Flexibly teach a small variety of subjects in once-a-week classes; topics include the instructor\u2019s training areas and personal interests as well as the student\u2019s interests and needs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Guide students to an excited, open-minded and active interest in learning.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Advise students in one-on-one advising sessions with an assigned selection of students, assisting students to define their goals, pursue class work, develop general\/life organizational strategies, begin college planning, etc.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Maintain good documentation of class sessions as well as all advising sessions in the dedicated online databases for each.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Work with parents and families to help with the ongoing learning and development of the students.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Be available for students if they need assistance with any self-directed activity from getting started and organized to completion.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Organizational Responsibilities:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Help organize the weekly class schedule, as well as the yearly calendar.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Manage\/Work with volunteer teachers to find, schedule and maintain a diverse selection of classes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Help to run fundraising and outreach events to promote our program and keep it vital.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Help maintain a social media presence and assist with mass emails\/newsletters.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Bonus if able to help with website updates and marketing graphic design.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>To apply, send resume and cover letter explaining your interest in the BSLC program to both\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:george@baystatelearning.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">george@baystatelearning.<wbr \/>org<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:marjorie@baystatelearning.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marjorie@<wbr \/>baystatelearning.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay State Learning Center\u00a0in Dedham, MA (near Boston) is looking for an Instructor\/Program Director to join their alternative self-directed learning community. BSLC is looking for a forward-thinking educator with enthusiasm and creativity to not only teach, but serve as program director. BSLC is in it\u2019s fourth year of operation\u00a0and has a stable, thriving program on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}