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Role Summary

The Teachers Guild is searching for a Teacher Fellow with a passion for design thinking and community building to help run an online design challenge this summer and design new systems to unite and inspire our global educator community.

What your role will look like:

You will work with IDEO’s The Teachers Guild team to run our first-ever Teacher Take Over Summer Collaboration. As a Teacher Fellow you will…

Run a Collaboration

• Oversee the end-to-end Collaboration process by setting timelines, analyzing insights and ideas, and making iterations to sync with and drive engagement
• Join the community everyday and offer insights, connections, and feedback, through thoughtful online community management
• Spot trends and patterns to help facilitate the community towards designing relevant solutions for classrooms, schools, and networks
• Analyze and report regularly on engagement to the team
• Identify key performance indicators and share reporting across the team
• Strategize pathways for new solutions to be shared and come to life through educator networks

Support Teacher Engagement

• Broaden the reach to teachers and organizations not represented by partnering on engagement strategies and work with the team on targeted and coordinated outreach
• Design practices and channels for teachers, schools, and other education partners to participate and easily bring teacher designed solutions to life
• Design new engagement opportunities for teachers to participate in The Guild and be inspired by our mission
• Design and facilitate offline design thinking workshop experiences

Timelines:

Start date and orientation is late June. The online Collaboration will launch June 30th and run through August 5th. Orientation and training begins Monday June 27th.

Location:

Ideally, the Teacher Fellow will be able to work in IDEO’s San Francisco office for the duration of the 6-week fellowship. However, we are open to remote working, provided in-person training and recap at the start and end of the fellowship.

Compensation:

We are providing $2,500 stipend, plus professional development experiences.

Qualifications

• +3 years teaching and current educator
• Love of human-centered design, particularly in education
• Passion for communities and building relationships on and offline.
• Excellent project management, presentation, and workshop skills
• Comfort working with new technologies
• Previous experience participating on The Teachers Guild is a plus, though not a strict requirement.
• Collaborative.
• You embrace the ambiguous and would love to actively shape this role as you participate in it
• Optimistic

About The Guild:

The Teachers Guild is an initiative run by IDEO’s Learning Studio and Riverdale Country School’s Delta Group. It’s a professional community for teachers who are daring to design better solutions for our students, schools, and the greater system every day. We are a radical community of teachers and leaders from business, design, tech, and education who believe teachers are the innovators education has been waiting for. We use optimism, collaboration, and experimentation to design better solutions that keep pace with the changing needs of our students today.