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Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are

New Paradigm For Education (NPFE) is a non-profit Charter Management Organization (CMO) composed of educational practitioners, community advocates, and business leaders who have dedicated years of service to children. NPFE serves 2,100 students in Detroit, Michigan. We specialize in maximizing student learning potential through proven education practices and managing all phases of school design, planning, and program implementation.

Why New Paradigm for Education

NPFE is on a mission to ensure that all students in Detroit achieve at the highest levels, supporting educational transformation through increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support. NPFE’s Mission is to provide a quality education through shared responsibility in a safe supportive environment for all students to meet the needs of a global society. We are committed to excellence and strive to offer a new educational paradigm evident by increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support.

New Paradigm for Education seeks educators who have a relentless belief that all students, regardless of their race and economic or social circumstances, can perform at high levels, deserve a quality education, have access to high quality instruction and curriculum, and can attain post secondary success. Educators who are driven bv academic achievement, continuous growth, and excel working in a rigorous and supportive environment. We seek culturally responsive educators who have experience working with diverse communities and strong relationship-building skills that they apply to understand their students, families, and communities.

What You’ll Do

NPFE seeks tutors to provide individualized intervention to small groups of students in a targeted effort to increase student achievement. Tutors will deliver reading instruction and implement our tutoring curriculum. The tutor must be able to lesson plan, manage a classroom, and deliver instruction. S / he must also be able to monitor data from assessments and create reports.

Job Requirements

Must possess a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in elementary education

Prior experience working with school age children required; classroom experience highly preferred

Duties & Responsibilities

Write and implement lesson plans grounded in reading curriculum

Regularly incorporate constructive feedback into instructional practices and lesson delivery

Use data to monitor student progress and drive instructional choices

Work in teams to plan, problem solve, and support fellow instructional staff

Keep a consistent pulse on intervention data, putting together reports and recommending and implementing course adjustments as needed

Use data to monitor student progress and drive instructional choices

Solicit and utilize constructive feedback received from administrators and instructional coaches

Develop family-school relationships that foster the academic and social development of the child

Encourage parents / guardians to participate in the daily life of the school and reach out to families in their homes through training, parent nights, conferences, and telephone contact and through technology

Establish connections and relationships among their students and the larger community that support the academic and social development of the child and contribute to achievement of overall school goals

Other ancillary duties as needed or assigned