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Social Studies Standards Alignment Contributor, freelance

The role:

Our Standards Alignment Contributors bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. To achieve this, Standards Alignment Contributors are responsible for:

Working with the content team to correlate and map outgoing standard sets to new updated standards to ensure Newsela content remains aligned to current standards
Working with our content team to tag newly created content with appropriate state and national standards, as well as retroactively updating our archive of existing content with aligned standards
Ensuring all content is accurately and appropriately tagged to state and national standards based on Newsela quality bars for standards alignment

Why you're a great fit:

Experience in education, as an educator, within public education or education technology
Prerequisite knowledge of subject-specific content in Social Studies
Experience outside of classroom in curricular and assessment work, including standards alignment and assessment design
Key understanding of state standards formats
Ability to recognize content concepts and tag standards accordingly
Current or former teaching experience preferred

This role is compensated on a per-task basis. The benefits listed below apply to full-time employees only.

About Newsela:

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.

Why you'll love working at Newsela:

Health & Wellness: Access to the world's leading medical experts for healthcare (pets included!). Discounts and resources to stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
Work From Home: Almost all of our roles are fully remote - tech stipend included!
Supporting ALL Families: Supplemental programs and time off to take care of your family and yourself.
Time Off: Flexible PTO to recharge, including Sabbatical Leave
Inclusive Experiences: Robust DEIB curriculum, Identity & Experience Groups (Affinity Groups + Employee Resource Group), Authentic & Transparent conversations with Executive Leadership Teams, and integration of DEIB lens across Talent lifecycle processes.
Professional Development: Holistic Learning & Development Programs that enable meaningful & inclusive experiences, programs that build future-focused competencies, cohort & community learning sessions that foster a sense of belonging, and individual development plans aligned with your personal and professional aspirations to turn goals into reality.
Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.