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About Living Classrooms 

Founded in Baltimore in 1985, Living Classrooms Foundation is a Baltimore - Washington, DC nonprofit that disrupts the cycle of poverty and helps our community become safer, stronger, and healthier by building skills for life. Living Classrooms inspires children, youth, and adults to achieve their potential through hands-on education, workforce development, health and wellness, and violence prevention programming. Living Classrooms has developed a distinctive competency in experiential learning - learning by direct experience - or what we call "learning by doing." We utilize our environmental campuses, athletic fields, community centers, and historic ships as "living classrooms." We work with one child, one teen, one adult, and one family at a time to identify existing barriers towards success and provide resources and opportunities to help each person reach their full potential, thus supporting stronger family units and more resilient communities.  

While each of our program areas is distinct, in combination they create a powerful synergy. Our maritime heritage sites create opportunities for employment training. Our education programs use our environmental and maritime resources as living learning laboratories. Our employability programs create stronger communities that are better prepared to exercise environmental stewardship. 

About Fresh Start 

Living Classrooms Foundation is a non-profit organization, operated for the benefit of the community, providing hands-on education and job training, with a special emphasis on at-risk youth and groups from diverse backgrounds. The Foundation's Fresh Start Program is a 24-week program providing services through vocational, academic, and social skills development training to high-risk, out of school youth ages 16-19. Fresh Start is designed to mirror the workplace by giving participants an opportunity to practice job skills and attitudes as well as interpersonal skills that will help them in their careers and future endeavors. In addition to GED preparation, the program uses carpentry and woodworking as a medium to teach skills that are needed to be successful in any job: punctuality, cooperation, self-motivation, efficiency, work quality, and staying on task. 

Job Description 

The Academic Coordinator is responsible for providing individualized GED preparation and academic remediation for all students enrolled in the Fresh Start program. A bachelor's degree is required for this position. Teaching certifications and GED teaching experience are a plus. The Academic Coordinator is required to work from 9AM until 1PM, Monday through Friday, and is required to complete ongoing staff development training annually. 
The Academic Coordinator reports directly to the Program Director. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

 
 Facilitating and maintaining a classroom environment conducive to learning. 

Modeling a strong work ethic and modeling appropriate work behaviors. 

Directing classroom and alternate site instruction in math, science, English, and social studies. 

Administering, evaluating, and keeping accurate records of academic pre and post-tests for each student throughout the program, and keeping accurate records of all scores. (TABE, practice GED test, and the actual GED test). 

Registering eligible students for the Maryland State GED exam. 

Providing small group and one-on-one instruction. 

Implementing program policies and procedures on evaluation, incentives, and progressive discipline. 

Creating and facilitating active and experiential lessons and activities. 

Implementing program policies and procedures on evaluation, incentives, and progressive discipline. 

 Participating in all Fresh Start meetings and training sessions. 

Coordinating with all staff to develop a plan that addresses the educational needs of each student. 

Becoming familiar with and utilizing the instructional facilities and resources of Living Classrooms Foundation. 

Entering data into and analyzing data from the Fresh Start database. 

 Ordering and keeping track of all supplies needed for GED education. 

Providing a brief written bi-weekly report on the educational progress of each student currently enrolled in the program.