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Mathnasium

Math Learning Center Director

Chicago, IL · On-site

$50K - $55K/yr

Opportunities for professional development * Continuous training on education, sales, and ... Administer student assessments, identify learning gaps, and develop customized learning plans

National Safety Council

Learning Content Editor

Itasca, IL · On-site

$70K - $75K/yr

Demonstrated experience editing instructional, educational, technical, or professional learning content. * Strong command of grammar, syntax, and editorial style conventions (e.g., Chicago Manual of ...

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National Safety Council

Learning Content Editor

Itasca, IL · On-site +1

$70K - $75K/yr

Demonstrated experience editing instructional, educational, technical, or professional learning content. * Strong command of grammar, syntax, and editorial style conventions (e.g., Chicago Manual of ...

National Safety Council

Learning Content Editor

Itasca, IL · Remote

$70K - $75K/yr

Demonstrated experience editing instructional, educational, technical, or professional learning content. * Strong command of grammar, syntax, and editorial style conventions (e.g., Chicago Manual of ...

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How much do professional learning jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 9, 2026, the average hourly pay for professional learning in Chicago, IL is $23.14, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $17.07 and $28.46 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Professional Learning vs Teacher?

AspectProfessional LearningTeacher
CredentialsOften requires certifications in education or trainingRequires teaching credentials or licenses
Work EnvironmentWorkshops, seminars, online courses, professional development settingsClassrooms, schools, educational institutions
Employer & IndustryEducational organizations, corporations, training providersSchools, districts, educational institutions
Search & Comparison IntentLooking to improve skills or certifications in educationSeeking teaching roles or classroom positions

Professional Learning focuses on enhancing skills and knowledge through training and development, often for educators or corporate trainers. Teachers are professionals who deliver instruction in classrooms. While both roles are connected to education, Professional Learning is about the ongoing development of educators, whereas teachers are the practitioners implementing education directly with students.

What are some professional learning opportunities?

Professional learning opportunities for those in the field include workshops, conferences, online courses, certifications, and continuing education programs. These options help develop skills, stay current with industry trends, and often require time management and commitment to ongoing development.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a professional learning specialist, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Professional Learning Specialist, you need expertise in instructional design, adult learning theory, and a background in education or training, often supported by a relevant degree. Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS), virtual training platforms, and assessment tools is typically required. Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills help engage adult learners and collaborate with stakeholders. These competencies ensure effective knowledge transfer, engagement, and measurable learning outcomes in professional development settings.

How do professionals in a professional learning role typically collaborate with educators and administrators to implement new training initiatives?

Professionals in a Professional Learning role often work closely with teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators to design and deliver effective training programs. They typically assess the needs of staff, tailor professional development sessions to address those needs, and provide ongoing support through workshops, coaching, or feedback sessions. Collaboration is key, as these professionals facilitate open communication, gather input, and ensure that training aligns with school or district goals. This partnership-driven approach helps build trust and ensures that professional learning initiatives are both relevant and sustainable.

What is professional learning?

Professional learning refers to ongoing education and development activities that help individuals improve their skills, knowledge, and effectiveness in their careers. It often involves workshops, seminars, courses, or collaborative learning experiences designed to keep professionals up-to-date with the latest trends, research, and best practices in their field. Professional learning is essential for career growth, adaptability, and maintaining high standards of practice.
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Infographic showing various Professional Learning job openings in Chicago, IL as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 71% Full Time, 23% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 89% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 10% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $48,133 per year, or $23.1 per hour.

Inclusive Responsive Education Specialist

Chicago Public Schools

Chicago, IL • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

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Job description

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a district on the rise, serving over 325,000 students in 500+ schools and employing over 45,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life. Aligned with our transformed philosophy, we are steadfastly focused on ensuring that the District provides resources equitably to support every student, every school, and every community. Six core values guide the work we do every day for our students - student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning. Each role in the district supports our vision that every student deserves a rigorous, joyful, and equitable learning experience.
The Chicago Public School's Instructional Core Vision centers identity, community, and relationships, which is called the "Inner Core." Located within the Office of Teaching and Learning, the Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement leads the district's "inner core" strategy to ensure all aspects of schooling in CPS are inclusive of and responsive to the lived experiences of our students and families.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Inclusive and Responsive Education Manager, the Inclusive and Responsive Education Specialist will collaborate closely with cross-departmental Content Specialists, as well as other CPS teams such as The Department of Professional Learning and the Department of Distributed Leadership to ensure a coherent vision for student-centered, responsive, and inclusive values and practices are scaled throughout CPS. This role will be responsible for leveraging experience and expertise in the areas of student voice, and responsive, participatory, inclusive, and democratic education in support of the district's Instructional Core vision. The primary objective of the Inclusive and Responsive Education Specialist will be to support the design and implementation of guidance, resources, policy, curriculum enrichment, and professional learning experiences that:
  • Center responsive and affirming curriculum, instruction, and assessment across all content areas, and
  • Uplift inclusive, responsive, and affirming practices across school teams and within decision-making structures in schools.

This position will also support the implementation of the Instructional Core strategy and help inform and execute a focused "Inner Core" quality alignment process for all internal and external district-level curriculum and professional learning. This is a full-time, exempt position that will be paid for time worked on a salary basis
The Inclusive and Responsive Education Specialist will be held accountable for the following responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and facilitate universal and curriculum-based professional learning (PL) that advances culturally responsive and inclusive systems and structures across:
    • All CPS content areas (Math, English Language Arts (ELA), Science, Social Science, World languages, PK, Spanish Language Arts (SLA), Computer Science, Arts, Health and Physical Education), grade levels (PreK-12), and
    • All areas of schools: CPS teams (Instructional Leadership Teams, Administration, Content Departments, Behavior Leadership Teams, etc.); and continuous improvement decision-making systems and structures (continuous learning cycles, CIWP, SQRP, etc)
  • Ensure professional learning content created for internal and external stakeholders deepens their understanding of culturally responsive and inclusive culture, curriculum, and instruction, and the practices that support it
  • Work in collaboration with CPS academic and cross-content departments and external partners to ensure shared understanding and implementation of the Instructional Core vision centered in identity, community, and relationships. Maintain expertise in the fields of culturally responsive pedagogy, democratic education, and student voice and leadership through staying abreast of current research, practices, and innovation in the field
  • Ensure professional learning for CPS Network Chiefs/Deputies, Instructional Support Leaders (ISLs), school leaders, central office instructional leaders, external partners, and other educators successfully achieves the following:
    • Leads educators in developing, implementing, and refining professional learning plans that ensure the prioritization and support of district-wide learning and decision-making centered on the identities, relationships, and communities of our students, their families, and our teachers
    • Builds their capacity in supporting school leaders and teacher leaders with responsive and inclusive pedagogical values and practices
    • Prepares them to lead inclusive, responsive school-based learning through coaching, team meetings, workshops, etc.
  • Ensure professional learning for Teacher Leaders successfully achieves the following:
    • Supports them in ensuring their contributions to their schools' Instructional Leadership Teams are anchored in responsive and inclusive practices that promote identity work and strong relationships and community
    • Builds their capacity to lead their colleagues in content-specific learning and reflection grounded in student voice. Create curriculum and content for a digital library of asynchronous resources that drives "Inner Core" practices and instructional shifts across all Pre-k-12 content areas, school teams and decision-making spaces.
  • Develop responsive and inclusive content for supporting teams and school leaders in advancing curriculum-based professional learning (design and delivery) at scale for multiple CPS stakeholders (e.g., teachers and school leaders, central office team members, network teams, external partners) in order to facilitate implementation across all content areas and grade levels
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of Skyline content and continuous learning of district staff by:
    • Evaluating professional learning outcome data to inform future professional learning needs
    • Identifying, documenting, and offering solutions around barriers to shifts in practice
    • Participating in centralized feedback structures to inform growth and development of the district's "Inner Core" strategy
  • Support the development of content-, school team-, and school context-specific guidance, resources, and policy to ensure a consistent representation of the "Inner Core" is promoted in all content areas, and within/across teams. Collaborate with cross-content teams (OLCE, ODLSS, OSEL, OECE) to design professional learning that is student-centered and promotes inclusive and responsive practices, incorporating best practices for supporting all students (English Learners, Diverse Learners, SEL perspectives) across all content areas and grade-levels, at scale.
  • Model the intentional, effective use of culturally responsive and inclusive practices, values, and decision-making in professional learning contexts and daily work - including communications, organization, and management tasks.
  • Other related duties as assigned

In order to be successful and achieve the above responsibilities, the Inclusive and Responsive Education Specialist must possess the following qualifications:
Education Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study from an accredited college or university, required
  • Valid teaching certificate/Professional Educator's License (PEL) issued by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) with appropriate content and/or grade level endorsement(s) is required.
  • LBSI, ESL, or Bilingual Endorsement, preferred
  • Master's degree in a relevant field of study, preferred

Experience Required:
  • Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience, including the following, is required:
    • Minimum of three (3) years of classroom teaching experience
    • Minimum of three (3) years of teacher or school leadership experience, such as leading school teams in the development of curriculum and assessments, analyzing student performance data, etc.
    • Minimum of three (3) years working with adult learners, including creating, organizing, and facilitating professional learning experiences to meet the needs of participants.
  • Experience leading others in culturally responsive pedagogy, equity and inclusion, civic learning, and/or student voice and leadership is preferred
  • Experience designing and/or delivering human-centered professional learning and/or experience with human-centered design is preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Deep commitment to equity, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, and transformative learning experiences for all students and adults in CPS
  • Strong knowledge of anti-racist practices in education; knowledge of anti-bias, anti-racist, and anti-adultist pedagogy; commitment to providing an educational environment free of discrimination and bias
  • Commitment to CPS Instructional Core Vision
  • Ability to build inclusive and participatory classrooms, schools, and learning experiences: including student voice in decision-making in any/all aspects of schooling
  • Strong understanding of the needs of adult learners and learning science, and practices that support all learners in the classroom, including English Language Learners and Diverse Learners.
  • Expertise in reimagining adult and youth learning experiences through planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating transformative professional learning
  • Knowledge of research-based practices; maintains up-to-date knowledge of changing or emerging best practices, concepts and standards in the areas of identity work, anti-bias work, dialogue and deliberation; inquiry learning; and building inclusive systems and structures that elevate varied voices (including youth) in decision making in any/all aspect of schooling
  • Knowledge of:
    • WIDA ELD Standards
    • Understanding by Design principles for curriculum design
    • Universal Design for Learning principles for instructional design
    • MTSS and SEL best practices
  • Exceptional organizational skills; ability to effectively manage several work streams simultaneously
  • Capable of building and sustaining positive, productive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating and communicating across a diverse range of audiences, including network teams, principals, teachers, and support staff
  • Ability to build consensus and leverage expertise with educators across the district
  • Exceptional project management and time management capabilities
  • Strong analytic and critical thinking skills and strong ability to analyze data, define problems, and outline valid conclusions and action steps.
  • Capable of using data to identify development needs
  • Excellent technology skills (Google Suite)

Conditions of Employment
As a condition of employment with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), employees are required to:
• Establish/Maintain Chicago Residency - Employees are required to live within the geographic boundaries of the City of Chicago within six months of their CPS hire date and maintain residency throughout their employment with the district. The Chicago residency requirement does not apply to temporary/part-time positions, however, all CPS employees must be residents of Illinois.
Benefits:
Health & Wellness: Your Care, Your Choice
CPS is committed to providing comprehensive health coverage to our employees and their eligible dependents. You'll have access to a variety of choices to best fit your needs:
  • Medical Plan Options
  • Pharmacy
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Behavioral Health & EAP
  • Employee Wellness Program

Financial Security: Planning for Today and Tomorrow
We understand the importance of financial stability, which is why CPS offers strong retirement and savings options:
  • Basic Life Insurance
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Pension Plans
  • Supplemental Retirement Plans (403(b) and 457(b))
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Spot Pet Insurance

Work-Life Balance: Supporting Your Personal and Professional Life
CPS values the well-being of its employees and offers competitive paid time off policies:
  • Paid Leave
  • Sick Leave
  • Vacation Days
  • Parental Leaves
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Religious Holidays
  • Leaves

Reference the Chicago Public Schools: A Comprehensive Benefits Overview or the benefits handbook for comprehensive details.

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