Description
About Legends Fellows - Academic Tutor and Mentor (entry-level, paid, full-time)
Gap Year Opportunity to Serve your School/Community
Legends Fellows, an AmeriCorps and Service Year Alliance program, helps students at Legends Charter School succeed. A diverse team of Legends Fellow AmeriCorps members support students, classrooms, and the whole school, helping to ensure that students receive a high-quality education that prepares them with the skills and mindset to thrive and contribute to their community.
What You'll Do
As a First Year Legends Fellow AmeriCorps member, your service will focus on coaching and mentoring elementary and/or middle school students who are struggling in school. You will help these students earn academic success, improve their attendance, learn social-emotional skills and develop positive behaviors at school. You will plan and monitor individual student progress and also work with teachers on whole-class instruction, breakout spaces, and other in-class student assistance. With your team, you will support afterschool programming and develop whole school activities to promote a positive school climate and encourage schoolwide student engagement.
Positions are full-time (1700 hours during a 10-month term).
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a valued member of the school community, you will share in some or all of the responsibilities listed below. If you have not done all these things, that is okay. We don't expect you to come in knowing how to do them and provide 2-4 weeks of training to support you at the beginning of the year. Plus, you will work with partner teachers and school staff every step of the way. If you're interested in the role, we'd love for you to apply so we can learn a bit more about why this might be the right opportunity for you!
To support academic coaching and social-emotional development for students, you will:
- Work with identified students 1:1 and in small groups
- Create and implement literacy and/or math-focused class content
- Develop literacy and/or math skills by varying learning activities by student level, answering student questions, and encouraging assignment completion
- Create and implement a behavior management system for students
- Help build a safe, healthy, and supportive classroom environment
- Develop social-emotional skills throughout their day, using proven strategies of learning, practicing, reflection and repetition
- Provide attendance coaching, including placing calls to the homes of students to recognize performance, understand attendance issues, and assess technology needs, as applicable
- Collaborate with teachers and team members to collect, record, analyze and monitor individual student progress, participating in facilitated reviews of student data collected and entered into City Year's student data system
- Create an engaging classroom space in collaboration with the teacher, such as leading warm-ups and energizers, creating aspirational or instruction content-related posters and videos, etc.
- Represent Legends Fellow and AmeriCorps by wearing an Equity Now-issued uniform, including the Legends Fellow and AmeriCorps logos.
Support Whole School initiatives to increase engagement with students and their families:
- Support start of day and transition times, such as hallways, recess, morning greeting and end of day departures for students
- Support and/or conduct extended day and virtual programming for students before, during and after school including, but not limited to, academic enrichment and intervention, homework support, recreation and student clubs, service learning, and leadership development
- Provide drop-in or enrollment-based homework assistance to individual students outside of school hours in the schoolhouse or virtually
- Create, support and/or co-lead events or programs that recognize and appreciate student growth and/or achievement in math, literacy, attendance, and behavior
- Engage students, parents/guardians, and/or community members in education or social issues through member-led themed events at schools or on virtual platforms
Other initiatives:
- Lead or participate in occasional physical service projects and school community events that engage other volunteers, which may take place during nights or weekends
- Engage in remote service opportunities coordinated by the local AmeriCorps State Commission with approval from the Impact Manager (supervisor)
- Create team resources such as documenting best practices, creating demonstration videos and video testimonials, creating lesson plans, and designing service projects
Note: As appropriate to the activity and at the direction of the school district, school partner, and/or Equity Now your service, training and development may be delivered in-person or through a virtual platform such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Classrooms.
Legends Fellow Benefits
You will receive:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Bi-weekly living stipend
- Workers' compensation
- University partnerships and scholarships
- Career Partners
- Legends Fellow / AmeriCorps Uniform parts
- Career Experience
- Training, Professional Development, and Mentorship
- Financial Education Counseling
- The positions offer an overall life-changing experience.
AmeriCorps and other federally-issued Benefits
You will be eligible for:
- Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
- Child care benefits paid by AmeriCorps
- Loan forbearance and interest accrual payments for qualified student loans
- Time accrual toward the U.S. Department of Education's Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, (see Reduction of Education Costs)
- Income-based Loan Repayment Plan (IBR)
Eligibility Requirements
Legends Fellow AmeriCorps members are as diverse a group as the communities we serve. We're looking for you if you want to build yourself, give back, and are ready to change the world.
- Be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident (Authorization to work in the U.S. is not sufficient. Those with DACA status, unfortunately are not eligible at this time)
- Have a GED or high school diploma, some college experience, or a college degree
- Have served no more than three terms in an AmeriCorps state or national program*
- Agree to complete a background check
- This AmeriCorps service opportunity is age dependent. You must be between the ages of 18 and 25 to be eligible for this service opportunity.
How to Apply
Visit My AmeriCorps - Login and apply online.
For more information on how to apply, visit: https://equitynowinc.org/legends-fellow
* Individuals may receive no more than the value of two full-time education awards. If you have received the equivalent of more than one full-time education award, you are eligible to serve and receive a discounted award.
** Certain locations have earlier start dates.
Job Type: Full-time Paid Volunteer
Pay: $1,800 Living Allowance per month
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Limited Weekend availability
