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During the 2020-21 school year, Eskolta School Research and Design will begin to incorporate a culturally responsive sustaining pedagogical framework to support its current areas of practice as part of The Eskolta Network. We are seeking to connect with a small team of researchers to support Eskolta staff and the schools of the Eskolta Network as they research and design ways to incorporate CRSE practices into their Eskolta Network work. 

Responsibilities may include:

• Facilitating training for Eskolta staff to deepen their understanding of culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE)
• Collaborating with Eskolta staff to research current culturally relevant approaches at existing Eskolta Network Schools
• Developing a framework for how to incorporate a CRSE framework into the Eskolta Network, drawing upon research-based practices that highlight engagement of youth in learning
• Drafting and sharing school-based tools and materials to help teachers bring research into practice
• Sharing CRSE research and practices at four Eskolta Network convenings in New York City, Boston, and one other region to be determined annually
• Partnering with Eskolta staff to support Eskolta Network schools focusing on CRSE for the 2020-21 school year
• Documenting insights and practices from Eskolta Network practice to share with a wider audience and use as anchor materials for the network moving forward (authorship credit will be shared between researchers and Eskolta staff) 

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree with proven working experience with CRSE. Graduate students, or those who have recently completed a graduate degree preferred
• Experience teaching in, or working with teachers who work in marginalized communities 
• Training in critical race theory (CRT) 
• Interest and availability to work with Eskolta as a research partner for a two to three year period 

The research team will be hired for two years, with a possible option to renew for the third year. In addition: 

• Researchers will begin work in April or May 2020
• Total budget compensation for the two year  term is $58,000 ($20,000 for year one, $38,000 for year two.) Total budget includes travel and lodging expenses, related to work found in details of the contract

Our Mission 

Eskolta works with educators to create a more equitable society by fostering a culture of compassion, respect, and high expectations in public schools, so students who were once left behind can thrive.

Our Values

We seek to continuously challenge ourselves to exhibit respect, focus, balance, integrity, and justice. To that end, Eskolta strives to be an antiracist organization, using its influence to fight against social injustice by supporting a culture of learning, empowerment, and equity in our schools. Applicants should demonstrate a knowledge of and concern for issues of equity and justice and an understanding of how structural injustice has impacted the experience of underserved students.

The Eskolta Network

The Eskolta Network is an improvement community designed to connect educators in the shared challenge of transforming learning for students who have been under-served by our school system. Drawing on current research in three areas of practice, participating schools work together to explore problems, create practices and tools, test and modify them, and measure their impact. Together, we aim to confront the educational inequities driven by systems of racism and oppression in our nation and improve academic outcomes for students so they can thrive in high school and beyond. 

Current Eskolta Network Areas of Practice:

• Mastery-Based Learning: Create classroom routines, lessons, and units that focus on the development of specific explicit skills for comprehension.
• Strengths-Based Culture: Develop classroom and counseling environments that cultivate a sense of efficacy, belongingness, and purpose.
• Transparent Actionable Feedback: Create routines for students to get supportive critical feedback on their growth in school to help them learn from assessments. 

To Apply

Submit a résumé or CV and a cover letter that describes your philosophy on how to help teachers make the mindset shift needed to become culturally responsive practitioners to Danielle L. Green, Director of Operations (jobs@eskolta.org). Please include the position of interest in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Anti-discrimination Policy And Commitment To Diversity 

Eskolta is especially interested in collaborating with:

• Graduates of NYC Public Schools
• Individuals with experience working with NYC transfer schools
• Students or alumni of CUNY, SUNY or other local colleges

Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Eskolta is committed to actively working against racism within our organization, and externally in our work with partner schools and organizations. Eskolta provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees and prohibits discrimination with respect to the hiring or promotion of individuals, conditions of employment, disciplinary and discharge practices, or any other aspect of employment on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, disability, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.