AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM SPECIALIST TO MENTOR KIDS TO SUCCESS
The Civic Circle seeks an After-School Program Specialist to help deliver and expand our arts-based civic learning program for students age 8-13. The specialist will work with students in the classroom, help manage a team of part-time teachers, and assist with booking guest speakers and teaching artists. The specialist will also assist with communication with schools, parents and other stakeholders. Our program’s main focus is after-school workshops, but we also offer in-school assembly shows, and are piloting student arts contests and teacher training opportunities. The specialist will make a valuable social impact while gaining skills in teaching, program management, marketing, evaluation and nonprofit governance. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a creative, collaborative team pursuing an urgent and timely mission.
About The Civic Circle
The Civic Circle uses music and the arts to teach seven civic skills that we call “steps to democracy” to students in Eastern Montgomery County, helping close a well-documented equity gap in civic learning and engagement. Students learn civility (Listen!), news literacy (Learn!), voting (Choose!), service-learning (Join!), advocacy (Speak!), organizing (Act!), and public service (Lead!), empowering them to exercise civic clout in their schools, communities, nation and world. Students in our workshops do Social Studies activities, receive visits from civically engaged teen-and college-age mentors, and work with teaching artists to create and perform their own civic songs, poems, stories and art pieces.
The Civic Circle’s one-of-a-kind, equity-informed, multicultural program fills several important gaps in civic learning. We target elementary school-age children often overlooked in the Social Studies curriculum, we use performance-based learning to connect with diverse students, and we teach students the civic skills they will need to become voters and leaders in their communities. Civic learning correlates directly to improved academic achievement, fewer discipline incidents, college completion, and the development of skills that lead to employment.Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) with 160,000 Students is one of the nations largest school districts. Since schools have returned to the post-pandemic reality, students are being tested and tutored to address the alarming loss of learning. But school can only do so much. Students need to learn more than math or reading. They need to grow into becoming healthy human beings. Right now, they are under a lot of stress. This is where YOU come in.
Every child needs one-on-one adult attention, especially struggling students, who battle to believe in themselves. The Project CHANGE 2023-24 team will serve together to tackle this post- COVID19 challenge to learning.
Project CHANGE Montgomery began in 2001 as the original Montgomery County MD program of AmeriCorps, America's "Domestic Peace Corps. Places are available from late August 2023 to mid-August 2024 and members serve the county's most under-served K-12+ students.
In return, members receive:
- Professional Development weekly training
- $21500 living stipend
- $6,895 educational scholarship
- Health benefits including vision/dental
- Professional mentoring
- Peer support network and connection to AmeriCorps alumni
- Preference in hiring for many organizations
The positions offer an overall life-changing experience. Most positions are full-time (35 hours a week =1700 hours over a 12-month term) and some positions are half-time (17 hours a week =900 hours over a 12-month term).
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All applicants must be high school graduates and American citizens or permanent residents. Send a copy of your resume and a letter of interest and be prepared for an interview over June-July
Job Types: Contract, Full-time
Pay: $21,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Silver Spring, MD 20902: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: In person