Servant Leader Apprentice, Center for Black Educator Development

Posted by The Center for Black Educator Development on January 2, 2024

The Center for Black Educator Development exists to (re)build a national Black Teacher Pipeline to achieve educational and racial justice by ensuring there is equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators that reflect the cultural background and share common socio-political interests of the students they serve. Launched in June 2019, the Center for Black Educator Development is revolutionizing education by dramatically increasing the number of Black educators so that low-income Black and other disenfranchised students can reap the full benefits of a quality public education. Learn about our key strategies to build a national Black Teacher Pipeline by visiting our website.

As the Servant Leader Apprentice (SLA), with up to two Junior Servant Leaders (JSLs), you are leading a classroom of up to 10 Scholars in first, second, or third grade.  You are committed to Black excellence in education.  You are a self-starter who learns from your own areas of strength and growth.  You will work with up to 2 high school students, JSLs, to maximize learning outcomes with Scholars.  In order to accomplish this outcome, you feel a sense of responsibility over student outcomes, follow the Freedom Schools Literacy Academy (FLSA) curriculum, analyze data to understand student outcomes, draft lesson plans aligned to curriculum, attend professional development workshops and rigorously engage in practice.  You are receptive to feedback, in charge of classroom management, support JSLs to implement relevant instructional strategies, model professionalism for JSLs, manage their learning about literacy development and teaching, continuous improvement, and assume leadership in enrichment activities. You will also be responsible for engaging families through meetings, phone calls and email.

This is an in-person, seasonal position from September 2023 – May 2024.. From September to May participants will be required to work 5 days a week from 3 pm – 6 pm specific hours may vary from sites. You will be required to complete paid online  asynchronous training to prepare for the role.

Learn more and apply here.