Job Description:

The Opportunity

The Junior Scholastic team is seeking a highly engaged, creative, and collaborative middle school social studies expert to create the teaching support materials that accompany Junior Scholastic, our print and digital middle school social studies resource. This person will be a key member of our small, close-knit, and deeply committed team, and will have the opportunity to share their vision for how our rich nonfiction texts and multimedia tools can be used to engage middle schoolers, build core knowledge, and support social studies curricula.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities include:

• Writing lesson plans and support materials, including comprehension quizzes, vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, and other skill building activities.
• Working with the Junior Scholastic editor to develop curriculum connections for individual articles and to help plan long-term educational content strategies for the product.
• Pitching and judging contests designed to boost teacher engagement and underscore key educational strategies and knowledge growth for students.
• Supporting the creation of all teacher-facing communications, including teacher advisory board correspondence, subscriber newsletters, and social media campaigns.
• Monitoring subscriber feedback and organizing school visits and professional learning opportunities to help the team stay up-to-date on education trends, social studies curricula, and student/teacher needs.
• Helping the editorial team curate Junior Scholastic online content to maximize benefit and appeal to educators.

Who We Are

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum and professional services, and a producer of educational and entertaining children’s media. The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services that support children’s learning both in school and at home. With operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries, retail and online.  True to its mission of 100+ years to encourage the personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
• Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
• Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Generous Parental Leave Program
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

Qualifications

How You Can Fit (Qualifications)

Is This You?

• You have a deep understanding of middle school social studies pedagogy (to start!) and a strong desire to become a leader in the field.
• You have at least 2 years of experience in a similar role creating educational resources for the middle school classroom, OR you’re a passionate middle school social studies educator looking for a new challenge.
• You’re full of imaginative but pragmatic teaching ideas, and understand how lesson plans and other teaching resources translate to the classroom.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Job Family Group:

Guild

Location Region/State:

New York

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: 60,442.00 – 65,000.00

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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