ELab Teacher

Hamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County.

Learn more about working for Hamilton County Schools e.org and get to know us and our strategic plan, Opportunity 2030.

The purpose of this job is to to collaborate with K-12 classroom teachers to design and schedule projects (PBLs, Design Thinking, and Design Challenges) that align with content standards and push kids to think critically while using engineering design processes.

Join the dynamic and innovative team at Red Bank Middle School (RBMS) as our eLab Specialist — a Tennessee STEAM-designated school with deep roots in the Red Bank community and a bold vision for the future. At RBMS, you’ll join a collaborative learning community grounded in Engage, Collaborate, Create, where every student learns, belongs, and has access to meaningful, challenging experiences.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead hands-on learning that builds students’ technical skills and essential skills. Through design thinking, digital fabrication, and authentic problem-solving, you’ll help students move from an idea to a prototype while strengthening communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and perseverance. You’ll partner with teachers to connect classroom learning to the eLab, creating opportunities for students to design, test, refine, and share solutions to real-world challenges.

Our school culture amplifies student voice, celebrates identity and achievement, and connects learning to real-world impact through interdisciplinary STEAM experiences, Teach Rock integration, Connections courses, and an inclusive house system. As we grow innovative partnerships, including our MIT K–12 feeder partnership, you’ll help expand opportunities for students to see themselves as capable creators and problem-solvers. We are seeking an educator who combines high expectations, clear routines, and accessible instruction with a willingness to learn alongside students and colleagues.

If you are energized by innovation, collaboration, and helping students build skills for their futures, RBMS is the place to do meaningful work that truly matters.

• Assisting teachers by creating rubrics, graphic organizers for design thinking, timelines, and material lists for projects together.
• The lab may also be open to our school community during after school  open hours  and/or with special scheduling throughout the day.
• Facilitate students, families, and community members as they learn design thinking techniques and various digital fabrication software to examine complex problems and prototype solutions.
• Safely operate and perform scheduled maintenance, cleaning, troubleshooting basic malfunctions, fixing and/or finding a suitable technician for all equipment in the lab. Lab equipment includes state of the art digital fabrication equipment such as microcontrollers, robotics kits, 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, poster printer/laminator, a CNC router, as well as more traditional fabrication tools for woodworking, sewing, and a heat press (list is not inclusive).
• Responsible for teaching students and adults safe practices for all equipment in the lab and for ordering and organizing stock materials and replacement parts for all tools and machines.
• Part of a network of HCS Digital Fabrication Specialists that participate in professional development opportunities for…