HS ELA Content Specialist

Overview

At Chalk Talk, we believe that education is human. It is more than scores and statistics. Join a team that is transforming education and achieving up to 6× improvement in student learning outcomes.

Job Type: Full‑Time 1099 Contractor

Work Environment: Remote

Chalk Talk uses student assessments to generate digital courseware for every day in the course schedule. Every modular Chalk Talk lesson comes with teaching materials for the teacher, small group work and computer‑adaptive practice for students, and progress reports for administrators. Chalk Talk is currently used to power high‑school literacy and numeracy instruction district‑wide at some of the largest U.S. districts—including 7 of the top 100.

The company has 16 employees.

• Author gap lessons for existing English and Reading testing curricula (SAT, ACT, TSIA2, CLT).
• Create Reading and English lessons using standards knowledge and expertise.
• Author adaptive practice questions for each lesson that assess standards appropriately.
• Utilize existing style guide to ensure lessons are consistent with existing content.
• Conduct QA of new and existing content.
• Create metrics for defining high‑quality lessons.
• Use metrics to review existing content (SAT/ACT/TSI/English 9/10) and edit as necessary.
• Iterate on existing content by creating additional materials to improve user experience, such as foundation lessons and teacher engagement strategies.
• Review peer work to confirm alignment, rigor, accuracy, and edit for consistency and formatting.
• Create alignment guides.
• Align CCR curricula with state standards.
• Create customer‑facing documentation to show alignment.

• 8+ years teaching High School English or Reading or equivalent experience authoring or leading high‑school ELA curriculum and/or assessments in an EdTech, publishing, or district setting.
• Direct experience teaching, tutoring, or writing SAT and/or ACT content, including lesson authoring, assessment items, or test‑prep materials tied to measurable student outcomes.
• Hands‑on experience aligning curriculum or assessments to TEKS and/or Florida BEST standards.
• Strong understanding of ELA assessment structure, rigor, and standard interpretation.
• Familiarity with curriculum design best practices.
• Thrives in fast‑paced, iterative environments.
• Self‑starter who takes ownership and moves work forward independently.
• Highly organized, detail‑oriented, adaptable, and collaborative.

• Mission: Help provide the best education possible to everyone on the planet.
• Impact: In just 15 weeks, districts that bought Chalk Talk saw their students experience 2–6× more growth on official state tests compared to peers who received 52 weeks of traditional classroom instruction. Big impact with vulnerable student populations.
• Growth: The company has consistently grown, increasing revenue by double or more each year since 2019, and has 8 of the largest 100 school districts in the U.S. as customers.
• Awards:
  • 2020:
    Top 10 finalist out of 700+ companies at ASU+GSV Cup.
  • 2021:
    Winner of FETC’s Best in EdTech alongside Microsoft & Lego.
  • 2022:
    Winner of EdTech Week’s EdTech Cup in NYC.
  • 2023: “North America EdTech 200” by Holon
    
    IQ.
  • 2024: “The World’s Top EdTech Companies” by TIME Magazine & Statista.
• Accelerators: AWS EdStart, OnRamp Education Accelerator, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) NYC.