MPS STEAM Specialist Before​/After School Programs

STEAM Specialist

Build a STEAM program where students see themselves as scientists, designers, makers, and artists and where the project they start on Monday is something they can't wait to come back to on Tuesday. The STEAM Specialist designs and delivers Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math programming for K5 students at one of our four sites. This is hands-on, curiosity-driven work: design challenges, building projects, scientific investigations, digital tools, and arts integration that makes the technical content feel like play.

You will plan daily and weekly cycles in your area of expertise, and you will think carefully about entry points how a brand-new fifth grader and a kid who has been here since kindergarten can both find the right level of challenge in the same activity.

• Design the STEAM curriculum. Plan developmentally appropriate, engaging lessons for K5 students that move across science, engineering, digital tools, and the arts.
• Differentiate on purpose. Build activities with real entry points for beginners and deeper, extended work for students who are ready to go further.
• Lead the room. Run small- and large-group activities, model strong instruction, and bring culturally responsive practice into every lesson.
• Weave in SEL. Integrate social-emotional learning into the way students collaborate, share materials, and respond when a project doesn't work the first time.
• Meet every learner. Adapt curriculum and materials for students with IEPs, 504 plans, English learners, and students who need additional academic support.
• Partner across the building. Work with school-day teachers, families, and district staff so after-school content reinforces school-day priorities.
• Build the kit. Order, organize, and maintain the materials that make hands-on programming actually possible.

You have a bachelor's degree (preferred) in Education, fine arts- or science-field, or a related field or experience that demonstrates the applicable knowledge. You have planned and delivered a curriculum for K6 students in school or out-of-school-time settings. You have deep interest and skill in one or more STEAM areas and the range to design programming across them. Strong classroom management.

You can run an engaging activity with twenty kids and a lot of moving parts. Comfortable with differentiated instruction, informal assessment, and culturally responsive teaching. Excellent communicator with students, staff, families, and school partners. CPR/First Aid certified (or willingness to obtain) and meet MPS background check requirements.

A salaried, full-time position with a starting salary of $55,000. 186 days per year (follows MPS calendar- 180 school days, 5 days before school year, and 1 day after)

How to Apply

Please submit a resume and cover letter to Frontline. Questions can be sent to superintendent.ma.us or before-after school.ma.us