Curriculum Developer, K-12 Education

Curriculum Developer, K-12 Education Full Description

• Oakland, CA, USA
  Employees work in a hybrid mode
• Full-time
• Compensation: USD 70,000 - USD 80,000 - yearly

Galileo Learning's mission is to develop innovators who envision and create a better world.

We provide out-of-school enrichment programs that build innovation skills, growth mindset, and creative confidence across a variety of offerings. We run neighborhood summer day camps for families, deliver expanded learning programs for school districts, and empower educational institutions and service providers with curriculum and instructional support.

We bring our mission to life through the Galileo Innovation Approach (GIA): combining mindset, process, and knowledge to drive meaningful outcomes for students and for each other. This shows up in how we collaborate, make decisions, and continuously improve our work.

We are:

• Visionary: We think beyond what exists today and work toward what’s possible.
• Courageous: We take ownership, make decisions with imperfect information, and lean into challenges.
• Collaborative: We work across teams and perspectives, assuming positive intent and building strong partnerships.
• Determined: We follow through, hold a high bar for quality, and stay focused on delivering results that matter for our students and partners
• Reflective: We learn from experience, use data and feedback to improve, and continuously evolve how we work.

The Curriculum Developer designs the imagination-sparking STEAM projects and curriculum at the heart of every Galileo educational product. The job includes carrying an idea from initial prototype – say, a cardboard castle with a working drawbridge – through testing and refinement, to a gif-based facilitation guide an instructor can pick up and teach with confidence. While the role is primarily focused on curriculum development and production, it also includes developing and delivering instructor training.

For 25 years, Galileo has been offering best-in-class, STEAM-based summer camps that build creative confidence, growth mindset, and innovation skills for kids from kindergarten through eighth grade. Today, we serve kids at nearly 100 flagship Camp Galileo sites and now, through Galileo X Solutions, also empower school district staff and community-based organizations to deliver our programs for their summer, after school, or intersession offerings.

This role sits within the Educational Product team – the group that builds the programs, tools, and systems that make Galileo educational enrichment experiences possible – and reports to the Director of Educational Product. The Curriculum Developer works closely with other Educational Product team members and partners with the Supply Chain team to curate and specify instructional materials.

Success in this role requires serious creativity and tinkering skills, an approach to development grounded in the real needs of instructors and the children they teach, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced production environment. It also calls for big-picture thinking while still sweating the smallest details, and the openness to embrace an iterative and feedback-driven, collaborative design process.

Every Galileo lesson reaches thousands of educators and tens of thousands of children.

That impact starts with a kernel of an idea – a mini golf game with paint-stirrer walls, a secret safe with a pneumatic deadbolt, a rideable rocking pet made from a reinforced cardboard box – that the Curriculum Developer might dream up on a Tuesday afternoon. From there, it becomes a catalyst that shapes what materials get ordered, what instructors say in the classroom, and what kids actually build with their own two hands.

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