Tutor Educator Winter

Ignite Reading is hiring Tutor Educators to join our certification program and tutor students throughout the academic year.
In this hiring cycle, we are looking for individuals who can start onboarding in the new year (January 2027!).

Our Tutor Educators conduct daily, one-on-one virtual tutoring sessions lasting 15 minutes with the same students, five days a week, focusing on foundational reading skills.
Please note that we cannot consider applicants who reside in California, Illinois, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Seattle or the District of Columbia. Additionally, candidates who spend 51% or more of their time living and working outside of the United States are also ineligible. Finally, candidates must be eligible to work within the United States, successfully pass a background check, complete fingerprinting when required by Ignite Reading partners, and pass a sexual misconduct and former employment verification check.

Through our PAID training course in the Science of Reading Instruction, our Tutor Educators master instructional skills and teaching best practices grounded in research.

Ignite Tutor Educators MUST

Complete a 7-week Tutor Training Program.

Commit to a minimum of 3+ hours of consistent daily availability to provide high-quality, high-dosage tutoring to students.

Successful applicants must be able to:

• Navigate virtual platforms and personal computer hardware and software (including toggling between multiple screens and tabs).

• Positively receive and then implement feedback.

• Cultivate trusting, meaningful relationships with students and your peers

• Focus on outcomes and student learning with high attention to detail.

• Complete and meet deadlines for all ongoing coursework

• Approach each day of tutoring excited to work with students and hold our promises to them sacred!

• Practice empathy and understanding, hold high expectations for their students, and never ever give up on them.

• Arrive on time for all tutoring sessions and maintain strong attendance. Fulfill all duties associated with your role while representing the Ignite Reading program with the highest degree of professionalism.

• Deliver Ignite Reading’s curriculum with fidelity and record student data.

• Meet performance standards for attendance, punctuality, instruction, and student growth and learning.

Tutors are paid $17.50/per hour while you are successfully completing your training program.

After graduating from Tutor Training, tutors begin earning $20/per hour.

We require that hired tutors complete a 7-week Tutor Training Program that includes 3 weeks of tutoring (concurrent with training), during which you will tutor approximately 1-4 students. Below is a description of the time required for the Tutor Training Program and the practicum.

Tutor Training Program:

• Successful applicants must complete our Tutor Training Program.
• Training runs Monday - Friday, 5 days a week, for the entirety of the Tutor Training Program.
• Tutors join learning groups based on their availability with the below options being first come, first serve.
  • Options: 11 AM - 1 PM ET, 1 PM - 3 PM ET, and 3 PM - 5 PM ET
• Tutors commit to 2-hour classes daily, plus a minimum of 1 hour of tutoring daily in what we call “practicum” for the remaining 3 weeks of the training program.
• The Tutor Training Program consists of alternating synchronous, live sessions led by an Ignite Reading staff member, and asynchronous learning experiences, online virtual courses you complete independently. For example, tutors will be in live, synchronous classes up to 3 days a week and complete asynchronous learning 2 days a week. Attendance at live courses requires that tutors be on camera, in a stable location, and with strong internet…