Facilitator of Learning - Science

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Job Title: Facilitator of Learning, Science / Interdisciplinary STEM

Reports To: Chief Academic Officer

Approved By: Board of Trustees

Date Revised: June 30, 2026

Job Classification: Full-Time, Exempt

Youth Build Preparatory Academy is looking for a Science Facilitator of Learning who can do more than teach from a textbook. We need an educator who can help students question the world, investigate real problems, use evidence, make meaning from data, and understand science as a tool for survival, innovation, health, justice, and community change.

The Science Facilitator of Learning serves as a teacher, advisor, curriculum designer, project coach, and member of an interdisciplinary learning community. This role is grounded in YBPA’s commitment to liberatory education, competency-based learning, project-based learning, and culturally responsive instruction. The ideal candidate understands that science should not be taught as disconnected facts to memorize. Science should help students understand their bodies, their communities, their environment, the systems around them, and the power they have to solve problems.

At YBPA, students demonstrate mastery through inquiry, experimentation, research, design challenges, data analysis, presentations, written explanations, exhibitions, portfolios, and real-world applications. The Science Facilitator of Learning must be able to design learning experiences that are rigorous, accessible, hands‑on, and connected to students’ lives.

Youth Build Preparatory Academy is a competency-based, project-based, interdisciplinary learning community rooted in liberatory education. We serve students who deserve more than a traditional school model that asks them to sit still, comply, and memorize information disconnected from their lives.

Our work is grounded in four core commitments:
Growth, Relationships, Agency, and Belonging. We believe students learn best when they are known well, challenged with purpose, and given opportunities to demonstrate mastery through meaningful work. We are building a school where students do not simply earn credits. They build identity, voice, skill, confidence, and a path toward their future.

The ideal Science Facilitator of Learning is:

Deeply committed to working with young people, especially students whose brilliance has too often been overlooked, underestimated, or misunderstood by traditional school systems.

Skilled at making science relevant, hands‑on, and connected to real‑world issues.

Able to design learning experiences that connect science to community health, environmental justice, technology, construction, design, sustainability, food systems, energy, the human body, and everyday decision‑making.

Comfortable teaching in an interdisciplinary model where science can connect with math, literacy, history, career pathways, public policy, entrepreneurship, and community action.

Strong at building relationships while maintaining clear expectations, structure, safety, and accountability.

Reflective, flexible, and willing to grow. This role requires an educator who can receive feedback, revise practice, and contribute to a developing school model.

Committed to eliminating proficiency gaps by changing adult practice, not by lowering expectations for students.

Grounded in the belief that students should have voice, choice, agency, and responsibility in their own learning.

Design and facilitate competency‑based science learning experiences aligned to YBPA’s curriculum, competencies, graduation expectations, and Rhode Island academic standards.

Develop project‑based units that allow students to demonstrate mastery through investigations, experiments, research projects, design challenges, presentations, written explanations, data analysis, exhibitions, and portfolios.

Teach scientific thinking, inquiry, evidence‑based reasoning, experimentation, observation, modeling, data interpretation, and technical communication.

Help students…