Facilitator of Learning - English Language Arts

• Employee Type Exempt Salary

• Name Anthony Hubbard

Job Title: Facilitator of Learning - English Language Arts / Interdisciplinary Humanities
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 not looking for traditional classroom managers. We are looking for educators who can design learning, build relationships, challenge old systems, and help students see themselves as thinkers, creators, leaders, and problem-solvers.

The 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 practice. The Facilitator of Learning must be able to move beyond worksheets, isolated lessons, and compliance-driven instruction. At YBPA, learning must be meaningful, rigorous, relevant, and connected to students’ lives, identities, communities, and futures.

The English Language Arts Facilitator of Learning is responsible for helping students strengthen their reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, storytelling, analysis, and communication skills through real-world projects, powerful texts, community-based inquiry, and student-centered demonstrations of mastery. This role requires an educator who can teach literacy across disciplines and help students use language as a tool for power, reflection, advocacy, creativity, and leadership.

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 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 building strong relationships with students while maintaining clear expectations, structure, and accountability.
• Able to design learning experiences that are competency-based, project-based, culturally relevant, and connected to real-world issues.
• Comfortable teaching in an interdisciplinary model where literacy, history, community, identity, career readiness, and civic engagement can intersect.
• Reflective, flexible, and willing to grow. This role requires an educator who can receive feedback, revise practice, and contribute to a developing school model.
• A strong communicator who can collaborate with colleagues, families, community partners, and students in direct, respectful, and solution-oriented ways.
• 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 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 writing, presentations, exhibitions, portfolios, research, discussion, creative products, and real-world application.
• Teach English Language Arts skills through meaningful texts, inquiry, storytelling, community issues, student voice, and interdisciplinary projects.
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