Position: Facilitator of Learning – Multiple Subject Areas (Teachers)
Facilitator of Learning – Multiple Subject Areas (Teachers)
Youth Build Preparatory Academy is looking for core academic Facilitators of Learning who can do more than deliver lessons. We need educators who can design learning, build relationships, support student mastery, and help young people see themselves as thinkers, creators, leaders, problem-solvers, and contributors to their communities.
At YBPA, the role of the teacher is different by design. We are building a competency-based, project-based, interdisciplinary, liberatory learning community where students demonstrate what they know and can do through meaningful work. The Facilitator of Learning serves as a teacher, advisor, curriculum designer, project coach, assessor of mastery, and member of an interdisciplinary academic team. This role requires an educator who can connect academic content to students' lives, identities, communities, future goals, and real-world issues.
Whether teaching English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, or Social Studies, the Facilitator of Learning must help students build skill, voice, confidence, agency, and purpose. This is not a role for someone who only wants to follow a textbook, assign packets, or measure success by task completion alone. YBPA needs educators who can plan with intention, facilitate with care, assess with clarity, and hold students to high expectations without recreating the conditions that caused too many students to disengage from school in the first place.
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, accountability, and academic urgency.Able to design competency-based and project-based learning experiences that are rigorous, relevant, accessible, and connected to real-world issues.Comfortable teaching in an interdisciplinary model where English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies connect to identity, community, civic engagement, leadership, student voice, and real-world problem-solving.Reflective, flexible, and willing to grow. This role requires an educator who can receive feedback, revise practice, and contribute to a developing school model.Strong at helping students move from confusion to clarity through coaching, feedback, revision, modeling, and meaningful support.Able to support students with varied academic needs, learning differences, language needs, executive functioning needs, and levels of readiness.Committed to eliminating proficiency gaps by changing adult practice, not by lowering expectations for students.Collaborative and willing to plan with colleagues, support school wide priorities, and contribute to a shared instructional model.Grounded in the belief that students should have voice, choice, agency, and responsibility in their own learning.Instruction and Learning Design
Design and facilitate competency-based learning experiences aligned to YBPA's curriculum, competencies, graduation expectations, course outcomes, and applicable Rhode Island academic standards.Develop project-based units that allow students to demonstrate mastery through meaningful products, performances, presentations, exhibitions, portfolios, research, written work, problem-solving, inquiry, analysis, and real-world application.Create lessons that are accessible, rigorous, culturally responsive, developmentally appropriate, and connected to students' lived experiences and future goals.Teach course-specific content and skills while helping students understand why the learning matters beyond the classroom.Use clear learning targets, success criteria, rubrics, exemplars, student conferences, revision cycles, and reflection to support mastery.Provide differentiated instruction and academic support for students with varied learning needs, including students with IEPs, ILPs, multilingual learners, and students needing additional intervention.Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening, research,…
