Newsela · 3 hours ago
Learning Experience Designer, ELA Supplemental
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expNewsela is seeking a Learning Experience Designer (LXD) to develop and produce high-quality instructional materials for their K-12 English Language Arts (ELA) product. This role focuses on creating engaging, standards-aligned lessons and assessments while ensuring adherence to best practices in ELA pedagogy.
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Responsibilities
Material Authoring: Directly write, design, and structure detailed lessons, activities, and student worksheets/interactives based on established instructional models and product specifications
Text Selection and Editing: Identify, vet, and edit grade-appropriate student-facing texts (fiction and non-fiction) to ensure they align with ELA learning objectives and provide rich opportunities for skills practice
Assessment Design: Develop clear and concise low-stakes formative and summative assessment items and rubrics (e.g., multiple-choice, short answer, essay prompts) that effectively measure student progress against specific learning outcomes and standards
Quality Assurance: Review and provide focused editorial and pedagogical feedback on content drafts produced by internal teams or external contributors or vendors, ensuring accuracy, fidelity to the curriculum model, and student engagement
Instructional Application: Apply fundamental, evidence-based principles of learning science, including best practices for reading comprehension, language or vocabulary acquisition, and writing mechanics, to the design of every lesson, activity and assessment
Science of Reading: Stay up to date with research and best practices for teaching students how to leverage the pillars of the science of reading including phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, reading comprehension and vocabulary
Standards Adherence: Ensure all content development strictly adheres to relevant state ELA standards across the K-12 continuum
Accessibility and Scaffolding: Design materials with embedded scaffolds and differentiation strategies to make content accessible and meaningful for a wide range of learners, including Multilingual Learners (MLLs)
Team Coordination: Work effectively with freelance contributors, other learning experience designers, and product managers to ensure content quality is consistently high
Feedback: Provide detailed and consistent feedback to contributors to ensure output meets Newsela’s high quality standards. Ensure all feedback is rooted in documentation from Newsela or in ELA best practices
Organization: Prioritize and deliver work on time and within Newsela’s standards of quality. Understand Newsela’s quality standards and their purposes, so they can be effectively applied across all content
Learning Design: Translate high-level blueprints into detailed design specifications and content outlines that guide a scalable and consistent content development process that leverages AI tools, human contributors and staff
Qualification
Required
Education: Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Curriculum & Instruction, English, Journalism or a related field
Experience: 3+ years of experience in K-12 curriculum development, instructional design, or content creation, preferably for an educational technology or publishing company
ELA Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of K-12 ELA pedagogy, standards, and effective teaching methods
Content Skills: Excellent writing and editing with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality, polished instructional content
Fluency with AI tools
Other: Strong organizational skills as well as verbal communication skills and ability to prioritize and re-prioritize in conjunction with business needs
Preferred
Prior classroom teaching experience (K-12 ELA)
Experience working with digital content authoring tools or content management systems (CMS)
Company
Newsela
Newsela is an Ed-tech startup that takes content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$172.16MKey Investors
TCVKleiner PerkinsOwl Ventures
2021-02-25Series D· $100M
2019-03-13Series C· $50M
2017-02-01Series B
Leadership Team
Pep Carrera
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Cogan-Drew
Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer
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