Director of Foundational Literacy

🕒 September 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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inquirED

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

Education • eCommerce • B2B

inquirED is an education technology company founded by teachers, dedicated to implementing inquiry-based learning in classrooms across the United States. The company provides a K–5 social studies curriculum that promotes engaging investigations in history, civics, geography, and economics, while integrating literacy skills through research-based practices. Their resources also support culturally responsive instruction, ensuring that students' voices and interests are valued and reflected in their learning experiences.

📋 Description

• Own the 0-to-1 instructional design of Inkwell’s foundational literacy strand across K–5 • Establish the research base, instructional principles, design rationale, and coherent vision for foundational reading and writing skills • Develop and maintain the scope and sequence and curriculum design specifications • Define lesson architecture, instructional routines, assessment approaches, and instructional quality criteria • Design additional practice, reteaching, acceleration, differentiated application, and small-group pathways • Support multilingual learners and students with reading difficulties while maintaining ambitious literacy expectations • Lead creation, prototyping, review, and refinement of lessons, routines, student materials, assessments, decodable texts, and teacher guidance • Personally perform detailed curriculum-design work and direct others against the larger instructional model • Establish review processes and provide academic direction, feedback, and coaching to curriculum developers, writers, and editors • Collaborate with curriculum, editorial, assessment, product, UX/design, production, and professional learning teams • Use assessment and field-testing data to evaluate and refine curriculum decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing or substantially shaping a multi-grade, systematic foundational literacy curriculum or comparably complex literacy program • Meaningful ownership of instructional architecture applied across many teachers and classrooms • Deep expertise in early literacy development and the science of reading • Ability to critically evaluate research and translate it into concrete curriculum-design decisions • Experience developing scope and sequence, curriculum architecture, instructional routines, lesson models, design specifications, and curriculum quality criteria at the program level • Ability to lead complex curriculum development from concept through execution • Experience balancing instructional integrity, development constraints, usability, and timeline • Experience reviewing materials and giving actionable feedback on instructional quality, developmental appropriateness, sequencing, clarity, and coherence • Strong understanding of assessment in early literacy • Knowledge of foundational literacy instruction for multilingual learners and students experiencing reading difficulty • Ability to codify complex pedagogical ideas into clear written specifications and guidance • Strong collaboration and project management skills • Familiarity with research databases, literacy frameworks, standards, curriculum evaluation tools, Google Suite, Airtable, curriculum mapping and scope-and-sequence tools, AI content generation and editing platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude • Must be U.S. based

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee-covered health care • Retirement match • Flexible PTO • 12+ observed days off • Biannual company retreats • Optional local meetups • Remote work-from-home flexibility • Technology package provided • Home office stipend • Educational and development opportunities • Monthly Brunch and Learns