• Job Description

  Req#: 509201

  Department Overview:	Ignite is Teach For America’s national tutoring corps designed to accelerate learning and belonging with students, leveraging research-based best practices for high-impact tutoring. Ignite builds on Teach For America’s over 30 years of experience recruiting, developing, and supporting talent and partnering with communities across the country to help students overcome the systemic barriers to an excellent education. Teach For America Ignite brings exceptional leaders into classrooms virtually to add immediate value for students, while creating shifts towards the future of learning. Ignite is anchored in Teach For America’s 2030 goal: twice as many children in communities where we work will reach key educational milestones indicating they are on a path to economic mobility and co-creating a future filled with possibility. In a system that is hard to change, Teach For America cannot realize this goal without finding solutions that will meet the needs of students today and propel us forward toward system-level change. This is our chance to deepen partnership with schools and co-create an education system our young people deserve and the future demands.
  Anticipated Start Date:	September 8 - 29, 2026
  Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):	May 1, 2026
  Remote Work Eligibility Detail:	All Remote
  Anticipated Hours Per Week:	Minimum: 5 Maximum: 10
  Schedule:	During the average week as a fellow, you’ll spend 4-5 hours preparing for and delivering your small group tutoring lessons. You’ll tutor the same group of 2-4 students at least 3 times a week, delivering lessons provided by your Ignite Site Leader that you customize to meet your students’ interests and needs. Your Ignite Site Leader may have observed your tutoring session and emailed you some feedback that you are implementing into your tutoring practice. You’re doing all of this having selected the tutoring time that works best for your schedule and allows you to show up prepared and eager for each tutoring session!
  Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:	Minimum: $20.00
  Number of Positions:	10
  Qualifications:	In order to serve as an Ignite fellow, you must meet the following criteria: · Be available to work approximately 5-10 hours a week (~3 for tutoring and ~2 for preparation per group) during K-12 school hours for the duration of the semester · Be a current undergraduate or graduate student in fall 2025 · Have an undergraduate GPA of at least 2.5 (on a 4.0 scale) · Be at least 18 years old · Be authorized to work in the United States (be a citizen, national/legal resident, or eligible Employment Authorization Document (EAD) holder)
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:	-Deep belief in kids and families facing systemic barriers -Bold vision setting and the ability to create meaningful change -Effective collaboration with people from different backgrounds and perspectives -Desire to learn from people, experiences, and self-reflection
  Position Summary/Job Duties:	WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR · Build your tutoring skills during a one to two-week, ten-hour onboarding period · Tutor up to 2-4 students virtually during their school day 3-5 times a week consistently over the course of the semester, providing learning acceleration in elementary literacy, middle school math, or high school college and career access · Individualize tutoring sessions leveraging your school’s curriculum for elementary reading, middle school math learning, high school mentorship, or high school SAT prep with support from a school-based veteran educator · Build belonging with students through intentional relationship-building · Maintain a good working relationship with your Ignite Site Leader, a veteran educator who will support your tutoring practices, by consistently attending tutoring sessions and trainings as well as communicating proactively
  Physical Demands:	None
  Institutional Statements:	Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

• About the company

  The University of Wisconsin is a top-ranked research institution located in Madison, Wisconsin, providing exceptional education opportunities to undergraduates, graduate and professional students.

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