2026 - 2027: Elementary Makerspace Teacher

Bricolage; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Bricolage Academy in New Orleans is seeking a Makerspace Teacher to lead the elementary makerspace program, guiding students through design thinking, coding tools, and hands-on projects.

The role emphasizes creating an innovative, inclusive classroom culture with a focus on safety, collaboration, and community involvement. Requirements include 3+ years of teaching and 1+ year in project-based learning.

Qualifications

• Strong belief in Bricolage Academy’s mission, vision and core values.
• Strong belief in and commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive educational access and equitable outcomes.
• Strong belief in and commitment to the city of New Orleans.
• At least 3 years of teaching experience.
• At least 1 year of project-based teaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Building an innovative makerspace program with a clear mission and vision.
• Developing curriculum, scopes, and sequences for grade levels.
• Selecting curricular resources, materials, and equipment.
• Planning and leading lessons that emphasize innovation, problem solving, and collaboration.
• Differentiating instruction to meet individual student needs and integrating technology.

Skills

Project-based teaching

Education

Degree in an innovation field

Portfolio demonstrating proficiency in Innovation

Job description

2026 - 2027: Elementary Makerspace Teacher

Bricolage Academy is searching for a Makerspace Teacher. Bricolage is a New Orleans charter school that started in 2013 with a Kindergarten and has been growing one year, and one grade, at a time ever since.

BRICOLAGE ACADEMY OVERVIEW

Instructional Model

At Bricolage Academy, students have four co-curricular experiences – visual art, music, physical education, and makers space (a combination of design thinking technology, and engineering basics). These classes are designed to introduce students to the basic concepts and principles of different types of art, music, innovation, and physical education so that they can make better informed decisions about which type to specialize in in high school.

The makers space teacher has a variety of tools at their disposal, including coding programs, an X-Carve CNC carving machine, Arduinos, and basic circuitry components. They are responsible for supporting students through the design thinking process to help achieve our mission of creating innovators who change the world.

DUTIES

Specifically, the Makers Space Teacher is responsible for:

Building an innovative program including:

Scripting and communicating an overall mission and vision for the program at Bricolage

Developing curriculum including grade level course descriptions, scopes and sequences/progression rubrics

Selecting curricular resources, materials, and equipment

Planning and leading lessons and activities that:

Emphasize innovation, problem solving, respect, and courage

Include a balance of sequential, age appropriate activities such as envisioning, planning, building, and creating

Student outcomes. We use multiple measures to assess student learning and preparedness, but it’s on the lead teachers to deliver.

Creating a classroom culture where students:

Share in its ownership

Treat each other with empathy and act with integrity

Learn how to be responsibly autonomous

Providing appropriate safety instruction and performing routine safety checks

Differentiating instruction to meet the needs of each individual student

Integrating technology, innovation, and design thinking into instruction

Being an active member of the school community including assuming before, during, and after school duty posts, advising/mentoring small groups of students and attending school activities and events

Developing relationships with colleagues, students and their families

Some other things you should know about us:

Bricolage is a diverse community, but we are committed to being an anti-racist one. This means devoting time to understand what racism is, exploring how it manifests, and taking actions to dismantle it. Also, Bricolage's diversity is not itself an end. Rather, we believe our diversity is a means to amplifying empathy, advancing equity and facilitating creativity and innovation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

Strong belief in Bricolage Academy’s mission, vision and core values

Strong belief in and commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive educational access and equitable outcomes

Strong belief in and commitment to the city of New Orleans

At least 3 years of teaching experience

At least 1 year of project-based teaching experience

Preferred

Degree in an innovation a related field OR a portfolio of work demonstrating you proficiency in Innovation

Success as a teacher with a predominantly middle to high income student population and success as a classroom teacher with a predominantly low income population

Familiarity with/experience using one or more of the following: Responsive Classroom, Love & Logic, Restorative Practices

Familiarity with/experience using culturally responsive teaching strategies

Bricolage Academy does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.