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Freelance Content Leveler (Science)

Newsela

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Job summary

Join a leading EdTech company as a Content Leveler, where you'll adapt articles to various reading levels, ensuring accessibility for all students. Your role will involve editing and writing, with a focus on empathy and clarity, to enhance educational resources. This position is remote and offers a unique opportunity to impact K-12 education positively.

Qualifications

  • Experience in EdTech, tech or media organizations.
  • Familiarity with Newsela products.

Responsibilities

  • Adapting reading levels of articles for diverse audiences.
  • Monitoring articles for mistakes and inaccuracies.

Skills

Editing
Writing
Empathy

Education

Degree in STEM
Degree in Science Writing
Secondary Degree in Education

Job description

What do Content Levelers do?

Our Content Levelers bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but they are all united by their passion for improving the lives of teachers and students, and their commitment to developing engaging, student-centered, and culturally responsive resources. Content Levelers are ultimately responsible for adapting reading levels in order to create accessible content for diverse student readers. To achieve this, content levelers will be tasked with the following:

  • Adapting the reading level of original articles to create four different versions at lower reading levels, making them accessible to a wider audience
  • Remaining conscientious of grade-appropriate content, and consider the complexity of vocabulary, sentence structure and sentence length for each level being adapted
  • May participate in projects involving the identification and assignment of instructional standards tags within Newsela articles and content standards tagging & content taxonomy projects.
  • Reading and writing with close attention, monitoring original articles for any mistakes and inaccuracies

Who You Are

In order to be successful in this role, our Content Levelers have the following experience and abilities:

  • Former editor, journalist and/or writer for publishing company, particularly publishers with which Newsela has a partnership
  • Experience in other EdTech, tech or media organizations
  • Preferred experience and/or education specific to subject matter including one or more of the following:
    • Science: field and/or lab research, degree in STEM, degree in science writing/journalism
    • OR secondary degree experience in education, such as a teacher or teaching assistant in Science

Knowledge

  • Experience writing and editing for diverse audiences
  • Experience writing about a wide array of topics
  • Understanding of how to think and write empathetically and with a unified voice
  • Additional knowledge of one or more specific content areas (Social Studies, ELA, Science)
  • Experience in education or childcare spaces
  • Ability to understand and write in Newsela’s language
  • Familiarity with Newsela products

This role is compensated on a per-task basis.


Who We Are

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.

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