Teaching Fellow - IDEA Cincinnati (Future Vacancy 2026-2027)

Description

This job posting is not for any specific role that is currently open. Instead, applying to this posting allows IDEA to gather your information and assess your fit and move quickly once our team identifies an available opportunity for the 2026-2027 Academic Year with an intended start in July 2026. Please continue to monitor our Career Site and apply to any current vacancies that match your interests.

Role Mission:IDEA’s Teaching Fellows serve as High Dosage Tutors, mastering instructional strategies to provide highly effective intervention, remediation, and acceleration to IDEA students. Teaching Fellows serving as High Dosage Tutors are primarily responsible for tutoring all students on a Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plan (RIMP). Ohio law requires all districts and schools to provide high dosage tutoring opportunities to all students on RIMPs, including students with disabilities. A student remains on a RIMP until reading at grade level. In addition to other RIMP requirements, high-dosage tutoring opportunities must continue until the student is reading at grade level. Under the guidance of an Assistant Principal of Instruction, a Teaching Fellow serving as a High Dosage Tutor will facilitate tutoring best practices and develop skills related to instructional grouping, instructional materials, instructional delivery, and progress monitoring. High Dosage Tutors will also support interventions for IDEA students identified for the RTI/MTSS program (Literacy and Numeracy Skills) and be key staff for tutoring.

What We Offer

Compensation:

• Compensation for this role is set at an annual salary of $40,000, paid monthly.
• Earnings are paid out over a 12-month period with first paycheck in August 2025

Other Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Some of the special benefits we offer at IDEA include:

• Paid Family Leave: Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Staff members may apply for up to​ 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.

Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What You Bring -- Competencies

Qualifications:

• Education: At least 48 college hours required with current enrollment in a bachelor’s degree conferring teacher preparation program highly preferred
• Experience: 1+ year(s) of experience working with children in a classroom or volunteer setting
• Commitment: Ability to work before and/or after school hours

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability and motivation to master High Dosage Tutoring Best Practices
• Ability to instruct students and manage student behavior
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment

What You’ll Do --Accountabilities

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the educational development of students under the guidance of an Assistant Principal of Instruction with a focus on Literacy and Numeracy
• Assist Assistant Principal of Instruction with maintaining student records to include Reading Monitoring and Improvement Plans, RTI/MTSS referrals, and progress monitoring in Reading/ELA and Mathematics
• Successfully implement High Dosage Tutoring Best Practices per state of Ohio guidance
• Participate in lesson practice and delivery of tutoring programs like: Direct Instruction, i-Ready, Zearn, Amplify, and Edmentum
• Communicate students’ progress with students and families on a weekly basis
• Implement a clear and consistent behavior management system that aligns to campus- wide initiatives while developing students’ character and sense of community in the classroom
• Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify.
• Host necessary tutoring sessions to meet all students’ needs
• Participate in weekly manager check-ins, grade-level meetings, before and after-school duties, and school wide meetings and functions
• Engage in summer and year-long district, school and personal learning and development
• Minimum of 40+ hours spent at school per week to include hours and shifts that support before and after-school tutoring
• Execute arrival duties, dismissal duties, and lunch duties
• Additional responsibilities will include: After-School Tutoring or Saturday School; other hours and shifts based on the needs of our students

We look for Team and Family who embody the followingvaluesand characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students