Skip's Curated Jobs: June 15, 2024

Thank you for reading the EdSkipper, Skip’s newsletter about skipping from education to education-aligned careers. Every Saturday, I send out a list of curated remote jobs from Skip’s job board. Premium subscribers receive access to additional jobs in the Edskipper database and two additional emails a month with advice to help you apply more competitively.

You know you were a teacher when … you seriously debate about whether to take the day off from posting paid jobs because you’re working a 14 hour day (minimum!) overseeing an election.

Some of you may remember that I’m our local Election Warden, which means I’m the elected official in charge of scheduling, training, and supervising 25-50 poll workers each election.

This Tuesday we had state primary races as well as our local school budget referendum. These June elections are typically very light on turnout — busy enough that you can start a conversation but perhaps not finish it and slow enough that it drags on and on, especially when only 2 voters show up between 7pm and 8pm but you still need nearly a dozen people waiting for them.

I debated trying to cram approving jobs into the already exhausting workday. I couldn’t really figure out how to fit it in — it’s too long to do over a lunch break, and I obviously have to keep an active eye on the election, but I kept turning it over in my head. “What if I …?”

Because as educators, we are trained to sacrifice and then sacrifice some more so that we do get everything crammed in.

Instead, I prioritized myself. (Well, technically I prioritized my part-time public service gig, I guess!)

I popped up a message on the job board that said, “PTO Day” and spent the day experimenting with voter traffic flow, observing and redirecting election workers so that we’re prepared for November’s election (eeks! I’ll be taking an extra PTO day to recover then, lol), making sure candidates follow the rules about campaigning, and all of the little tasks that we do during an election.

And, you know what?

People understood.

I posted all the jobs that came in Tuesday on Wednesday.

The sky didn’t fall.

~I hope you find some fantastic jobs to apply to this weekend,
Chelsea

Last Week’s Poll

Last week, I asked y’all about your experience with Social Saturday posts on LinkedIn. I shared how I love the idea of Social Saturday but hate how it’s often just a post-and-run activity.

The past Saturday, I posted an Edtech Social Saturday post to encourage conversation. We had a great conversation about how educators and current edtech employees are using AI in their day-to-day. People actually talked to each other and not just replied to me!

Some trends: lots of us are using ChatGPT for data analysis, one educator uses AI to adapt complex Spanish texts to meet student’s different lexile needs, an edtech employees uses it to create certain types of multiple choice questions, another educator uses AI to help students with cognitive challenges take notes, and many more. I definitely think educators should be talking more about how they’re using this cutting edge technology.

And, let’s keep sharing ideas with each other and building educator connection spaces!

FULL-TIME JOBS

These are only some of the jobs I’ve featured this week!
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