About the company
Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents.
Responsibilities
- Supporting Lesson Development: Work with lesson developers and graph specialists to apply medium to high complexity scripting to interactions. Additionally, brainstorm ideas and work on prototypes for new interactions. A CL specialist will work with graph specialists simultaneously, as needed.
- Identify bugs, edge cases, and performance issues in activities and rectify them.
- Internally referred to as “tune-ups”, CL specialists review all of the scripting in an activity at the end of the development step. They optimize scripts and test for performance related to: Correctness, Error messaging and warnings, Teacher dashboards, Performance, Student experience.
- Understand and apply small additions to the expression list of the Desmos graphing calculator whenever a complex interaction requires the capabilities of both graph and CL.
- Develop interactions that require extensive CL programming.
- Applying accessibility features to digital curriculum materials - Custom screen reader narrations are applied to every one of our graph displays and are controlled by CL. CL specialists author the narrations and script their playback.
- Participate in cross-functional ideation sessions with other members of your project’s team.
- Offer feedback in written form and also via video chat because conversation is a natural way humans think together.
- Receive, synthesize, and strategically implement feedback from other team members to improve and polish your interactions.
- Support and be supported by the rest of the team throughout your tenure at Amplify.
- Learn about our philosophies for technology, design, pedagogy, accessibility, and equity.
- Join other CL specialists in steadily leveling up the team’s skills by sharing best practices, discussing challenging problems, exploring new tools, and reviewing interactions in existing lessons.
- Explore the boundaries of what’s possible with our technology and offer feedback to the product and engineering teams to help drive future development of the tools we use to build our product.
- Identify ways that our approach to equity can further inform our work, in terms of the products we make, the processes we use to make them, and the ways we interact with our teammates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 3+ years of experience teaching in K–12 classrooms
- Basic proficiency with Computation Layer, including an understanding of sinks, sources, and conditional logic, the ability to connect student inputs with other components, and an understanding of the limitations of Computation Layer
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Alignment to team and company values around technology, design, pedagogy
- Shared commitment to team efforts around accessibility and equity work
Preferred:
- 5+ years of experience teaching Math in K–12 classrooms
- High proficiency in Computation Layer