Real-World Project Coach (Volunteer Opportunity)

Requirements

Supports for Real-World Project Coaches:

• Free fingerprinting & background check
• Training on giving feedback to children
• Pre-created projects, feedback rubrics, and coaching session guides
• Pre-launch planning meeting with classroom teacher to ensure you feel prepared
• Coaching de-brief meetings after each student coaching session so we can improve your experience between each session
• $500 stipend

Expectations of Real-World Project Coaches

Use specific expertise for the benefit of DeKalb Brilliance Academy students

• Complete semester-long term of service (e.g. Sept-Dec)
• Commit at least 2 hours per month to real-world project coaching
• Months 1: project launch
• Months 2-4: coaching student teams
• Month 5: celebration of student learning

Qualifications

Of Real-World Project Coaches.

• Purpose-driven: have deep reverence for the brilliance of our children and unwavering commitment to empowering our children to have impactful legacies in our communities
• Community-minded: has ability work collaboratively with peers and manage up to improve the work of everyone around them
• Emotionally intelligent: knows how to care for themselves, collaborate with others, use tools to regulate their emotions under stress, and approach difficult situations with others with empathy and compassion
• Equity-minded: understand how specific behaviors, laws, and institutions limit the rights and freedoms of people and work with our community to take collective action to make our world fairer for everyone
• Expertise in field related to real-world project

Priorities for Semester 1

• Urban planners, landscape architects, & architects to coach student teams on designing a neighborhood park
• Physicians, nurses & dietitians to coach student teams on a project to improve the health of the DBA community
• Environmental scientists, ecologists, & animators to coach student teams on creating stories to communicate the changes our planet needs
• Engineers (civil, structural, mechanical, geotechnical) to coach student teams on an engineering challenge

Benefits

Not applicable - this is a voluntary position.