Recruiting After School Reading Tutors

Earn $75/hour

Help start a Wonder.io reading program in an afterschool club in Denver Public Schools.

Job Description:

  • Work Part time helping in an afterschool program for 1 hour each day, 3-5 hours of work a week

  • Facilitate reading of interactive, digital books that increase participation and reader’s confidence

  • Work directly with K-5 students, helping them fall in love with reading

  • Have no lesson-planning, curriculum is already built out at Wonder.io

  • Build teaching skills in relational and behavioral management in a relaxed, playful environment

  • Be creative. We encourage staff to customize our curriculum as we build the program out together.

An ideal candidate:

  • Brings enthusiasm and joy to the classroom

  • Is excited to help grow and shape Wonder.io into the future of afterschool reading

  • Cares deeply about helping struggling readers catch up

  • Appreciates that teaching is about connecting with students, where they are at

  • Brings a diverse background and perspective to Wonder.io

  • Demonstrates leadership, accountability, and responsibility

From the Founder, Elliott Hedman

For the last 7 years, I’ve been working with struggling readers across Denver, building a new solution to learning to read. For many kids, raised in an iPad Generation, books failed to be stimulating and made them feel like failures. Working with a diverse group of struggling readers at the Boys & Girls Club, we invented Wonder.io - a new way to learn to read. With Wonder.io, kids are given stimulating questions about every 30 seconds - making comprehension relevant and important. I’ve had students on the first day of class tell me “reading sucks”, but after a semester using Wonder.io parents are told to wait in the car until they finish their book. We’ve had 4th graders that are 3 years behind read for over an hour and complain when they have to stop.

Wonder.io represents the future of combining learning, reading, and play together and this afterschool program is our first step in making a sizable impact in Denver student's life. Our research on Wonder.io shows that interactive texts are the future of reading, but we now have the momentous task of bringing the intervention to real readers in classrooms. By joining this program in the first year you will be helping us take the first step in changing how reading is taught. Helping kids love to read is our mission, and you will be employee number 1 in making this happen. Thank you.

If you are interested or have questions, please send a resume and cover letter to: annaegilbertson@gmail.com

Find out more about Wonder.io here.

This pamphlet explains how Wonder.io is being presented to schools.