Description

Achieve partners with families from Boston to empower motivated students to challenge the opportunity gap. By providing transformative academic programming and enriching experiences from middle school through the first year of college, we foster enduring confidence and agency in our scholars through a supportive, joyful community.  

Achieve students are motivated, high-achieving young people who grow into extraordinary individuals. Our middle school scholars attend Boston’s district and charter public schools, come from low-income families, and represent diverse ethnicities, religions, and family backgrounds. Achieve seeks to increase our students' academic skills and sense of self and put them on the path to college. 

Teaching assistants are critical members of the Achieve team and essential to our students’ academic and personal success. Candidates must possess a strong interest in working with  students from under-resourced schools in a fun, challenging, and enriching academic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Provide a consistent adult presence in all spaces throughout the day
• Actively support a lead teacher in English, math, or science with teaching and classroom management
• Lead-teach at least one lesson during the summer with support from your lead teacher
• Co-lead an advisory group
• Contribute to a nurturing environment with consistent communication among community members
• Lead enrichment activities, book clubs, or math clubs, and provide academic intervention 
• Attend all staff meetings and community-wide morning and afternoon meetings
• Lead a group of students on field trips and other programming on Fridays 
• Carry out other duties as assigned by your supervisor 

Schedule and 2026 Summer Dates:

Staff Orientation: Week of June 29
Summer Program: July 6– August 13
Teaching Assistant is a Monday-Friday position, from 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Salary: $3,500

To apply for a Teaching Assistant position at Achieve, please apply here with the following materials:

Required short answer/essay questions (see next page), you can upload the answers with your resume
Current résumé
Undergraduate or graduate students provide an official school transcript
Two letters of recommendation (excluding friends or family members)

1. Have you ever attended a program like Achieve? If yes, describe the program and your experience. 
2. How would you describe yourself in the classroom setting? If you do not have classroom experience, describe how you build relationships with young people
3. Tell us about a problem you cannot solve.
4. Why are you interested in working for an educational access program like Achieve?
5. Why do you think it's important to learn about race/racism and class/classism and its impact on modern education?
   

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Current college student, recent college graduate, graduate student, or new teacher
• Interest in pursuing K-12 teaching as a career   
• Experience and/or interest in working with middle school students (grades 6 through 8)
• Demonstrated commitment to social and racial justice
• Strong ability to collaborate and communicate effectively   
• Excellent organizational skills