Graduate Research Fellow

TeachFX is an edtech startup with a mission of superpowering teachers’ work and advancing equity in the classroom. The TeachFX app uses AI to show educators personalized insights about the learning dynamics in their classroom. We help teachers understand which of their instructional practices -- their questioning technique, lesson design, or use of wait time, uptake of student contributions, and other high-leverage strategies -- are making the greatest positive impact on student engagement and equity in the classroom. We pair our app with inquiry-based professional learning workshops designed to build teacher capacity by leveraging TeachFX data in a continuous improvement cycle that brings research into practice and builds more student-centered classrooms.

We are a growing, mission-driven team and we’re looking for a PhD level graduate student studying education or a related field who shares our passion for student engagement and equity in education to support our Research Team as a Graduate Research Fellow. As a Graduate Research Fellow at TeachFX, you'll contribute to TeachFX’s active, grant-funded research projects and collaborate with our Research Team to identify new opportunities for internal and external research. You will have opportunities to support machine learning model building efforts, qualitative user research studies, and quantitative evaluations of TeachFX. We are a deeply mission-driven company, and we’re looking for folks who are eager to apply their skills to power our mission.

We’re backed by best-in-class investors including Ulu Ventures, Newfund, Brighteye Ventures, Reach Capital, Pearson Ventures and Osage Venture Partners. We’ve been remote since the pandemic started and plan to support a remote-first work environment for all our team members for the foreseeable future. This role can be based anywhere in the US and will involve little to no travel.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with internal and external research project team members to ensure we make adequate progress on a daily and weekly basis toward research project goals.

• Contribute to new proposals for federal, state, and foundation grant opportunities by writing, conducting literature reviews, and reviewing grant materials for quality and accuracy.

• Support existing internal and external qualitative and quantitative research projects.

• Contribute to our Research Team’s efforts to support a culture of research-based innovation and growth at TeachFX.

• Collaborate with our Machine Learning and Research Teams to annotate classroom transcripts for teaching practices to support the development of new machine learning models.

• Collaborate with TeachFX’s Research Team and external research and practice partners to conduct rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental research studies that influence the development of highly impactful products for educators.

Who you are: We’re looking for a PhD level graduate student who cares about social impact and has a strong track record of supporting complex, interdisciplinary, cross-organization research projects. You might be a good fit if you:

• Bring 1+ years of experience as a Research Assistant or similar role supporting grant-funded education research projects.

• Are a PhD level graduate student studying education or a related field.

• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing for diverse audiences.

• Are passionate about bridging the research-to-practice gap to support educational equity for students.

• Bring experience coding, labeling, or annotating classroom transcripts or video recordings for research-based teaching practices and student learning behaviors or conducting live, systematic direct observations in classrooms.

• Bring experience supporting applied quantitative and qualitative research in schools and classrooms with educators and students.

• Bring quantitative data analysis skills and have applied them in analyses of data from school-based research studies.

• Bring qualitative data analysis skills and have applied them in analyses of interviews or focus groups with educators and administrators.

• Preferably have experience working on research that incorporates technology products or tools for educators.

TeachFX is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.