Middle School MyCAP Planning Team Member, Salem, Public Schools, Salem, MA INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY [SY 2025-2026]

 

Stipend Position: 8 positions available
Location: Salem Public Schools – Middle School
Eligibility: All educators are eligible to apply; City Connects Coordinators are highly encouraged to participate!
Time Commitment: 10 hours total

Position Overview

Salem Public Schools is seeking up to eight middle school educators and City Connects Coordinators to serve on a Middle School MyCAP Planning Team. This team will help coordinate planning for the next phase of MyCAP implementation by reviewing the work that took place this year and proposing a clear, grade-specific scope and sequence for next year’s weekly MyCAP time. Our goal is for this work to build both explicit and integrated opportunities throughout the year for all grades!

The MyCAP Planning Team will help shift weekly middle school time from a stand-alone “SEL block” into a more coherent MyCAP experience. This means preserving important SEL goals, such as belonging, self-awareness, relationships, and decision-making, while also intentionally connecting that work to students’ academic growth, interests, strengths, career awareness, goal-setting, and future planning. For example, this work will integrate Student Led Conference preparation into the SEL scope and sequence. 

The planning team will focus on aligning existing SEL, advisory, career exploration, student support, and other middle school experiences to the MyCAP framework in order to create a more coherent and developmentally appropriate experience for students.

Responsibilities

Planning Team members will participate in 10 hours of compensated work, including:

• At least three 90-minute planning meetings: 
• Launch meeting - 3:30-5:00pm on Monday, May 18th
• Midpoint planning meeting - 3:30-5:00pm on Monday, June 1st
• Summary/recommendation meeting - To be determined
• Asynchronous work to review and map existing middle school experiences from this year to the MyCAP framework
• Identification of strengths, gaps, and opportunities in current activities and related student experience work
• Development of recommendations for a grade-specific MyCAP scope and sequence for next year’s weekly time
• Collaboration with colleagues to ensure the proposed plan is realistic, student-centered, and aligned across grade levels

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will:

• Have direct experience supporting middle school students
• Understand or be willing to learn about the MyCAP framework
• Bring knowledge of SEL, student support, advisory, counseling, career exploration, or grade-level programming
• Be able to collaborate across roles and grade levels
• Be thoughtful about creating equitable, developmentally appropriate learning experiences for all students

Compensation

This is a $450 stipend position for ~10 hours of work, funded by a DESE grant.

Application Process

Interested educators should submit a brief statement of interest describing their relevant experience and why they are interested in supporting middle school MyCAP planning to Chelsea Banks (cbanks@salemk12.org).