Advisor - Empirical Reasoning (High School Teacher)

The Met, founded by the non-profit Big Picture Learning, began in 1996 as a groundbreaking new school with a student-teacher ratio of 16:1, high standards, and strong family engagement.

With more than 25 years of experience in educating students, the Met has expanded to a network of six small high schools throughout the state of Rhode Island.

The Met empowers its students to take charge of their learning, and become responsible citizens and lifelong learners.

Met milestones include internships, individual learning plans, advisories, and a breakthrough college transition program.

“These are the kind of results you can get when you design a high school to prepare every student for college.” - Bill Gates; speaking about the Met at the 2005 National Education Summit “We’ll follow the example of places like the Met Center, in Rhode Island, that give students that individual attention, while also preparing them, through real-world, hands-on training, the possibility of succeeding in a career.” - President Barack Obama; speaking about the Met in 2010 Position: Advisor (High School Teacher) Campus: Providence Campus Reports to: Building Principal or Leader Employment Status: Full Time, permanent, academic year Salary Range: Step Salary Schedule, starting at $45,596 (step 1) - $60,566 (step 5) Start Date: August 2025 Position Overview: An advisor at a Big Picture Learning school plays a complex role.

An advisor is responsible for navigating and guiding the learning process with 15-20 students for 2-4 years.

The advisor is a part of each student's Learning Plan team, along with the student, parent, and mentor.

The advisor guides this team to support and coach the student's learning process.

The advisor is a generalist who can support student work around each Learning Goal, and this advisor works to build a collective focus with their student group around empirical reasoning and collaborative problem-solving.

An advisor is not only a teacher.

They take on aspects of administration, guidance, management, recruitment, public engagement, and more.

As a result, advising can be a very rewarding and intense experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: ●Implement, by instruction and action, the BPL philosophy of education supporting critical thinking skills across the curriculum, project based learning, internship based learning, and authentic assessment.

●Build academic projects exploring integrated learning goals.

●Facilitate trimester learning plan meetings with each student and his or her family ●Forecast the educational needs of each student based on their interests and abilities ●Identify learning opportunities and internships for students ●Facilitate internship searches through phone calls, shadow days, and informational interviews to ensure that each student has an internship ●Monitor student internships through site visits (bi-weekly), phone calls (weekly), and mentor meetings (monthly) ●Report on each student’s educational and social progress in detail through trimester narratives, phone calls to parents, and weekly student meetings ●Run at least two sessions with advisory per day on non-internship days ●Attend weekly staff meetings, monthly Professional Development days, and yearly training sessions ●Facilitate additional educational and health services for each advisee as needed ●Create a positive culture of learning ●Maintain complete and factual records (transcripts) on each student as required by school and law ●Work with staff on strategies for grade levels, school, and network ●Make provisions to be available to students and parents for education-related reasons outside of the school day when necessary