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Professional Learning Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, curriculum development, or a directly related field. Employers in K-12 districts, edtech companies, and corporate learning teams regularly file LCAs for this occupation. No lottery exemption applies, so timing your job search around the April cap registration window matters.
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Part Time, Year Round Availability
What We Seek
Our Professional Learning team is looking for highly motivated current or former mathematics teachers, instructional coaches or leaders to join our team in a part-time year-round capacity. As the PL Specialist - Mathematics you will facilitate professional learning for K-12 educators utilizing Carnegie Learning mathematics resources on an as-needed basis year-round. A Carnegie Learning PL Specialist is a Carnegie Learning product ambassador, promotes implementation fidelity, and increases teacher effectiveness in each of the schools/districts they support.
As a member of the Professional Learning team, the PL Specialist, Mathematics reports to the Senior Manager of School Partnerships in their primary region and works collaboratively with many of our teams, including the internal Professional Learning Team, Regional Directors of Professional Learning, and Managers of School Partnerships to support professional learning objectives. PL Specialists may also support additional teams, including PL Design, Product, Sales, and Tutoring Services on content, design and PL support.
PL Specialists must successfully complete a suite of certification requirements, as prescribed by Carnegie Learning experts, including shadowing and co-facilitating professional learning activities with our experts. This position is part-time, year round and is recruiting throughout the calendar year; applicants will be contacted when the customer demand arises.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Delivering High-Quality Professional Learning
- Facilitating engaging professional learning workshops centered on Carnegie Learning products, best practices in teaching, and content expertise.
- Facilitating intentional adult learning experiences anchored in clear learning intentions, active participant thinking, and explicit connections to classroom practice.
- Preserving time for reflection, discourse, and application to ensure learning transfers meaningfully into classroom implementation.
- Refining workshops and learning experiences, when appropriate, to meet the unique needs and contexts of our partners.
- Delivering intentional and impactful, job-embedded professional learning to teachers and campus leadership (formal coaching cycles, collaborative lesson cycles, lesson internalization support, collaborative planning (PLC) facilitation, etc.).
- Facilitating reflective, evidence-based coaching cycles that surface teacher thinking, anchor conversations in classroom artifacts and student evidence, and build clear continuity from visit to visit.
- Cultivating teacher ownership of instructional goals and next steps by creating space for reflection, agency, and accountability over time.
- Upholding Carnegie Learning’s core commitments in every interaction—approaching educators with belief in their potential, honoring their voices and expertise, empowering their ownership of implementation, and inspiring progress and purpose in their growth.
- Leveraging data to drive teacher growth, inform ongoing support, and track partnership progress.
Operations & Documentation
- Following the Professional Learning process in all aspects of delivery: planning, confirming, communicating, executing, and following up.
- Ensuring timely completion of all documentation, including digital sign-ins, workshop feedback, coaching and support logs, courtesy emails, coaching feedback forms, and other deliverables.
- Maintaining and sharing accurate and up-to-date records regarding professional learning deliverables, including forecasting deliverables and managing your calendar.
- Using logs, feedback forms, and follow-up communication as strategic tools to strengthen continuity of coaching, clarify next steps, and build trust with educators and partners.
Other Fun Work
- Develop correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific PL partner needs.
- Support the sales team in pre- and post-sales environments including RFP/proposal design, pre-sales discussions, formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities.
- Provide Tutoring Services to CL customers as desired/available.
- PL Specialists will have varied work opportunities based on skills and experience. These opportunities are evolving continuously as the business grows.
- Performing other duties as assigned or apparent.
Exuding Our Team Core Values
- PASSION: Exuding a positive, contagious energy around the work we do.
- CURIOSITY: Seeking out new information and experiences, questioning the status quo, exploring possibilities.
- FLEXIBILITY: Quickly and calmly responding to changing circumstances.
- AGENCY: Appropriately taking initiative in your work and professional growth.
- PARTNERSHIP: Developing and effectively using collaborative relationships (internally and externally) to drive your work.
- INTEGRITY: Consistently demonstrating our core values through your work.
What You Can Expect
Primary Job Function
Approx. % of Time
Delivering High Quality Professional Learning
80%
Operations & Documentation
15%
Other Fun Work
5%
TRAVEL COMMITMENT NOTE
This job requires travel when delivering onsite professional learning. PL Specialists have the opportunity to accept or decline opportunities based on their individual schedules and plans.
What Should Be In Your Bookbag
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education (specific to your content vertical).
- 3+ years mathematics teaching experience.
- Residing in one of the following states within the territory: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia.
- Flexible schedule and availability during the summer and school year.
- Prior experience with Carnegie Learning resources (preferred).
- Experience mentoring/coaching teachers (preferred).
- Experience facilitating professional learning workshops (preferred).
- Cognitive Coaching (or equivalent) certification (preferred).
- Exemplifies Carnegie Learning’s core values to the highest level.
- Exceptional time management skills, including calendar management, goal setting, and efficiency in task prioritization.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Solution-minded, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement of efficiency, communication, and customer experience.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
What Gives Us Purpose
Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We’re driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.
What We Provide
- Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy.
- Reduced working hours for soon-to-be and new parents.
- Free access to CL products for employees and their children.
- Quarterly Wellness Incentives.
- Monthly employee activities + recognition program.
- Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs).
What We Believe
We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.
If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Professional Learning Specialist
Part Time, Year Round Availability
What We Seek
Our Professional Learning team is looking for highly motivated current or former mathematics teachers, instructional coaches or leaders to join our team in a part-time year-round capacity. As the PL Specialist - Mathematics you will facilitate professional learning for K-12 educators utilizing Carnegie Learning mathematics resources on an as-needed basis year-round. A Carnegie Learning PL Specialist is a Carnegie Learning product ambassador, promotes implementation fidelity, and increases teacher effectiveness in each of the schools/districts they support.
As a member of the Professional Learning team, the PL Specialist, Mathematics reports to the Senior Manager of School Partnerships in their primary region and works collaboratively with many of our teams, including the internal Professional Learning Team, Regional Directors of Professional Learning, and Managers of School Partnerships to support professional learning objectives. PL Specialists may also support additional teams, including PL Design, Product, Sales, and Tutoring Services on content, design and PL support.
PL Specialists must successfully complete a suite of certification requirements, as prescribed by Carnegie Learning experts, including shadowing and co-facilitating professional learning activities with our experts. This position is part-time, year round and is recruiting throughout the calendar year; applicants will be contacted when the customer demand arises.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Delivering High-Quality Professional Learning
- Facilitating engaging professional learning workshops centered on Carnegie Learning products, best practices in teaching, and content expertise.
- Facilitating intentional adult learning experiences anchored in clear learning intentions, active participant thinking, and explicit connections to classroom practice.
- Preserving time for reflection, discourse, and application to ensure learning transfers meaningfully into classroom implementation.
- Refining workshops and learning experiences, when appropriate, to meet the unique needs and contexts of our partners.
- Delivering intentional and impactful, job-embedded professional learning to teachers and campus leadership (formal coaching cycles, collaborative lesson cycles, lesson internalization support, collaborative planning (PLC) facilitation, etc.).
- Facilitating reflective, evidence-based coaching cycles that surface teacher thinking, anchor conversations in classroom artifacts and student evidence, and build clear continuity from visit to visit.
- Cultivating teacher ownership of instructional goals and next steps by creating space for reflection, agency, and accountability over time.
- Upholding Carnegie Learning’s core commitments in every interaction—approaching educators with belief in their potential, honoring their voices and expertise, empowering their ownership of implementation, and inspiring progress and purpose in their growth.
- Leveraging data to drive teacher growth, inform ongoing support, and track partnership progress.
Operations & Documentation
- Following the Professional Learning process in all aspects of delivery: planning, confirming, communicating, executing, and following up.
- Ensuring timely completion of all documentation, including digital sign-ins, workshop feedback, coaching and support logs, courtesy emails, coaching feedback forms, and other deliverables.
- Maintaining and sharing accurate and up-to-date records regarding professional learning deliverables, including forecasting deliverables and managing your calendar.
- Using logs, feedback forms, and follow-up communication as strategic tools to strengthen continuity of coaching, clarify next steps, and build trust with educators and partners.
Other Fun Work
- Develop correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific PL partner needs.
- Support the sales team in pre- and post-sales environments including RFP/proposal design, pre-sales discussions, formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities.
- Provide Tutoring Services to CL customers as desired/available.
- PL Specialists will have varied work opportunities based on skills and experience. These opportunities are evolving continuously as the business grows.
- Performing other duties as assigned or apparent.
Exuding Our Team Core Values
- PASSION: Exuding a positive, contagious energy around the work we do.
- CURIOSITY: Seeking out new information and experiences, questioning the status quo, exploring possibilities.
- FLEXIBILITY: Quickly and calmly responding to changing circumstances.
- AGENCY: Appropriately taking initiative in your work and professional growth.
- PARTNERSHIP: Developing and effectively using collaborative relationships (internally and externally) to drive your work.
- INTEGRITY: Consistently demonstrating our core values through your work.
What You Can Expect
Primary Job Function
Approx. % of Time
Delivering High Quality Professional Learning
80%
Operations & Documentation
15%
Other Fun Work
5%
TRAVEL COMMITMENT NOTE
This job requires travel when delivering onsite professional learning. PL Specialists have the opportunity to accept or decline opportunities based on their individual schedules and plans.
What Should Be In Your Bookbag
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education (specific to your content vertical).
- 3+ years mathematics teaching experience.
- Residing in one of the following states within the territory: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia.
- Flexible schedule and availability during the summer and school year.
- Prior experience with Carnegie Learning resources (preferred).
- Experience mentoring/coaching teachers (preferred).
- Experience facilitating professional learning workshops (preferred).
- Cognitive Coaching (or equivalent) certification (preferred).
- Exemplifies Carnegie Learning’s core values to the highest level.
- Exceptional time management skills, including calendar management, goal setting, and efficiency in task prioritization.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Solution-minded, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement of efficiency, communication, and customer experience.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
What Gives Us Purpose
Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We’re driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.
What We Provide
- Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy.
- Reduced working hours for soon-to-be and new parents.
- Free access to CL products for employees and their children.
- Quarterly Wellness Incentives.
- Monthly employee activities + recognition program.
- Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs).
What We Believe
We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.
If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Professional Learning Specialist
Verify your degree field matches the role
USCIS requires your degree to align specifically with instructional design, education, or curriculum development, not just any bachelor's degree. Pull your O*NET occupation profile for Professional Learning Specialist to confirm which fields USCIS recognizes as directly related before applying.
Target employers with established LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Professional Learning Specialist roles by employers who have active LCA filings for this occupation. Districts and edtech companies with prior filings have already cleared the DOL prevailing-wage certification process, which reduces your sponsorship risk.
Distinguish edtech employers from K-12 districts early
Public school districts are government entities and cap-exempt, meaning your H-1B petition bypasses the annual lottery. Corporate edtech employers are cap-subject. Identifying which type you're targeting changes your filing timeline by as much as a full fiscal year.
Confirm the prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Run the OFLC Wage Search for your specific SOC code and work location before you reach the offer stage. Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the prevailing wage level, and knowing the floor prevents late-stage offer complications.
Prepare a portfolio that documents specialty occupation standing
USCIS scrutinizes Professional Learning Specialist petitions because the degree-to-role connection isn't always obvious to adjudicators. Assemble course syllabi you've designed, credentialing artifacts, and any instructional systems design certifications to support the specialty occupation argument in your I-129 package.
Start the LCA process well before your intended start date
Your employer must post the LCA at your physical worksite for ten business days and then wait for DOL certification before filing your I-129. Build at least six to eight weeks into your timeline before the date you need to start.
H-1B Visa Professional Learning Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Professional Learning Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as instructional design, curriculum and instruction, or educational technology. The employer must document in the I-129 petition why a specific degree is the minimum normal requirement for the role. Generic education or training coordinator titles with loosely defined duties are more likely to face a Request for Evidence from USCIS.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for Professional Learning Specialist positions?
Corporate learning and development teams, edtech product companies, nonprofit education organizations, and higher education institutions are the most active sponsors. Public K-12 school districts are cap-exempt government entities, which means petitions filed through them skip the annual H-1B lottery entirely. Use Migrate Mate to browse Professional Learning Specialist openings filtered by employers with verified H-1B filing history.
What happens to my H-1B status if I move from a corporate employer to a public school district?
You can transfer your H-1B to the district through an H-1B portability filing, but the cap-exempt status of the new employer means you don't need to re-enter the lottery. Your employer files a new I-129 petition with USCIS, and you can start work once that petition is received, not just approved, provided you've maintained valid H-1B status throughout the transition.
Can I work remotely as a Professional Learning Specialist on an H-1B visa?
Remote work is permitted, but your employer must file an amended LCA listing every worksite where you spend a meaningful portion of your time, including your home address if you work from home regularly. Each new worksite must meet DOL prevailing-wage requirements for that location, which may differ from the original certified wage. Failing to update the LCA for remote locations is a common compliance violation.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage apply to Professional Learning Specialist roles?
The DOL assigns this occupation a Standard Occupational Classification code, and your employer must certify through the LCA that your offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for that code in your work location. You can verify the applicable wage level using the OFLC Wage Search before you receive a formal offer. Wages in higher cost-of-living markets are typically certified at higher thresholds than rural or lower-cost regions.