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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 TN Visa Sponsorship as a Professional Learning Specialist
Align your credentials to TN-qualifying categories
Professional Learning Specialists must map to a recognized TN occupation like Social Worker, Teacher, or Scientific Technologist. Pull your degree transcripts and verify the field of study matches the job description before contacting any employer.
Target districts with dedicated HR compliance teams
K-12 districts, community colleges, and large corporate training departments regularly file TN support letters. Smaller organizations may lack the internal knowledge to draft the required employer letter, which delays or derails your offer.
Request a specific TN support letter from your employer
The employer letter must name your TN category, describe the role's professional duties, confirm the Canadian or Mexican citizen status requirement, and state the employment period. A vague letter is the single most common reason CBP refuses entry.
Search for sponsorship-ready roles using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Professional Learning Specialist openings by employers with active TN and H-1B filing history, so you're applying to organizations already familiar with USMCA-based sponsorship rather than starting those conversations from scratch.
Confirm instructional design duties qualify as specialty work
TN status requires that your day-to-day duties reflect professional-level work, not purely administrative coordination. If your role blends facilitation with data analysis or curriculum research, document those functions explicitly in your resume and offer letter.
Plan your Mexican TN consulate appointment around USMCA caps
Mexican citizens face an annual TN allocation. Schedule your U.S. consulate appointment early in the fiscal year and prepare Form DS-160 alongside your employer letter, degree evidence, and professional credentials to avoid losing your slot to processing backlogs.
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Find Professional Learning Specialist JobsProfessional Learning Specialist TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Professional Learning Specialist role qualify for TN visa status?
It depends on how your duties are defined and which TN occupational category your employer's letter invokes. Roles centered on curriculum development, adult instruction, or educational consulting can qualify under categories like Teacher or Social Worker. The critical factor is that your bachelor's degree field must align with the professional functions described in your offer letter, not just the job title.
How does the TN visa compare to the H-1B for Professional Learning Specialists?
The TN visa has no annual lottery, no cap for Canadians, and no lengthy USCIS petition process. You can gain TN status at a Canadian port of entry the same day your employer issues a qualifying letter. H-1B requires a lottery selection, months of waiting, and employer-paid filing fees. For Canadian professionals in this field, TN is generally the faster, lower-cost path to U.S. employment.
Can I find Professional Learning Specialist jobs with TN sponsorship on Migrate Mate?
Yes. Migrate Mate is built specifically for USMCA-eligible professionals and filters job listings by employers with documented TN and H-1B sponsorship activity. That means you're not cold-applying to companies that have never navigated work visa processes. Searching by role and sponsorship status significantly narrows your list to employers already equipped to support a TN filing.
What documents do I need to present at the Canadian border for TN admission?
You'll need a valid Canadian passport, a signed employer support letter that names your TN occupational category and describes your professional duties, academic credentials proving your degree (transcript or diploma), and evidence of Canadian citizenship. CBP officers at the port of entry adjudicate TN requests on the spot, so every document must be complete and internally consistent before you travel.
What happens if my Professional Learning Specialist TN status is denied at the border?
CBP will issue a written refusal explaining the reason, most often a mismatched degree field, an insufficient employer letter, or a role that reads as administrative rather than professional. You can address the deficiencies and reapply at any port of entry immediately. There is no mandatory waiting period after a TN refusal, unlike USCIS petition denials, which gives you room to revise and refile quickly.
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