Career Opportunities

SCALE Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity with Professor Susanna Loeb

The vision of the SCALE Initiative is to transform the landscape of educational opportunity by leveraging knowledge and insights for better education decision-making. The initiative aims to produce research that identifies, supports, and helps to scale promising solutions across diverse issues in K-12 education. It also engages decision-makers (e.g. policy makers, district and school leaders, teachers, and supporting non-profits) to integrate research, policy, and practice to effect positive change for learners.

The SCALE Initiative conducts rigorous research in partnership with educators on how to scale promising educational solutions to advance the knowledge base, empowering practitioners and policymakers to make informed decisions that make education systems more equitable and effective for all students. Our research falls into three buckets: understanding impact, understanding the landscape, and understanding the enabling conditions. Underpinning this approach is the potential for identifying avenues that can transform education practice and policy to increase equity and opportunities for all students. The SCALE Initiative partners with school districts, service providers, and umbrella organizations across the country to learn about the effectiveness of new and innovative programs, to learn about features of programs that drive effective, to better understand the challenges to implementation and how to overcome those challenges, and to utilize the unique data provided by tutoring to better understand teaching and learning. 

The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to this work by leading one or more of the following research processes: The design and implementation of randomized controlled trials, the analysis of administrative data, the analysis of video and audio data, qualitative studies of implementation through interviews or focus groups, producing external reports for stakeholders and writing academic publications, and the building and maintaining of trusting relationships with external partners. A key goal is to ensure that the postdoctoral fellow is able to establish some projects for subsequent publication or contribute to the creation of a new research program.

SCALE Senior Research Associate

The SCALE initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, housed at Stanford Graduate School of Education is seeking a Senior Research Associate to work in the Generative AI in Education Hub. The SCALE initiative works to equalize and improve educational opportunities for students by supporting implementation of the most promising educational practices. One such project is the recently started GenAI in Education Hub aiming to be the trusted source for education leaders on generative AI for what works to benefit student learning at scale. This position will provide data management support for the research projects within the GenAI in Education Hub.