Elevate K-12 reviews

1) You will be told the curriculum is ready to go and you will be paid an hour for each class you teach for the time needed to review the curriculum. It absolutely is not enough time- you will be given the sorriest excuse for curriculum you have ever seen. Lesson plans for an hour meant to cover 3-4 unrelated standards, softball exit tickets such as "Tell how one person was nice to you today" that aren't connected to the lesson, absolutely no accompanying reading or writing strategies, the list goes on and on. You will also be given standardized plans for classes of various lengths so you would still have to plan to accommodate the plan to your class. 2) Once you’ve fixed the curriculum, good luck teaching it. On their platform, you can't show your own slides or charts- you are given the unusable pre-created slides and five "whiteboards" that are the most unwieldy technology I've used. Imagine WordPad as a Google Slide. The most basic of fonts and a very limited amount of words. You only get 15 minutes before class to set up your whiteboards so I hope you only have five slides to show students. 3) Whenever someone sends you a chat, you lose access to the whiteboard so you can’t do two things at once like on Zoom. Private messages also don't stack like texts, so once you click on them they stop flashing so if you forgot who you were talking to, good luck! 4) You are given NO time to meet and discuss classroom rules with the person in the classroom. I asked over and over again for my classroom coach’s email to no avail. Get ready for the very real possibility of someone muting you, screaming at the kids, interrupting your lesson, insulting you, or simply deciding they are going to show a movie and there is nothing you can do. There is clearly no training for the classroom coaches in this system.

I have never worked somewhere more toxic. A solid portion of the leadership team refuse to change course when given honest feedback. They believe their way is 100% right 100% of the time. I personally experienced & heard stories from others reminiscent of mean girls in high school. There are clear favorites, and it doesn't matter if they are condescending and poor performers, they will stick around and will not be reprimanded. They are not consistent in their decisions when it comes to addressing employee performance or problematic behavior. The place is a revolving door. They're willing to let anyone go at any time, and a large portion of employees quit before they even reach one year. Many many talented people have left because of a few toxic employees that were never addressed. Priorities are constantly shifting at the last minute, making it really difficult to do your best work. They are insanely focused on growth, which is not a bad thing in and of itself, but they don't have the best foundation to build on. There are so many weak points that need addressing and fixing before they're in a place to successfully grow but they aren't paying any mind to that. There is unlimited PTO but there are levels (1, 2, and 3). You still have to work unless you take level 3, and even then you probably have to work. I never had a day off. I worked weekends and nights. There is no work life balance.