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Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Texts are published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, more than 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that’s accessible to everyone, aligned to standards, and attached to activities and reporting that provide visibility into what students are learning and how teachers are leveraging the content in instruction. With more than 15,000 texts and 10 new texts published daily across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any topic they choose. read more
The hope, wonder, and promise of education permeates our culture. Sort of like how pets look like their owners, Newsela from the inside feels like an embodiment of what modern education could be—open, joyful, human, inquisitive, discursive, collectiv
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
I find Newsela an interesting combination. There are so many wonderful things: fascinating people, shared drive to improve education, flexibility with working hours and time off. There are also things that frustrate me: work feeling mired in perpetual ambiguity, people leaving, lack of transparency.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Friendly, eloquent, helpful, sharp, honest, and humble.
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Frankness, compassion, resourcefulness and ambition.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Interesting, friendly, driven, helpful people. Every day I see ways we look out for each other.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The culture and environment here is considerate, talkative, and laid back. Productively engaging with each other happens organically.
What makes you most happy at work?
I admire and enjoy the people I work with! Plus my job is something I already love doing.
What makes you most happy at work?
Making things better for teachers and students. Working with the people I get to work with. Addressing challenging problems.
What do you like best about the leadership team?
The leadership team expresses goals, ideas, and updates very effectively. By that I mean their communication has been thoughtful, succinct, honest, concrete, and interesting.
What are some of the best things about your team?
I value each of my team members for their kindness, intelligence, and quirkiness. Plus, we all naturally want to help each other and forward the mission?
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Honestly, I see my compensation package as essentially money in different disguises. And it adds to a princely sum! Outside of that, there's the flexible time off, which I appreciate!
What makes you most happy at work?
The projects I get to work on and the people I get to work with. The projects are interesting and have obvious impact, the people are also interesting and just stellar collaborators.
What do you like best about the leadership team?
I appreciate the obvious and deep concern with providing value to teachers and students. I appreciate the details on what's going well, what we could improve, where we're headed, including explanations about why.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
People care about each other, our space, our mission, and how we get there. We seem to have great norms around reflecting and giving each other thoughtful and honest feedback to keep growing.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Comparing in the labor market, I don't think Newsela's compensation package is outstanding. Though, not comparing for a second, of course my salary is the most important part of what Newsela offers me, and I'm incredibly grateful for the privilege of having such solid financial stability.
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