IRT Summer Workshop Faculty

The Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) invites dedicated educators, scholars, and practitioners to join the 2026 Virtual Summer Workshop faculty. For more than three decades, IRT has expanded pathways to graduate education for students whose brilliance is often overlooked or minoritized. The Summer Workshop is central to this mission. It is a space where scholars refine their academic skills, strengthen their intellectual identities, and envision themselves as change‑makers in their fields.

Faculty play a key role in this work. We seek educators who view teaching as relational, community‑driven, and liberatory, and who approach the virtual classroom as a place where underrepresented scholars gain both confidence and the critical frameworks necessary for graduate study and beyond.

Each year, the Summer Workshop brings together about 100 scholars pursuing advanced studies in education, the humanities, and the social sciences. Through seminars, writing workshops, coaching, and community building, faculty guide scholars as they prepare for the graduate admissions process and situate their interests within broader intellectual traditions.

The 2026 program is fully virtual and includes orientation, collaborative curriculum planning, a mid‑July Graduate Recruitment Fair, and a faculty reflection session after the workshop.

June 15–25: Virtual faculty onboarding (flexible, part time; IRT closed June 19) 
June 29–July 23: Summer Workshop (IRT closed July 3) 
July 17–18: Virtual Recruiters Weekend 
July 24: Faculty debrief and reflection

Our scholars are emerging intellectuals, community members, and future leaders. Because our workshop is intentionally relational, faculty serve as instructors, mentors, and thought partners who support scholars through the vulnerable and empowering process of seeing themselves as belonging in the academy.

• Believe education can advance liberation, collective empowerment, and social transformation
• View advising as relational work grounded in trust, care, and accountability
• Use pedagogies that honorstudentslived experiences and intellectual autonomy
• Recognize cultural, linguistic, and community knowledge as assets
• Understand the graduate school landscape and its hidden curriculum
• Collaborate openly and generously in virtual environments
• Bring curiosity, courage, and a strong commitment to equity

Faculty lead sessions such as text analysis, graduate‑level writing strategies, chalk talks on navigating graduate school, and seminars connecting scholars’ interests with critical and philosophical frameworks.

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Alumni of the IRT Summer Workshop or Associate Program
• Enrollment in or completion of a graduate program in education, humanities, social sciences, or mathematics
• Master’s degree and relevant experience in education, or at least one year of doctoral study
• Familiarity with critical, cultural, and liberatory frameworks
• Experience mentoring or advising students from historically marginalized backgrounds
• Strong interpersonal skills and readiness to engage fully in the workshop community
• At least 24 years old by June 1, 2026

Submit the following through the Phillips Academy Andover ADP Job Application Portal:

1. Statement of Intent(300 words max) addressing:

1. Your current research interests and how you would integrate them into workshop sessions toassistscholars in connecting their curiosities with critical and philosophical frameworks

1. Your understanding of what it means to be a professional intellectual, and how that orientation shapes your approach to liberatory teaching

1. Résumé

1. Contact information for three references

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Selected candidates will be invited to interview. Offers follow interviews; please confirm full availability before accepting.

Application Deadline: April 3, 2026