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Remote Internship Available with the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation

Internship Details

  • Internships are available for Fall, Spring, or Summer.
  • Writing and researching topics in the field of sleep, complementary and alternative medicine, neurology, and restless legs syndrome.
  • Internships include opportunities to work with leading experts in the field on assignments, revision of the Foundation’s library of educational materials, our advocacy outreach to increase awareness of RLS among policymakers, RLS survey, and blog posts for the Foundation’s Blog.

Dates: August 26 through November 15 for fall. January 25 through April 28 for spring.

Hours: 10 hours a week. Schedule is flexible; set deadlines for article submissions.

What You Get to Do: Interns work closely with editors on NightWalkers and eFriends as well as the RLS Foundation staff. Interns will help research, submit story ideas, and work on projects assigned for these publications and other Foundation materials including the RLS survey.  A successful internship will result in several online bylines, published articles in NightWalkers, eFriends, and the Foundation’s Blog.

Internship Requirements:

  • Professional attitude
  • Strong writing and editing skills are a must
  • Organized, self-starter, ability to meet deadlines, and strong interpersonal skillset
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Students working towards a Batchelor’s Degree in Pre-Med, Nursing, Biology, Chemistry, or Communications.

Compensation:  Current internships are unpaid.

To Apply:  Please email the following materials to the Executive Director, Karla Dzienkowski (karla@rls.org).

  • Resume with a cover letter and two references. Cover letter explaining why you are a good fit for the RLS Foundation and what skills and talents you have that make you a standout candidate.
  • Two writing sample (5-10 pages double spaced).

About the RLS Foundation

  • Restless Legs Syndrome is a serious neurological disorder that affects up to 10% of the population, with 3% severely affected.
  • The Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation is a §501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the millions of men, women, and children living with this devastating disease. Our goals are to conduct activities that promote awareness of the disease among the public and health care professional and to provide educational materials concerning research breakthroughs, available treatments, and personal stories, using both the broad reach of the web and the targeted power of authoritative printed materials. The Foundation is also active in seeking breakthrough treatments and cures for the disease; it sponsors the only research program devoted exclusively to those goals.
  • Founded in 1992, the RLS Foundation is unique in its mission to serve the RLS community from a 100% patient-oriented perspective. Our members look to us for unbiased information on treatment modalities, including FDA-approved medications to relieve symptoms. They know and trust that their financial contributions help support our sponsorships to scientists engaged in basic and development research. Everything we do is directed toward providing information, support, and hope to everyone who has this disease.
  • An independent Board of Directors composed of scientists, persons with RLS, businesspeople, and members with specialized skills (accounting, law, etc.) governs the Foundation. In addition, the Board has established an advisory group: The Scientific and Medical Advisory Board (SMAB). The SMAB ensures that the Foundation is aware of advances in both basic research and clinical knowledge.
  • The Foundation maintains a website, a Facebook presence, a Twitter account, Instagram account, and publishes a quarterly members’ newsletter, NightWalkers, and monthly e-newsletter, eFriends.
  • We take our mission of service to our members seriously. We fulfill that obligation in several ways, including responding to general medical questions in a column in NightWalkers and personally assisting members who call or write to us seeking information. Perhaps the most important direct service we provide is through our Support Groups. The Foundation has established a network of over 70 Support Groups in the United States and Canada. Led by dedicated trained volunteers, these Support Groups work at the local level to provide information to RLS sufferers, using Foundation materials.
  • In addition to the Support Group Network, the Foundation relies upon a second network, a group we call our Quality Care Centers. Staffed by RLS experts with extensive experience treating individuals suffering from the disease, our Quality Care Centers are located at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Stanford in Palo Alto, The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Houston Methodist in Houston, Yale in New Haven, Massachusetts General in Boston, Emory in Atlanta, Vanderbilt in Nashville, Scripps in San Diego, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland in Switzerland and the Innsbruck Medical University in Austria.
  • More information can be found on our website at https://www.rls.org/.

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In-person Internships Available with Sammy’s House

About Sammy’s House

Sammy’s House is a nonprofit agency that provides services for children with and without special needs.  We operate a child development center, a respite care program, summer camp and family support services to fill the gaps in services for children, especially those who are medically fragile and/or developmentally delayed in the Austin, TX and surrounding area. Our programs serve children 0-16 years old. For more information, please visit https://sammyshouse.org/.

Internship Details

Sammy’s House is looking for students who are able to assist with direct care in our infant, toddler, Pre-K and afterschool classrooms. Greeting parents, completing daily activities, and primary care needs. Make a huge difference in the lives of children and the Austin community by joining our amazing team! Sammy’s House, a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality education and care to children of all abilities is seeking student interns. If you are enthusiastic, energetic and passionate about working with children, you might be a perfect fit. Must be able to lift 40 lbs. Posses a desire to work with children who have all abilities.

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to Rhoda Taylor, Program Director, at sammyshousecenterpd@yahoo.com. Internships are unpaid.

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Remote Internship Available with Academia Cuauhtli

Academia Cuauhtli

 

Mission Statement

Academia Cuauhtli (Eagle Academy) is a language and culture revitalization project for 4th-grade students from Metz, Perez, Sanchez, Zavala and Houston Elementary Schools from the Austin Independent School District (AISD). It offers instruction in Mexican American Studies and Tejano Studies curriculum. Our Saturday classes are completely free and taught in Spanish. Taught by AISD master dual language teachers and in the context of a 12-to-1 student-teacher ratio, we envision this curriculum as not only providing the academic support that the children need in preparation for their STAAR exams and academic performance, generally, but also providing enrichment for students that we anticipate will have enduring impacts for them. Academia Cuauhtli is a collaboration of Nuestro Grupo (a community-based group organized by the Texas Center for Education Policy and the Tejano Monument Curriculum Initiative, both at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Latino Education Research and Policy Project [NLERAP], its fiscal agent and national nonprofit organization), the Austin Independent School District, the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department and within it, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Academy Cuauhtli is a product of love, effort, and passion from our talented group of collaborators.

Internship Opportunity: Teaching Assistant & Community Engagement Associate

Academia Cuauhtli is looking for a Teaching Assistant who can assist in creating innovative lesson plans and enhancing the learning environment for our students. The teaching assistant will assist with the critical work of translating Academia Cuauhtli curriculum to a hybrid format for the fall semester. This work is vital to ensure student safety and continued connection with culturally revitalizing curriculum during this time. The ideal candidate for this position enjoys working with children, understands how they learn and is dedicated to creating and nurturing a learning atmosphere for every student.

Typical duties:

  • Assist in developing and transferring lesson plans based on Austin Independent School District (AISD) requirements and the specific needs of each child.
  • Collaborate with teachers to monitor the development of each child.
  • Work with children in the classroom to promote their learning and development.
  • Keep parents informed about their child’s development and any changes to the regular day-to-day schedule.
  • Transferring BLEND work to google classroom, facebook, and Academia Cuauhlti webstie.
  • Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
  • Attend weekly “Nuestro Grupo” meetings via zoom on Wednesdays from 7-8:30 pm
  • Attend three lectures/talk per semester from scholars from the college of education, LBJ School of Public Policy, Mexican American Studies, or from the Center for Women and Gender Studies, and prepare write-ups. We will email relevant events with students, however, students are also encouraged to seek their own, and to share what they find with the rest of the team at meetings. Lecture/talk write-ups are opportunities for students to link theories and frameworks to an integrative and comprehensive approach to PK-20 education/Academia Cuauhtli.
  • Students will be encouraged to join other Nuestro Grupo members and faculty and participate in the legislative process during the 2021 session in support of Ethnic Studies and other related proposals. Additional possible sites of intervention are the local school board, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center board, and the State Board of Education.

**Teaching assistants will have the opportunity to collaborate with curriculum writing in the summer with experienced AISD teachers, bilingual teachers, researchers, professors, etc. August/September 2020.

Through teaching, students should learn to be able to

  • Use enduring content and pedagogical knowledge to inform their teaching (know the content, critically evaluate the literature on effective practice)
  • Develop relevant, rigorous and developmentally appropriate curricula (critically evaluate and apply literature on development learning)
  • Modify curriculum and instruction based on individual needs of their students (address diversity in teaching/learning)
  • Use assessment of their students’ learning and their own teaching to inform future planning and teaching (reflect on P-12 student learning outcome data, problem solve, critically evaluate the literature on effective practice for use in the classroom).
  • Attend to the social and civic development of their students
  • Work respectfully & collaboratively with colleagues & community to ensure quality instructional programs & stewardship of public schools.

To apply for this position, please email a resume and cover letter to Maria Unda, Graduate Research Assistant, at academiacuauhtli.ut@gmail.com.