School Director in Training

Location

Bessemer, AL | United States

Job description

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Leadership

• AAHS Mission Driven: Demonstrate a sense of urgency about achievement for ALL students and preparing every student for post-secondary success
• Pursue solutions with tenacity that maximize student achievement. Is willing to do whatever it takes to get the work done right
• Model professional maturity; emotional constancy in stressful situations, bringing out the best in others, seeking solutions and positively motivating
• Mentor and coach staff members to encourage growth and results

• Identify and systematically develop future leaders
• Acts as a strategic partner to the School Director; fully responsible for executing the vision of the leader in all areas
• Supervise a substantial portion of the team

Culture

• Cultivate school culture centered on core values that deeply care for each student and staff member and hold each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability
• Coordinate with the school leadership team to ensure Morning Meetings are robust and supportive of our values-based culture
• Collaborate with school staff to maximize the ability of the school to support students’ academic and socio-emotional development
• Provide leadership to all staff and students in establishing a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and fun school culture

Instruction, Coaching, and Evaluation

• Provide instructional leadership informed by a nuanced understanding of AAHS best practices
• Use centralized coaching tool to track all coaching meetings, observations, and action steps
• Provide teachers with specific, actionable, qualitative (i.e., narrative) and quantitative (i.e., rubric) feedback on their performance in all areas
• Manage a data-driven instructional process that includes rigorous interim assessments that are effectively aligned with year-end assessments and college readiness. Able to align all other school leadership components to the data driven instructional process (professional development, curriculum development, teacher observation/supervision, etc
• Work with teachers to create and refine AAHS curriculum documents (assessments, plans, data tracking), which correspond to college readiness standards, core instructional practices, and the benchmark assessment program
• Create, maintain, and update whole school, grade level, and teacher level student academic and assessment records and reports
• Oversee required standardized testing
• Identify and arrange for staff development opportunities that relate to core instructional practices, standards-based assessments, and content areas
• Co-manage department chairs to ensure effective outcomes within departments

Systems

• Implement systems that “sweat the small stuff,” maximize the programmatic goals of the school, and are scalable as the school grows
• Develop solutions to complex problems involving all stakeholder

• Manage with fiscal responsibility - develop a disciplined planning process that identifies the school’s highest priorities

The School Director in Training will be evaluated based on data-driven performance indicators including, but not limited to student attendance, measurable student learning gains on nationally normed tests, internal benchmark assessments, and student retention and parent/student satisfaction.

Additional Duties:

• Recruit and hire school faculty
• Serve as a recruiter for new students; actively engage prospective families to draw more students to choose your school; be willing to take on additional tasks to support recruitment, as needed
• Actively engage in the community in which your school is located, and the broader Bessemer/Helena community as well. This includes community outreach, touring your school with elected officials and other community leaders, host community events, and encouraging staff to be present in the community.
• Actively engage in family communications by establishing norms and cadence with staff, and modeling strong positive family communications
• Work with AAHS Home Office to create network-wide standards, curriculum, and assessment documents
• Work with AAHS Home Office to create network-wide new teacher professional development; create school-specific new and returning teacher professional development
• Participate in network-wide Instructional Leadership Development and Culture Leadership Development
• If applicable, teach course(s) within the school
• If applicable, act as a REACH advisor for a group of students

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• An unwavering belief that all students can succeed in high school, reach their most ambitious post-secondary goals, and lead exemplary lives
• Desire to personally and professionally grow in their practice of becoming an anti-racist educator
• Self-awareness, a regular practice of reflection, and a desire to continuously improve
• 3+ years of teaching preferably in urban schools and/or communities
• 3+ years of experience as a Dean of Students, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, or Assistant Principal or equivalent leadership role required
• Experience at a high-performing charter school is highly preferred but not required
• Experience in an Administrative role preferred
• Experience in a School Leadership Development Program is highly preferred
• Evidence of driving meaningful and lasting results at the school level

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