Middle School ELA Department Head
Middle School ELA Department Head
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17-04-2025
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17-04-2025
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About Carroll School:Located in Waltham Lincoln and Wayland Massachusetts Carroll School is an independent day school that serves students with languagebased learning differences such as dyslexia. Carroll School empowers children to become academically skilled students who are strong selfadvocates and confident lifelong learners prepared to enter other academic settings. Carroll is an inclusive community committed to embracing diverse strengths identities and lived experiences in order to give each child what they most need to thrive. The Carroll Middle School is located on the Lincoln campus and serves grades 68. Diversity is essential at Carroll. Creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace is an important part of our mission that fosters greater creativity innovation and connection to the communities we serve. That mission starts here by building a robust diverse talent pool. No matter what makes you uniquely different size color culture gender identity and expression beliefs religion age race know that you are welcome here. Your difference makes Carroll stronger. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups apply to jobs if they meet 100 of the qualifications. Carroll School encourages you to break that statistic and apply as its rare to find applicants who meet all the qualifications. We look forward to receiving your application. Carroll School is an equal opportunity employer that offers competitive salary and benefits including a strong professional development programming such as; Orton Gillingham training. Position Summary::This position provides academic leadership for the Middle Schools ELA Department as a member of the Academic Leadership Team with close collaboration with the History department in particular. This position seeks to find a leader with an ELA background. Responsible under the direction of the Head of Middle School for the scope and sequence and integrity of the curriculum across the grades and for supporting and evaluating teachers in delivering the curriculum to students with languagebased learning differences through a culturally responsive lens.Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with teachers and academic leaders to create class groupings:
- Creates homogenous ELA class groupings that best meet the whole childs needs including the academic and social/ emotional needs of individual students.
- Gathers input from ELA and Language Focus Area* (LFA) teachers to place students in Focus Area* (FA) classes that address the students greatest area of academic need. Grouping for FA classes also involves collaboration with other academic leaders.
- Teaches 1 section of Middle School ELA or Focus Area class
- Trains new teachers (ELA) in programs used in ELA classes: Project Reads Framing Your Thoughts & Report Form Carroll Middle School Writing Curriculum grammar conventions etc and supports those teachers in implementation.
- Encourages the development of teacher knowledge and skills through coaching observations teacher / peer observations and professional development workshops with the goal of improving teacher expertise and delivery of instruction to students through a culturally responsive lens.
- Chairs regularly scheduled Department meetings with the goal of encouraging collaboration among teachers sharing pertinent information developing academic technology integration skills inviting colleagues to train teachers on new educational developments previewing upcoming events such as parent conferences etc.
- Supports teachers at parent conferences Student Action Plan meetings and any other situations in which a teacher asks for or benefits from Department Head assistance.
- Responds to families questions and concerns as it relates to a students ELA and/or Focus Area experience.
- Responsible for overseeing and monitoring student progress through the use of data analysis and teacher feedback.
- Budgets for annual departmental expenses which include the ordering of class materials such as book sets student workbooks relevant subscriptions etc.
- Sits on the Admission Committee interviewing and assessing students applying to the Middle School and participating in meetings that make decisions about candidates.
- Represents The Carroll School at required special events such as Open Houses Parents Day etc. *Focus Areas are small classes that target an area of great need; Language Focus Areas center around developing reading and writing skills
Employment Type
Full-Time
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