Coordinator of Digital Learning Salem Public Schools SY 2025-2026

Coordinator of Digital Learning Salem Public Schools SY

About Salem Public Schools where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4000 students in 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged globally connected and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging equity and opportunity in everything we do. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students regardless of ability economic status gender/gender identity language race/ethnicity sexual orientation or other backgrounds. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at Youll Do:

The Coordinator of Digital Learning acts as a visionary leader instructional coach technology advocate and collaborative partner to drive the effective and equitable integration of digital learning to enhance teaching and transform student outcomes. They need a strong understanding of both pedagogy and technology excellent communication and collaboration skills and a passion for innovation in education.

• Collaborate with district leaders principals and teachers to update the districts vision and strategic plan for digital learning that aligns with the districts overall goals.
• Designs develops and delivers highquality professional learning opportunities for teachers administrators and staff on effective technology integration digital tools and online teaching strategies.
• Provides 1:1 training and troubleshooting as needed per tech ticket system and admin requests
• Continuously researches and evaluates emerging technologies digital learning pedagogies and best practices to inform the districts strategy and ensure it remains innovative and effective including AI.
• Promotes and shares best practices in digital learning across the district fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Evaluates curates and creates highquality digital learning resources tools and content that are aligned with curriculum standards and meet the diverse needs of learners.
• Creates and maintains a robust bank of training resources.
• Extends support to school libraries as needed.
• Collaborates with curriculum directors instructional coaches and teachers to identify opportunities for meaningful technology integration that enhances curriculum delivery student engagement and learning outcomes across all subject areas.
• Provides technical support and configuration for key assessment and teaching & learning platforms.
• Performs training and assists with onboarding for new hires.
• Attends Academics Team meetings to increase efficiency through crossdepartment collaboration.
• Contributes to the Library & Digital Learning Specialist job alike meetings

What Youll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change childrens lives through education. Youll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families The SPS community is vibrant diverse in background ethnicity language and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and value our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us in doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself students and colleagues You see potential in all especially our SPS students and maintain high expectations for achievement while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic caring relationships with teachers students administrators and other stakeholders You build strong relationships that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.

Embrace feedback You are a reflective practitioner who learns from failure using mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• 35 years of digital learning experience preferably in an urban public school setting
• Demonstrated aptitude and competence for completing assigned responsibilities with a high level of independence and accuracy while keeping supervisors and team members appropriately informed and involved
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fastpaced environment
• Current and appropriate Massachusetts teaching certification/licensure in Instructional Technology or Digital Literacy/Computer Science is a plus
• Position requires travel between schools
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Work Year: Teachers in Salem Public Schools work a 185 day school year 180 student contact days plus 5 professional development days. Please click here to view the 202526 district and/or school calendars.

Salary: Teacher salaries in the Salem Public Schools are determined by the Salem Teachers Union collective bargaining agreement (see new 202427 language with updated salary information here.

Benefits: The City of Salem offers Group Insurance Commission (GIC) benefits to all fulltime employees. Click here for more information about our health benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identity sexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship status veteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.