Regional Sr. Director of Instructional Programming

Description

About Aspire:

Aspire Public Schools operates a network of highperforming college preparatory charter schools serving TK12 scholars in communities across California. Founded in 1998in an effort to transform the inequitable racial social and gender outcomes that our communities persist throughAspire is one of the largest and most forwardthinking openenrollment public charter school systems in the nation.

Our purpose is to prepare our scholars for success in college career and life. At Aspire we set a foundation for our scholars to gain knowledge skills and power to access and make choices for their families and postsecondary lives. Every day our community of students families teachers and staff comes together to learn work and play in an environment grounded in our values of Bienestar (WellBeing) Culture of Belonging Community Partnership Agency & SelfDetermination and Joy.

GENERAL SUMMARY:
The Sr. Director of Instructional Programming is primarily and directly responsible for supervising coaching and managing school leaders in various settings (TK5 middle school and or high school) and Bay Area regional team roles that oversee regionwide instructional programming. The Sr. Directors role is to build the capacity of leaders and teammates as Equity leaders in service of disrupting the inequitable racial social and gender outcomes that our communities persist through. The Sr. Director will lead Regional Leaders in the areas of culturally responsive teaching school development curriculum planning and instruction and assistance for program implementation professional development and systematic program monitoring/evaluation. Programmatically the Sr. Director of Instructional Programming is also responsible for the regionwide instructional program which includes all content specific areas gradelevels and social emotional learning. The role will design plan and facilitate regional instructional leadership PD throughout the school year.

In collaboration with the Regional Leaders (i.e. Executive Director or other Sr. Directors) the Sr. Director will support the development implementation and evaluation of regional initiatives and other systemwide policies. Additionally the role is an integral part of the Regional Instructional Leadership and/or Equity Leadership teams. The person in this role requires an understanding of antiracist practices Culturally Responsive Leadership overall mission goals and objectives of Aspire and the region. The primary foci are to provide meaningful support for the principals and supporting administrators to disrupt racialized outcomes for scholars and lead regionwide instructional programming with a focus on the instructional core (content rigor and relevance teacher skill and knowledge and student engagement).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervision Curriculum and Staff Development

• Directly supervises school leaders including supporting the budgeting scheduling and implementation of both school operations and school instruction.
• Directly supervises Bay Area regional team roles (i.e. program managers directors or sr. managers etc.).
• Collaborates with other regional leaders to plan and facilitate school leader PD and communities of practice.
• Provides culturally responsive leadership to classroom programs by working with and coaching school principals and site leadership staff on adaptive and technical challenges
• Design and deliver robust professional development with academic program managers to ensure aligned meaningfully integrated socialemotional learning for school leaders school leadership teams and teachers.
• Reviews and analyzes data regarding student performance in order to more effectively support principals and direct their activities especially as it relates to racialized outcomes and identify culturally responsive practices to disrupt these outcomes
• Lead the regional instructional team to design strategically plan goal set and progress monitor the regionwide instructional program.
• Participates on the Aspirewide Instructional Leadership team with the Sr. Director of New Teacher Development and Secondary Programming
• Supports in the planning budgeting scheduling implementation and evaluation of professional development for principals.
• Develop and host regional communities of practice (e.g. secondary programming elementary programming etc)
• Supports the recruitment hiring and retention of qualified supporting administrators and teachers
• Collaborates on a regular basis with other members of the regional team
• Ensures explicit connections between coaching and professional development with leveraging the Transformational Leadership Framework (TLF) and Aspire Student Learning Framework (ASLF).
• Frequent or daily travel to school sites to be onsite at schools and will require periodic travel to all Aspire regions and/or other locations for conferences/professional development
• Performs related duties as required or assigned.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Demonstrate knowledge of and support the Aspire Public Schools mission vision value statements including antiracism policies and procedures operating instructions confidentiality standards and the code of ethical behavior
• Ability to problem solve and articulate a clear vision for the region.
• Broad knowledge of the methodology procedures policies and practices of the specialties required to deliver quality instructional support especially re CCSS and culturally responsive teaching and leadership.
• Comprehensive knowledge of curriculum and effective culturally responsive instructional practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge of curriculum and instructional evaluation methods and procedures.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Aspire Public Schools organization and operations.
• Ability to manage fiscal and physical resources and to direct the operations of a broad range of activities through other school and regional managers to successfully carry out instructional support activities.
• Ability to design develop and direct the implementation of plans and programs.
• Ability to establish and maintain successful working relationships with staff students and parents.
• Ability to communicate skillfully both orally and in writing including preparing complex reports making formal oral presentations and participating effectively in a variety of meetings.
• Comfort with engaging in conversations that might push people out of their comfort zones especially in regards to discussions about race and educational equity

• This role will require travel up to 80% time to schools across the region and will require some periodic travel to all Aspire regions and/or other locations for conferences/professional development
• Excellent human relations skills.

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree
• Masters degree from an accredited college or university preferred
• Possession of an administrative credential in school administration preferred

EXPERIENCE

• 7 years of field experience in education
• 5 years of experience as a principal
• Experience supervising principals is preferred.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to plan organize coordinate and direct varied and extensive teaching programs; ability to coordinate the overall Developmental program for Aspire.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with principals teachers supervisors other responsible school officials local and state officials and with parents.
• Experience working with students families and staff from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Compensation:

Aspire Public Schools is dedicated to our teammates wellbeing! In addition to a competitive base salary that is benchmarked against local districts and charter schools we offer employees exceptional benefits including paid time off 100% core health benefits coverage on select plans life insurance/longterm disability participation in a CA state retirement plan tuition reimbursement plan and adoption assistance program.

Aspire Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color gender religion age sexual orientation national or ethnic origin disability marital status veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Aspire promotes affirmative action for minorities women disabled persons and veterans.