North Andover Middle School
Academic Coordinator 2025-2026
THIS IS ONLY FOR INTERNAL CANDIDATES.
Stipend Description
The Academic Coordinator must be a certified teacher who will assist the building principal assistant principals and K-12 curriculum coordinators in implementing the established School/district/department goals. This assistance will include facilitating Collaborative meetings involving Curriculum development data analysis instructional impact and other specified building-based duties. He/she must also have a working knowledge of Google Drive Google Documents Google Spreadsheets and be willing to work with any data analysis reporting tools.
Duties:
- Attend monthly meetings with building administrator(s) after school to plan future PD experiences (choosing protocols aligning outcomes)
- Attend monthly meetings with K-12 Curriculum coordinators
- Participate in a 4 hour summer professional development planning session to occur the week before the start of the school year
- Work with administrators to prepare and facilitate professional development time
- Facilitate all types of collaborative inquiry Cohorts (e.g. grade level school-wide district-wide)
- Facilitate the interpretation of data for curriculum and instruction decisions and student interVentio
- Collect and manage data for the following:
- purchase orders for administration approval
- Supply needs
- Department Based Duties
- Oversee the review and revision of curriculum
Compensation
- $5000 for Middle School English Social Studies Math and Science Department Coordinatorswhile maintaining their current course load.
- $5000 Unified Arts Department Coordinator position at the Middle School which could be split between two people (most likely Arts and Wellness) at the discretion of the principal. These Department Coordinators would also maintain their current course load.
These are one (1) year positions.
Contract Language:
Academic Stipends
- All Facilitators of Collaborative Inquiry Academic Coordinators and Lead Teacher positions are for a term of one (1) year and require annual reappointment by the Building Principal or Superintendents designee. By May 1st the Committee will decide which stipends shall be funded for the following year. At the discretion of the Superintendent a stipend position may be split between two (2) people.
- Any stipend paid to a member of the Association will contribute to the base salary for retirement pension.
- The decision whether to fund any stipend rests solely with the Committee.
- All stipend positions will be filled by using the following procedure:
- The position will be posted via the North Andover Public Schools website at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of appointment.
- The posting will include the qualifications duties and compensation for the position.
- Association members interested in applying for a position will submit an application through the NAPS website.
- All Facilitators of Collaborative Inquiry Academic Coordinators and Lead Teachers shall receive a written evaluation annually. For Academic Coordinators only the evaluation will include feedback from their department members collected via an anonymously completed assessment negotiated for the purpose of providing valuable and constructive feedback for the Academic Coordinator.
- Each of the following Facilitators of Collaborative Inquiry shall be paid a $3000 stipend. The Academic Coordinators shall be paid $5000. An additional $1000 shall be paid for participation in the Data and Assessment Cohort. The Cohort consists of three (3) facilitators from each level.
Middle School
Five (5) Academic Coordinators one of which will facilitate Related Arts
Required Experience:
IC