Job Title: Director of Assessment and Accountability Wage/Hour Status: Exempt

Reports to: Executive Director of Accountability and School Improvement Pay Grade: Admin 7

Dept. /School: Accountability Days: 227

Supervises: Coordinator of State Assessments

Primary Purpose: To continuously analyze evaluate and predict accountability trends and areas of opportunity for our district.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelors degree required
• Masters degree required
• Valid Texas teaching certificate required
• Administrator certificate required
• Campus administrative experience (assistant principal dean or principal) preferred

Special Knowledge Skills:

• Demonstrated leadership
• Proven time management and organizational skills
• Proven experience in planning organizing and presenting staff development sessions
• Demonstrate proficiency in typing Microsoft Suite One Note One Drove Share Point Google Docs
• Ability to organize maintain and retrieve from a large system
• Personal qualities of tact courtesy dependability and initiative
• Proficiency in student information data management systems
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent or their designee may find appropriate and acceptable.

Experience:

• Three years successful teaching experience
• At least 2 years successful campus administration preferred

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Participate in the planning implementation and evaluation of the Indicators of Success and the board goals
2. Compiles analyzes and transforms multiple sources of data as required for the analysis or evaluation of various projects programs and/or proposals that measures the progress of educational performance and achievement of students in locally and federally funded programs
3. Supports the Executive Director of Accountability and School Improvement by providing information that advises staff and the School Board on policy related to student achievement and assessment
4. Ensure district-wide compliance with all federal and state accountability requirements
5. Cooperate with other ECISD departments in the coordination of assessment and testing
6. Ensure the execution of all testing programs and required trainings throughout the district associated with accountability are within TEA guidelines
7. Maintain a working knowledge of all district assessments and assessment vendors and platforms (TIDE Cambium TestHound Eduphoria NWEA MAP etc.) and their local and state accountability implications
8. Oversee the execution of training for all local and state assessments to all district staff
9. Service as point of contact to outside organizations contracted for reporting of state assessment results (College Board etc)
10. Coordinate the assessment of students and former students requesting assessment for graduation purposes
11. Coordinate distribution of assessment results to campus personnel administrators and district-level departments including identification of students requiring HB1416 interventions (from TIDE Eduphoria etc)
12. Work with the Executive Director of Accountability and School Improvement to regularly collect and analyze assessment data to determine district campus and department areas of opportunity (EOC re-testers MAP predictions trends of previous-year STAAR etc.) related to accountability implications
13. Assists the Executive Director of Accountability and School Improvement in developing and/or providing reports and presentations to the School Board and other administrative roles
14. Create gain approval of disseminate and regularly update the District Testing Calendar
15. Prepare public notifications of test administrations to CTCs and approve (prior to release) public notification of test administrations to Campus Testing Coordinators (CTCs) and campus administrators
16. Remain knowledgeable of all state assessments and their accountability implications
17. Monitor investigate report and gather information (from Coordinator of State Assessments campuses CTCs) regarding testing irregularities and immediately report to TEA
18. Attend necessary regional and state assessment workshops meetings and conferences
19. Serve as the District Testing Coordinator (DTC) and attend all required District Coordinator training(s)
20. Provide analysis of data-driven instructional practices to help identify strengths and weaknesses in district academic programs and initiatives
21. Communication accountability-related predictions trends and analysis to campus administrators as requested by the Executive Director of Accountability and School Improvement
22. Ensure that elementary and secondary campuses have accurate student data regarding all testing opportunities and accountability-related metrics
23. Gather necessary assessment and accountability reporting as directed by Accountability and School Improvement
24. Support the Coordinator of State Assessments with all assessment related professional development training testing windows district monitoring and other necessary tasks
25. Aggregate and disaggregate district and campus data for the purpose of district professional learning and data literacy
26. Design create and facilitate data literacy professional learning for campus and district leaders
27. Coordinate and conduct Data Tours connecting district assessments (MAP Interim Benchmark etc) to school and district accountability metrics for campus principals and assistant principals
28. Tailors and conducts Data Tours connecting district assessments to the needs of district departments (Curriculum and Instruction Special Education etc.)
29. Analyzes and prepares reports from local state and national assessment data as it relates to individual student performance and school improvement
30. Coordinate district systems and processes for Results Driven Accountability (RDA) including coordination within and between district departments communication with TEA focus groups RDA committee meetings campus walks and other established district practices
31. Facilitates collaboration across district departments for the development of RDA Strategic Support Plans (SSPs) as required by TEA
32. Ensure the submission of required SSPs associated evidence of implementation and self-assessments to TEA by identified teams
33. Monitor track and complete internal data requests related to assessment and accountability
34. Participate in PEIMS validation for accountability metrics
35. Remain knowledgeable about assessment and accountability policies impacting various district teams and departments (Curriculum and Instruction Emergent Bilingual Special Education and other student populations)
36. Perform duties in a professional ethical and responsible manner as defined in the TEA code of Ethics for Educators and District Handbook including maintaining security and ethical use of student data
37. All other duties as assigned

Working Conditions:

Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

Maintain emotional control under stress. Frequent districtwide and statewide travel; may be required to work after hours and weekends.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must have met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made if necessary while performing the duties of this job. The employee is regularly required to sit stand move throughout the room and/or facility communicate verbally and electronically use hands to finger-handle or feel objects tools or controls reach with hands and arms kneel stoop crouch and/or crawl and climb or balance. Regularly required to lift or exert force of up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Regular attendance is required.

Required Experience:

Director