Associate Curriculum, Assessment, and Data Manager- English Language Arts

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF CLASSIFICATION: The Associate Curriculum Assessment and Data Manager for English Language Arts will provide proactive collaborative leadership to support the execution of key strategic initiatives related to ELA. Will support and strengthen the management of a system wide ELA initiative aimed at developing staff to ensure District goals are QUALIFICATION STANDARDSKNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Thorough knowledge of current educational principles best practices and procedures in development and implementation of ELA curriculum instruction and assessment. Knowledge of local state and national standards and assessments and ability to support their application development and implementation. Knowledge of use of technology as an educational tool to support learning multicultural instructional materials and experience teaching across disciplines and with diverse populations. With the support of the CDAM for ELA able to provide leadership for professional development building capacity in ELA instruction. Ability to support the monitoring of implementation of strategic initiatives and support the districts goals through school visits data analysis and collaboration with other NBPS offices. Ability to effectively collaborate with staff parents and state and national colleagues to implement and monitor the strategic excellent planning organization management communications (oral and written) and human relations skills. Ability to prepare documents and presentations for a variety of audiences about the ELA program. Have clear and demonstrated dedication to urban education and to the belief that all students can learn in order to develop the mission of educational excellence in New Bedford Public in curriculum implementation quantitative data collection analysis interpretation and reporting with strong focus on data quality and continuous improvement with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; and in evaluating and learning new computer programs and familiarity with both Mac and PC operating problem solver who demonstrates work ethic coupled with an enthusiastic and passionate approach to ones duties as assigned by the Superintendent and Deputy SuperintendentEDUCATION TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors degree required and Masters degree desired from accredited college or university. Course work in educational leadership or administration. Minimum seven years combined experience as a classroom teacher and/or successful recent leadership experience in assessing program needs instructional planning assessment development and professional AND RESPONSIBILITIESCurriculum:Support the implementation and evaluation of new lead a team of administrators and teachers who will assist in curriculum support the review/assessment of current curriculum to ensure that course/program is meeting intended grade level curriculum evaluations and data to make recommendations for how to improve implementation of curricula on a regular basis through the use of a curriculum revision :Collaborate to define and execute testing calendar and develop a plan to support test administration and data collections for all schools in managing implementation and administration of all state district and school common with school leadership teams to support each schools interim assessment protocols to analyze data and support school leaders in identifying areas for improvement;Collect and disseminate best practices external resources in the areas of benchmark and unit assessment with district and school leadership to identify key metrics to monitor district school and student progress to allow for informed decision manage and report on staff student and community and Reporting (as required by supervising CDAM):Conduct statistical analysis of student achievement data and school information and maintain data warehouse of all student assessment scores (state district and school data and others as identified).Provide timely and clear reports on data of data dashboards and other regular reports or analysis that answer questions for key stakeholders provide insight on student school and district performance trends and patterns; and informs discussions and strategic decisions at the district and school levels (e.g. aggregate and subgroup trends).Collaborate to create a public package of achievement and other student-level data and provide a clear understanding of what the data means to critical audiences (School Committee families and community foundations etc.) working with the Community Relations Manager to message the information in a public-friendly wayCollaboratively assess and recommend data software solutions evaluate implementation of systems technologies and business practices related to data Management:Assist district administrators in preparing and administering reports to comply with federal and state and Development:Collaborate with Deputy Superintendent and other Office of School Performance leaders to conduct significant professional development around new initiatives in the areas of curriculum data management and key findings from analysis and develop implementation models for district and school leaders to act upon data supervise Managers of Educator Quality for as Office of School Performance point of contact for building based administration as directed by CDAM for ELAAssists with supervision of PrincipalsTERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:CERTIFICATE AND LICENSE REQUIREMENTS: Meet appropriate DESE Administrator requirements or ability to do soPHYSICAL DEMANDS (Special requirements such as lifting heavy objects and frequent climbing): NONESPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (Frequent overtime or night work required etc.): Some extended day work required. Occasional attendance at evening meetings (i.e. School Committee PTA and community).OVERTIME ELIGIBLE: NOREPORTS TO: CDAM for ELA OR DESIGNEESALARY: $120000-$130000 Non-Union 12 Months This description may change at any time

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