Dean of Instruction

Ignite Community Schools is a nonprofit public charter school network that prepares students in educationally underserved communities for college success. Ignite provides a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum outstanding educators more time in class a strong culture of achievement extracurricular activities and support to help our students make significant academic gains.

Our mission at Ignite Community Schools is to empower economically disadvantaged children to create the opportunities they deserve! Despite their lack of access to purposeful instruction were committed to helping prove whats possible for public school students across Texas. With families and communities Ignite will foster a joyful academic experience that empowers scholars with the skills and confidence to become change agents in our society and build a better world!

Our Core Values:

We teach with integrity because our principles dont waver.

We thrive with resilience no matter what the challenge.

We lead with courage because our children deserve it.

We commit to equity because its the right thing to do.

We foster love for learning and each other.

We move with intentional urgency because our children cant wait to learn.

We read for life

Role Vision

Ignite Community School Deans of Instruction report to their assigned Campus Director. Our Principals provide leadership direction supervision and accountability for the delegated campus and its programs. Ignite Community School Principals are instructional leaders who coach and develop teachers and lead team members at their schools to achieve ambitious goals with our scholars. Our Principals provide instructional leadership and develop and implement curriculum and programming for the campus programs with a sense of urgency. Ignite Principals are solution-oriented and creative problem solvers with experience in data analysis and creating and managing systems Setting high expectations and communicating with various stakeholders and effectively interacting with people across cultures.

Job Description - Key Responsibilities

Academic Excellence

-Goal: 90 or above for Academic Performance Student Growth or Relative Performance from the Texas Education Agency

-Goal: 90 or above for Closing the Gaps from the Texas Education Agency

-Ensure individual student growth plans are created to ensure that all scholars can show individual academic growth

- Focus on providing individualized and differentiated instruction to Emergent Bilingual and Special Education scholars

- Build knowledge and expertise in effective instructional design and academic standards for staff and self

- Develop teachers conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and

what instructional methods drive student mastery

-Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment

-Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high-quality instruction using Teach Like a Champion and Get Better Faster framework

- Lead analysis of and develop teachers ability to analyze student data to identify strategies that will move students toward mastery

- Regularly observe and coach instructional leaders to ensure they are providing high-impact actionable and bite-sized feedback to teachers weekly

- Ensure teachers can collaborate analyze their practice and their student data and adjust instruction in content teams

-Lead whole-school professional development workshops that drive the highest-impact improvements in teacher practice

-Evaluate lesson plans to provide teachers with the necessary feedback to be able to provide scholars with quality instruction

-Conduct Ongoing Data Conversations

-Make School-level Data-Driven Decisions

-Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Schools

School Leadership Responsibilities:

-90% Student Re-Enrollment

-85% Teacher Retention

-97.5% Average Daily Attendance for students

-Hold high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals Lead instructional staff to achieve measurable and ambitious results

-Lead instructional staff to improve their teaching quickly and measurably through daily observations on-the-spot coaching data conversations and effective evaluations.Supervise the implementation of TEKS based Ignite Community Schools curricula and assessments to meet ambitious academic expectations

- Review teachers weekly lesson plans and provide feedback

-Synthesize analyze and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies that achieve quantifiable goals

-Proactively identify opportunities to improve and consistently reflect on past actions to guide future decisions

-Communicate students progress with student and family

-Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify

• Effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a communication and educational tool to improve teacher development student achievement and manage work related tasks.Support the creation and implementation of a clear and consistent behavior management system while developing students character and sense of community
• Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student
• Manage disciplinary student behavior
• Oversee campus based tutoring sessions
• Participate in weekly manager check-ins grade-level meetings before and after-school duties and school wide meetings and functions
• Engage in summer and year-long district school and personal learning and development.Minimum of 40 hours spent at school per week
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by Campus Director

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics: Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change

• Ability to set the direction for a team and motivate others to action
• Demonstrated student achievement results in own classroom and from teachers that s/he manages
• Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
• Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across school-wide data.Expertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state assessments require of students knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies; deep understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of high-leverage instructional strategies based on comprehension of child/adolescent development and pedagogy
• Expertise in cultivating relationships and managing a diverse group of stakeholders.Has a propensity for action willing to make mistakes by doing to learn and improve quickly.Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships to achieve outcomes.Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to a high level of conduct professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

Qualifications

• Education: Masters degree
• Texas Principal Certification strongly preferred
• Proficient in Skyward strongly preferred
• Experience with TalentEd desired
• Experience: Must have a proven track record of personally achieving success and leading others 3 years of K 12 teaching experience
• 3 years of leading a school to dramatic gains in a challenging context
• Demonstrated leadership with the ability to lead people and get results through work with others.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks with a willingness to be flexible when needed. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment demonstrating strong prioritization organization and follow-up skills.
• Proficient in MS Office products internet and industry-specific software programs.Experience using data analysis to facilitate and support decision making
• Demonstration of effective teaching and learning practices
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal human relations and stress and conflict management skills.Excellent planning goal setting coordinating problem analysis and decision-making skills.Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation

Enthusiasm to engage parents and community