Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Chicago Public Schools – Office of School Turnaround, USA.
The Director of Curriculum & Instruction will work closely with school teaching department leaders at Turnaround schools and the Office of School Turnaround (OST) Team to manage all aspects of curriculum, implementation and assessment. Principal Accountabilities Promote a widely shared institutional belief that every child deserves and can have expert instruction and that all team members must be advocates for students.
Viable candidates for the Curriculum & Instruction vacancy will have mastered the following prior to application:
- Knowledge of current education policy trends
- Proven experience leading urban high schools to higher test scores
- Extensive knowledge of interim assessment systems
- Success with professional development design and delivery to help teachers raise test scores using data
- A belief that every student can learn to high levels
Turnaround Administrators are highly motivated educational change agents who possess these characteristics:
- Self starting
- Able to adapt to the complexities of the urban school environment
- Strong beliefs that all students can learn and thrive when given the chance and a demonstrated commitment to social justice
- Creative thinking
- Analytical
- Familiar with best practices on the school level that create and sustain change
- Able to build capacity in others
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