Curriculum Administrator-- Humanities/ELA

Overview

The position of Humanities/ELA Curriculum Administrator joins three additional K-12 Curriculum Administrators in the areas of STEM/Applied Art, World Language/Bilingual, and SRBI and School Support.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to assure correlation between district Humanities/ELA curriculum, the District's coherence plan, Portrait of the Graduate and state/national standards.
• Develops, coordinates and monitors assessment, programs, and instructional priorities for Humanities/ELA academic programs and oversees implementation of existing and new curriculum initiatives district wide.
• Develops professional learning opportunities related to standards based content and related best practice pedagogical delivery.
• Affords assistance in the evaluation and assessment of the effectiveness of current Humanities/ELA academic programs, and their effect on student achievement across the K-12 programs.
• Affords assistance in conceptualizing, initiating and implementing new programs in identified, targeted areas as needed.
• Works closely to supervise effective coaching and support from Humanities/ELA Department Heads, and evaluates Department Heads and coaching effectiveness with attention to fidelity across all schools.
• Acts as liaison for program implementation to K-8 art, music and physical education departments.
• Collaborates with building Administrators to assess need for individualized planning to meet particularly identified building needs.
• Collaborates with other curriculum coordinators, program support staff, and administrators to provide vertically aligned instruction that meets the goals of the District coherence plan, with particular focus on Humanities/ELA instruction.
• Works closely with the Administrator for Data, Assessment & Research, content based Curriculum Administrators who impact Humanities/ELA instruction, and building Administrators to review data, assess plan and implementation effectiveness, and provide strategies for targeted improvement.
• Coordinates and maintains the Humanities/ELA Intervention Programs and assures consistency in our SRBI model.
• Maintains oversight of District and building intervention programs.
• Assists in the observation and evaluation of certified staff members using the District's Teacher Evaluation Plan.
• Provides input and coordination in the development of differentiated and meaningful Professional Development for certified staff.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in education, doctorate preferred.
• Graduate work in literacy, curriculum development, instruction and assessment preferred.
• Certificates: 092 Intermediate Administration and Supervision.
• Two to three years of demonstrated leadership experience, including but not limited to one or more of the following: data team, instructional leadership team, group leader, lead teacher or similar, building administrator.
• Demonstrated commitment to implementation of humanities programming.
• Two to three years of experience in conducting walk-throughs, formal and informal observations and evaluations for certified staff members.
• Two to three years of experience in student data analysis.
• Familiarity with DataWise or similar model preferred.
• Experience with budgeting at the department level or higher.
• Ability to communicate effectively, and to problem solve and resolve conflicts between leaders of academic priorities.
• Commitment to Systems Based approaches to organizational change.