Director of Arts and Wellness
About the role
The Director of Arts & Wellness will create a vision for enrichment of a comprehensive enrichment program. This is an opportunity for a leader with broad interests and skills in team building, academics, arts (dance, theatre, physical education, art, world languages), athletics, and maker's spaces creation and implementation. The Director of Core Enrichment will provide academic enrichment programs, professional development, and support to teachers to integrate the enrichment into core curriculum. Share in our community! Grow with our students! Join our district today and be a part of our future! The Allentown School District is committed to excellence! The richness of The Allentown School District's diversity is strengthened by its central role in educating our students for America's future through academic excellence and celebrating the culturally responsive, athletic and artistic range of talent in the schools. ASD students originate from 51 countries and speak 26 languages.
Responsibilities
- Provides knowledge and understanding of the PDE Standards Aligned System (SAS), Higher Order Thinking, and Formative Assessment.
- Provides leadership for ongoing and proposed curriculum projects for K-12 in the arts and world languages.
- Collaborates with the Executive Director of Professional Learning to provide professional development for related arts specialists and world language teachers.
- Recommends ways in which the curriculum can be adjusted and integrated in support of district goals and Strategic Framework.
- Demonstrates knowledge and use of a rich array of instructional approaches, resources, and technologies in instruction.
- Build and coordinate an academic enrichment program that utilizes the school's existing data and coordinates large and small group enrichment opportunities.
- Engages in research related to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation.
- Carry out strategic planning in developing new projects and initiatives in related arts content areas.