Director of School Design

School Redesign Leadership

Co-lead, with the Senior Director of Innovation and the site ED, a multi-year redesign and turnaround strategy for the school in alignment to the Future Ready School Model.

Diagnose root challenges and opportunities in culture, instruction, schedule/time, student supports, and operations; translate these into a sequenced transformation plan.

Facilitate site-based design cycles with educators, students, families, and community partners.

Ensure the school’s redesign remains coherent, realistic, and measurable and is integrated into day-to-day school leadership priorities.

Model a “learn fast, build smart” mindset—keeping urgency high while maintaining trust and collaboration.

Community Engagement & Co-Design

Engage a diverse set of stakeholders—students, families, educators, alumni, and community partners—to surface aspirations, concerns, and local context that must shape the redesign.

Design and facilitate inclusive, well-run community learning sessions (listening tours, design charrettes, town halls, student focus groups, caregiver convenings) that build shared ownership for change.

Translate community input into clear design requirements, tradeoffs, and priorities for the three-year turnaround plan.

Build and sustain partnerships with local organizations and employers that can power real-world learning, internships, and community-anchored projects.

Ensure engagement practices are culturally responsive, accessible, and transparent, with feedback loops that show stakeholders how their input influenced decisions.

Embedded Pilot Design & Implementation

Design and run site-based pilots that test key components of Summit 3.0 within the school context (e.g., flexible time, AI-enabled tools, real-world learning structures, assessment/credit innovations).

Define success metrics tied to student outcomes and school health; monitor progress and adapt quickly.

Partner with teachers and school leadership to plan, launch, and refine pilots; remove barriers and provide hands-on implementation support.

Produce mid-year and end-of-year learning summaries for the Studio and site leadership.

Change Management & Capacity Building

Support adult learning and change management to ensure that new practices are understood, owned, and sustained by school staff.

Build internal leadership capacity by coaching teacher leaders and administrators through redesign decisions and implementation.

Support hiring, onboarding, and role realignment at the site as needed to enable the redesigned model.

Help establish the school’s culture and operating rhythms required for long-term sustainability.

Cross-Functional Bridge to Marshall Innovation

Serve as the primary conduit between the school site and the Marshall Innovation, ensuring tight alignment to the multi-year roadmap.

Document design choices, promising practices, and implementation lessons.

Communicate to capture site-level stories, artifacts, and evidence for internal/external learning.

Inform network-wide codification and scaling with grounded insights from site implementation.

Qualifications

• Deep belief in Summit’s mission and in the need to transform public high schools for a future-ready world.
• Strong school-design and systems-thinking skillset: you can see the whole school as an interconnected system and redesign it accordingly.
• Expert at translating vision into practical implementation, with a bias toward action and iteration.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable leading without formal authority in a shared-power environment.
• Skilled facilitator who can bring diverse stakeholders into a coherent design and change process.
• Data-informed and research-literate; able to set metrics, read signals, and adjust course.
• Thrives in ambiguity and rapid learning cycles; nimble in the face of real-world school constraints.
• Excellent communicator, especially in writing clear plans, briefs, and artifacts.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in school leadership as a Principal or Director, educational innovation, program design, or turnaround work.
• Demonstrated success leading complex change initiatives in schools or youth-serving systems.
• Track Record of Results Experience leading R & D to pilot and scaling new instructional, cultural, or operational models.
• Excitement and potential experience in integrated opportunities using Ai and other technologies to support learning outcomes, experience design and supporting students in postsecondary pathways.
• Expertise and experience with continuous improvement, human-centered design, and research translation.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and comfort with emerging technologies.
• Clear background check.

Pay

The salary range for this position begins at $135,509 and goes up to $160,310, commensurate with experience and qualifications.