High School - Instructional Manager

Major Performance Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage and Develop Talent: Select, recruit, onboard, train, evaluate, and manage LEAD teachers. Conduct formal performance reviews and compensation discussions in alignment with LEAD human resource practices and policies.
• Engage teachers in reflective thinking while looking critically at their instructional practices. Build rapport with teachers and direct reports.
• Motivate and inspire teachers to prioritize student outcomes as the ultimate goal for all professional efforts.
• Curriculum and Content Specialist: Promote the implementation of state standards through LPS agreed-upon academic curricula. Increase teacher content knowledge by acting as a content area expert. Dissect standards to guide the identification of essential knowledge, skills, and learning targets. Engage in outside professional learning opportunities and professional readings. Participate in the network Coaching Cohort/Professional Learning Communities.
• Instructional Leadership: Collaborate with Assistant Principal of Instruction and LPS Academic Team to facilitate teachers’ understanding and implementation of the Tennessee Academic Standards and LPS Academic Model. Develop and execute integrated and individual learning cycles for teacher professional growth as well as best practices in coaching. Create detailed coaching plans, which include focused goals and measures of success, to drive professional learning cycles. Support teachers’ achievement of goals by tracking teacher progress and using coaching strategies that gradually release responsibility for implementing instructional practices to the teacher (e.g., co-planning, modeling, co-teaching, side-by-side coaching, and observing). Develop teacher capacity to consistently analyze instructional practice through ongoing classroom observations, examination of student work, and other sources of data to improve student learning.
• Professional Learning Facilitator: Collaborate with the Assistant Principal of Instruction, Principal, and Network Academic Team, and teacher leaders to create, revise, and/or facilitate professional learning aligned to teacher needs and student outcomes. Support the design and adjustments of a quarterly to an annual professional learning plan. Analyze feedback to guide future professional learning priorities. Identify teachers in need of an individual professional learning plan (for acceleration or improvement).

Experience and Education

• Valid teaching license and eligibility for TN licensure preferred.
• At least three years of exemplary teaching experience including strong pedagogical background.
• Coaching experience preferred with knowledge of, and experience with, instructional moves.
• At least some experience leading a group of adults in an educational K-12 setting (Grade Level Chair, Content Lead, etc.), adult management experience preferred, specifically experience facilitating teams and supporting results-oriented goals.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution. A Master’s degree is preferred, but experience leading in a school and managing teams successfully is paramount.

Competencies

• Foundational Competencies: Self-awareness, Learning agility, Influence, Communication/leadership presence, Mission-driven.
• Develop Talent: Coach for development, Provide constructive feedback.
• Motivate and engage others, Build Relationships, Builds trust, Manage conflict, Challenges appropriately, Collaborates and partners, Achieve Desired Outcomes, Priority setting, Adapt to the situation, Direct others, Decisiveness.

Application

To learn more about the work of LEAD Public Schools and to apply, please go to www.leadpublicschools.org.