MS Content Leads (SY26-27, Middle School)

Purpose

The Content Lead is a teacher leader collaborating closely with the Principal and Assistant Principal. They are responsible for creating a culture of high academic expectations and ensuring teacher support and development around teaching and learning, e.g., lesson planning and data-informed practices. The Content Lead receives a stipend for additional work outside of their teaching role and hours.

What You'll Do

• Lead Planning Meetings
  Facilitate weekly planning meetings to support teachers in their intellectual prep and understanding targeted standards for a unit (or the text and standards if ELA)
  Lead unit launches to ensure the team utilizes backwards planning, is grounded in exemplars, and prioritizes appropriate standards
  Collaborate with an AP to prioritize pacing for the unit and to clarify where individual teacher choice points exist in daily lesson plans
  Model the use of exemplars to drive discussions about planning
  Utilize an anti-racist lens when facilitating discussions about curriculum, instruction, and planning

• Data Meetings
  Use See It, Name It, Do It structure to facilitate weekly data meetings grounded in standards and student work, such as exit tickets, interim assessments, unit assessments, etc.
  Support the team in prioritizing which student assignments to review each week
  Actively use Jumprope to understand trends in student learning and mastery of standards
  Collaborate with an AP to identify strengths and gaps in student learning
  Keep academic goals front and center and report out regularly to the team around progress and challenges
  Utilize an anti-racist lens when looking at data to help identify equity strengths and gaps: ensure student data compilations, meetings, and reports provide data for subgroups including but not limited to race, gender, language learners, and students with learning disabilities

• Curriculum Materials and Calendar Management
  Ensure the team has access to curriculum materials, unit and daily lesson plans, and all assessments
  Create a curriculum and assessment calendar in close collaboration with an AP so teachers know what to teach when and are prepared for administration of assessments
  Collaborate with the Director of Operations and/or AP around test administration (e.g., ANet, MCAS, ACCESS)
  Keep Dropbox and/or Google drive organized so teachers can easily access needed materials (if we do not adopt curriculum materials that are already posted somewhere)
  Ensure teachers are clear about priority standards and key resources to use for tutoring

• Anti-Racism Work
  Internalize Veritas Anti-Racism Standards and utilize them to ensure curriculum reflects our students' lives and that assessments are intentionally developed and selected with anti-racism principles in mind
  Be available to support teachers who need extra guidance around intellectual prep

Team Development

• Encourage team collaboration around anti-racism and equity work at Veritas using key tools such as the Veritas Anti-racism Standards and the Teaching for Equity Framework from Leading Educators
  Model how to effectively partner with Special Education and MLL Teachers to support student needs
  Support team members in learning how to navigate and utilize tech platforms, e.g., Edulastic, Nearpod, Actively Learn, ANet, Dropbox, etc
  Model a solutions-oriented mindset when tackling challenging issues and decisions
  Develop skills around facilitating difficult conversations
  Be available to support teachers who need extra guidance around intellectual prep

Requirements

• Ability to hold a high bar for grade-level academic standards and academic performance
  Ability to collaborate across teams (culture, operations, etc.)
  Ability to utilize data to make decisions
  Commitment to creating clear, simple systems for organization
  Solutions-oriented mindset when navigating challenges
  Excitement to grow one's leadership skills with a community of other teacher leaders
  Willingness to learn from and alongside other grade level leads
  Ability to take feedback in order to improve one's meeting facilitation skills
  Commitment to anti-racism and ability to utilize the Veritas Anti-Racism Standards to promote change

Time Commitment

There will be two summer training dates scheduled 7/14 & 7/28
After-school meetings with other Content Leads (monthly or bimonthly)
Quarterly after-school professional development
Weekly tasks and preparation related to the role, as described above

Benefits

• $3,000 stipend
• Training and coaching from an AP and/or the Principal
• Regular feedback from peers around facilitation
• Access to additional professional development from outside providers