TN Director of Schools

About the role

The TN Director of Schools serves as a vitally important leader in our organization, helping drive the success of our TN schools and principals.

Responsibilities

• Define key academic priorities and strategies to improve scholar outcomes in our TN schools.
• Ensure coherence in instructional vision across all grades and subjects, integrating best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
• Directly manage all TN principals as well as a Director on the network Academic Team.
• Support other school-based instructional leaders, including Principals and Assistant Principals in strengthening their instructional leadership skills and impact on scholar learning with a specific focus on literacy and humanities curriculum and instruction.
• Support on the development and execution of network-wide professional development summits for teachers and leaders as well as any TN region specific instructional development.
• Ensure that instructional practices across our TN schools reflect a high bar for rigor, engagement, and inclusivity.
• Support TN schools in designing engaging, affirming, and rigorous learning experiences that celebrate scholar identities and aspirations.

Qualifications

• Must have at least 2 to 3+ years of experience as a Principal.
• Demonstrated significant student achievement results as a school leader, and in-depth experience in school leadership and leading Principals and/or other school-based leaders.
• Strong pedagogy and practice in literacy curriculum and instruction at the middle and/or high school level.
• A bachelor’s degree with a preference for a graduate degree in a related field.
• Valid teaching certification in TN or in states with reciprocity, though not required, strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Retirement Plans: Employees may participate in TCRS retirement plan in Nashville, TN, or the Principal retirement plan in Jackson, MS.
• Paid Time Off: Employees receive 10 days of Paid Time Off, in addition to network closures. This includes 8 personal leave days and 2 mental health days.
• Paid Leave Programming: In the event an employee needs to take maternity or paternity leave, RePublic Schools provides paid medical leave based on length of service.
• Comprehensive Benefits Program: RePublic Schools provides $10,000 in employer-paid life insurance at 100% coverage. Additionally, the organization offers term life and disability insurance, as well as Carrot Fertility benefits, with 100% of the premiums covered by RePublic Schools.