Academic Director of the City Neighbors Foundation

Job Summary:City Neighbors Foundation is seeking a founding Academic Director who will partner with schoolleaders to envision and champion the academic vision, strategy, and instructional coherence acrossour K-12 schools, ensuring alignment with our mission of high-quality, progressive, inclusiveeducation for all students. This role involves coordinating mission-aligned instruction, facilitatingcurricular decision-making processes, supporting professional development, promoting the use ofauthentic data, and fostering teacher growth, all with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusionto create an enriching, community-centered learning environment.Key Responsibilities:Academic Vision and Strategy? Serve as the spokesperson for our academic vision, fostering coherence andconnection across schools, ensuring that educational programming is high-quality andmission-aligned.? Guide and assess the quality of instruction, maintaining and improving a project-based,arts-integrated, progressive, and innovative approach to learning.? Facilitate curriculum decision-making processes with school leaders.Educator Professional Development and Support? Partner with school leadership to co-create, and sometimes execute, collaborativeprofessional development spaces for educators, fostering an environment of continualgrowth.? Support teacher growth cycles, observation, and coaching across schools.? Lead organization-wide professional development such as New Educator Orientationand the Teaching Fellows Program.? Manage combined professional development, such as the annual City NeighborsSymposium and external teacher training partnerships, which promotes shared learningand innovation for all educators within City Neighbors.Instructional Data and Assessment? Lead our organizational data portfolio work, ensuring the effective use of authentic andmulti-faceted instructional data to improve learning outcomes.? Develop and collaborate on school-based data structures and systems to supportinstructional goals.Collaboration and School Leadership Support? Partner with principals to drive instructional excellence and conduct regular schoolwalkthroughs to support instructional practices and programming across campuses.Qualifications:? Demonstrated experience in K-12 progressive educational leadership, designing innovativecurricula, implementing student-centered instructional practices, project-based learning andarts integration.? Demonstrated success in leading educator-centered and collaborative professionaldevelopment and growth.? Experience and skill in analyzing and utilizing multifaceted and authentic data to inform andenhance student-centered learning practices? Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with school leaders, teachers, andcommunity partners.? Master's Degree or Educational Leadership Certification preferred.Salary$100,000 - $110,000 + $20,000 health benefits allowance and 3% retirement match.TimelineApplications will be considered on a rolling basis until January 30, 2025. The anticipated start dateis July 1, 2025.To ApplyTo apply, submit a resume and cover letter to Mike Chalupa, Director, atmchalupa@.Website

Created: 2025-01-29