Dean of Instruction- Ignite Fallbrook - ResponsiveEd

Brand Description 

Ignite Community Schools is a nonprofit, public charter school network that prepares students ineducationally underserved communities for college success. Ignite provides a rigorouscollege-preparatory curriculum, outstanding educators, more time in class, a strong culture ofachievement, extracurricular activities, and support to help our students make significant academicgains. 

Our mission at Ignite Community Schools is to empower economically disadvantaged children to createthe opportunities they deserve! Despite their lack of access to purposeful instruction, we’re committedto helping prove what’s possible for public school students across Texas. With families and communities,Ignite will foster a joyful academic experience that empowers scholars with the skills and confidence tobecome change agents in our society and build a better world! 

Our Core Values: 

We teach withintegritybecause our principles don’t waver. 

We thrive withresilienceno matter what the challenge. 

We lead withcouragebecause our children deserve it. 

We commit toequitybecause it’s the right thing to do. 

We fosterlovefor learning and each other. 

We move withintentional urgencybecause our children can’t wait to learn. 

Wereadfor life 

Role Vision 

Ignite Community School Deans of Instruction report to their assigned Campus Director. Our Principalsprovide leadership, direction, supervision, and accountability for the delegated campus and its programs.Ignite Community School Principals are instructional leaders who coach and develop teachers and leadteam members at their schools to achieve ambitious goals with our scholars. OurPrincipals provideinstructional leadership and develop and implement curriculum and programming for the campusprograms with a sense of urgency. Ignite Principals are solution-oriented and creative problem solverswith experience in data analysis and creating and managing systems, Setting high expectations andcommunicating with various stakeholders, and effectively interacting with people across cultures. 

Key Responsibilities:

Academic Excellence 

• Goal: 90 or above for Academic Performance, Student Growth, or Relative Performance from theTexas Education Agency
• Goal: 90 or above for Closing the Gaps from the Texas Education Agency
• Ensure individual student growth plans are created to ensure that all scholars can showindividual academic growth
• Focus on providing individualized and differentiated instruction to Emergent Bilingual andSpecial Education scholars
• Build knowledge and expertise in effective instructional design and academic standards for staffand self
• Develop teachers’ conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and what instructional methods drive student mastery 
• Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment
• Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high-quality instruction usingTeach Like a ChampionandGet Better Fasterframework
• Lead analysis of, and develop teachers’ ability to analyze student data to identify strategies thatwill move students toward mastery
• Regularly observe and coach instructional leaders to ensure they are providing high-impact,actionable, and bite-sized feedback to teachers weekly
• Ensure teachers can collaborate, analyze their practice and their student data, and adjustinstruction in content teams
• Lead whole-school professional development workshops that drive the highest-impactimprovements in teacher practice
• Evaluate lesson plans to provide teachers with the necessary feedback to be able to provide scholars with quality instruction 
• Conduct Ongoing Data Conversations 
• Make School-level Data-Driven Decisions 
• Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Schools

School LeadershipResponsibilities: 

• 90% Student Re-Enrollment
• 85% Teacher Retention
• 97.5% Average Daily Attendance for students
• Hold high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals?Lead instructional staff to achieve measurable and ambitious results
• Lead instructional staff to improve their teaching quickly and measurably through dailyobservations, on-the-spot coaching, data conversations, and effective evaluations?Supervise the implementation of TEKS based Ignite Community Schools curricula andassessments to meet ambitious academic expectations
• Review teachers’ weekly lesson plans and provide feedback
• Synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies that achievequantifiable goals
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve and consistently reflect on past actions to guidefuture decisions
• Communicate students’ progress with student and family
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based ontrust, understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify.
• Effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a communication and educational tool toimprove teacher development, student achievement and manage work related tasks.?Support the creation and implementation of a clear and consistent behavior managementsystem while developing students’ character and sense of community
• Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learningenvironment for each student
• Manage disciplinary student behavior
• Oversee campus based tutoring sessions
• Participate in weekly manager check-ins, grade-level meetings, before and after-school duties,and school wide meetings and functions
• Engage in summer and year-long district, school and personal learning and development?Minimum of 40+ hours spent at school per week
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by Campus Director

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:?Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change

• Ability to set the direction for a team and motivate others to action
• Demonstrated student achievement results in own classroom and from teachers that s/hemanages
• Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity ofbackgrounds and perspectives
• Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across school-wide data?Expertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state assessments require ofstudents’ knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student masteryrequirements into instructional plans and strategies; deep understanding of appropriateapplication and differentiation of high-leverage instructional strategies based on comprehensionof child/adolescent development and pedagogy.
• Expertise in cultivating relationships and managing a diverse group of stakeholders?Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing to learn and improve quickly?Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity andchange
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of theorganization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships to achieve outcomes?Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to a high level of conduct,professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Qualifications 

• Education: Master’s degree
• Texas Principal Certification strongly preferred
• Proficient in Skyward strongly preferred
• Experience with TalentEd desired
• Experience: Must have a proven track record of personally achieving success and leading others?3+ years of K – 12 teaching experience
• 3+ years of leading a school to dramatic gains in a challenging context
• Demonstrated leadership with the ability to lead people and get results through work withothers.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks with a willingness to be flexible when needed.?Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong prioritization, organization,and follow-up skills.
• Proficient in MS Office products, internet, and industry-specific software programs?Experience using data analysis to facilitate and support decision making
• Demonstration of effective teaching and learning practices
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal, human relations, and stress and conflict management skills?Excellent planning, goal setting, coordinating, problem analysis, and decision-making skills?Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation
• Enthusiasm to engage parents and community