Mathematics Instructional Leader

Essential Duties: Instructional and School Culture Leadership

• Uses classroom observation and teacher work product data to hold weekly teacher coaching meetings for all team members around instructional and classroom culture topics
• Coaches teachers around excellent pedagogical practices within the content area
• Coaches teachers to implement effective classroom culture techniques that result in a disciplined and consistent, warm and caring, joyful classroom culture
• Monitors teacher planning against content maps to ensure high-leverage content is taught in every classroom, every day
• Develops clear and systematic infrastructure for tracking student achievement data within the department at both the formative, summative, and standardized level
• Leads frequent data analysis meetings with teachers that result in effective reteaching and remediation plans that reach all students and raise student achievement
• Regularly audits teacher grade books and ensures interventions are in place for failing students
• In partnership with other leadership team members, plans and executes all standardized testing and quarterly assessments (ANet, EPAS, MAP, etc)
• Participates in any school-wide school culture initiatives (e.g., culture walks, hallway duty)
• Participates in instructional walks with school leadership team
• Evaluates and supervises teachers and/or any assigned support staff members
• Teaches up to two core content or A Disciplined Life classes each day
• Completes assigned heavyweight and lightweight duties
• Other duties as assigned by principal or assistant principal

Essential Duties: Professional Development

• Designs professional development that drives improvement in teacher growth and student performance
• Holds teachers accountable for implementation of professional development
• Develops opportunities for teachers to work together collaboratively during professional development

Essential Duties: Team Leadership

• Builds trusting and strong relationships with teachers that fuel teacher and student performance
• Inspires and motivates teams to meet both short-term and long-term goals
• Invests team in Joslin’s vision for instruction and school culture
• Invests team in Perspectives’ network-wide vision and improvement initiatives

Essential Duties: Operational Efficiency

• Procure and coordinates substitutes for team members when absent or leaving early
• Orders, maintains, inventories, and stores all department supplies
• Manages department budget within set parameters

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education, or related field from an accredited College or University
• Masters in educational leadership preferred
• Demonstrated, consistent, and quantifiable track record of exceptional student achievement as a reading, literature, or English teacher at the middle school or high school level
• Must be designated as a certified teacher by the Illinois State Board of Education
• Must be Highly Qualified according to Illinois State Board of Education

Core Competencies

• Perseverance in the face of challenges
• Demonstrates “do what it takes” attitude and grit in the pursuit of student achievement
• Solutions-oriented and takes initiative to independently solve problems
• Thrives on feedback and has a continuous improvement orientation
• Takes personal responsibility for student and staff performance outcomes
• Unwavering commitment to A Disciplined Life

Physical Demands

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Required to sit for long periods of time; occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop and kneel
• Specific vision abilities are required for this job, which include distant vision and the ability to adjust focus

Language Skills

• Ability to read and write proficiently using the English language
• Ability to interact and speak effectively in interpersonal situations and before groups of people