Specialist, Dcps Persists - Washington, United States - District of Columbia Public Schools

District of Columbia Public Schools

Verified Company

Washington, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Position Overview

The Office of Social Emotional Academic Development works with the Chancellor to ensure coherence in the educational experience for our students, families, and schools.

Our goal is to initiate change and lead DC Public Schools into the highest performing school district in the nation.

We are currently in the process of creating our next strategic plan.

After engaging with over 3,000 internal and external stakeholders to help shape the future of DCPS, our draft strategic priorities include:

Promote Equity: Define, understand, and promote equity to close achievement gaps and interrupt institutional bias.
Empower Our People: Recruit, develop, and retain a talented, caring, and diverse team.
Educate the

Whole Child:
Provide rigorous, joyful, and inclusive academic and social emotional experiences for all students.

Ensure Excellent Schools: Increase the number of high quality schools across the district by defining blended autonomies for schools and creating opportunities for innovation.
Engage Families: Deepen partnerships with families and community.

Divisions/Teams:

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Core Team: works to improve the organizational effectiveness and work to ensure daily operations are managed efficiently across all SEAD offices and divisions. The SEAD Core Team advocates for SEAD DCPS Programs by shepherding cross-team collaboration with procurement, budget, and staffing teams. SEAD Core Team provides oversight to ensure equitable, transparent, and compliant hiring and spending practices through quality customer service.
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Strategic School Planning: works closely with principals, Central Office staff, and community members to ensure schools plan appropriately to meet the needs of their students and the District. The Strategic School Planning division is made up of the Strategic Enrollment Initiatives and School Planning teams. These teams lead DCPS efforts related to the planning and design of the District's portfolio of schools.

Division of Leadership Development
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Wallace and School Leader Recruitment, Selection:this division will shape the vision for the Wallace Grant initiative and develop and implement comprehensive, aligned principal pipelines reflective of the 7 critical domains articulated by Wallace that produce equity-centered leaders who can help bring a district's vision of equity to fruition. They drive the District's goals related to recruiting, selecting, and developing the best school leaders for DC Public Schools.
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Leadership Development: develops and executes instructional leadership programs and initiatives aimed at enabling school leaders to provide outstanding instruction to every student, every day in schools. This team works to build the leadership capacity of school leaders with a particular focus on instruction, data analysis, intervention, and developing capacity within the school. This team also triangulates qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate the effectiveness of leadership initiatives and to ensure alignment to leaders' developmental needs.

Division of SEAD Strategy
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Athletics: The Department of Athletics ensures all DCPS students have access to comprehensive and inclusive interscholastic athletics programming designed to increase student satisfaction, improve physical fitness, keep students engaged in school, develop leadership qualities, and provide additional outlets for students to express their unique talents.
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Career and Technical Education: Career Education programs provide the academic, technical, and employability skills necessary to succeed in college, careers and to become lifelong learners.
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College Preparedness and Persistence: College Preparedness and Persistence includes programming that prepares students for college, including Dual Enrollment, SAT in school day, Test Prep, and the DCPS Persists initiative which enables DCPS to support students through their college graduation and invest in additional efforts to effectively prepare students to succeed in college.
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Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC): JROTC utilizes programming in our Army and Navy academies to motivate young people to become better citizens by teaching them leadership skills that they can use in any career field.
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Ninth Grade Academies: Ninth Grade Academies in DCPS provide rich, responsive, and well-rounded educational experiences for students transitioning from eighth grade to succeed in ninth grade and beyond.
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School Academic Scheduling and Support: School Academic Scheduling and Support (SASS) is responsible for supporting and monitoring DCPS schools in four areas: scheduling, grading, graduation, and the development and distribution of accurate academic records.
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Student Engagement: Student Engagement consists of programming designed to keep students on track academically and connected to their school communities.

Acceleration Division
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