Elementary Grades Director - Central Falls, United States - The Learning Community

Description

At the Learning Community, we believe that literacy empowers each individual to have a voice, assume community responsibility, and take social action.

We grow teacher leaders, student leaders, and community leaders. To accomplish this purpose, we seek a collaborative, skilled, instructional leader to serve as our Elementary School Director.

This role is a vital leadership role in the organization that works closely with the Head of School, Director team, and other leaders in the building to create the conditions for Elementary students to thrive and teachers to have the support they need to do their best work.

Day to Day Responsibilities This role is the first point of contact for Elementary teachers, staff, and families on internal policy and operational issues, discipline questions, and day-to-day problem-solving.

They manage the entire Elementary team, including teachers and the Elementary logistics role.

Areas of responsibility include, but arent limited to:

Creating a culture of feedback, learning, and improvement within the Elementary team in partnership with teachers, the social-emotional team, and instructional coaches.

Building strong relationships, trust, and collaboration within the Elementary team and across teams with other departments and staff that collaborate to serve Elementary students.

Building and keeping parent engagement and trust through clear, honest, and accurate communication, positive phone calls, updates about student progress and behavior, planning and facilitating opportunities to engage with teachers and the school, and being responsive to concerns.

Taking on, assisting with, or managing projects and goals that will impact student and teacher success in the Elementary like annual planning, open houses, parent-teacher conferences, Elementary grades components of school-wide events, and one-off projects as delegated by the Head of School.

Similarly, assisting with school-wide and Elementary-Grade responsibilities and events as needed (ranging from arrival/dismissal duties, an advisory period each day, and to whole-team planning meetings, professional development days, and the LC Summer Institute in August).

Ensuring high-quality, equitable instruction and capable teachers in all Elementary classrooms in partnership with instructional coaches and the Director of Curriculum and Instruction.

Ensuring data-driven instructional decisions and improvement in all coaching, feedback, and professional development work.

Building a culture of teacher leadership by creating the conditions for critical thinking, teacher input, innovation, and risk-taking to better serve students.

As the Elementary School Director, you hold the vision and reflect and celebrate collective progress toward the Elementary and school goals.

Your leadership actions help the team recognize momentum, progress toward goal attainment, acknowledge the struggle, and problem-solve to overcome challenges.

Driving strong collaboration across the team and strong implementation of school-wide goals and initiatives in the Elementary grades.

Responsible for two-way communication and management that produces smooth collaboration within the Elementary team and amongst the Elementary team, Middle-Grades team and other departments.

Strong emotional intelligence and communication skills - especially in conflict or for trickier decisions.

The Learning Community aspires to be a space where we are all self-aware and others aware, speak the truth directly to each other, fix mistakes quickly, and own and repair any harm if it happens - whether with leaders, team members, students, or families.

We aim to communicate in a way that builds trust, makes decisions and organizational changes clear, and builds with our community - not just for them.

Our Director of Curriculum is expected to have deep skills in these areas and is also expected to demonstrate a commitment to growing in their ability to work effectively with others across lines of difference and power.

Responding to requests from the Department of Education, ensuring school meets requirements as laid out by RIDE, filing of all mandated reports to RIDE for the Elementary Grades.

Minimum Qualifications To be considered for this position, applicants must have strong teaching experience in similar contexts to the Learning Community, must have experience leading and/or coaching teachers, and must be U.S.

citizens or residents or have work visas. Experience working with and implementing curriculum across a grade levels is highly preferred.


In addition, they must demonstrate:

Professionalism, keeping commitments, and follow-through: You deliver high-quality, thorough, work on time, every time, or communicate proactively with lead time if youll miss a commitment or need support.

You do what you promise when you promise it.

Building strong and productive relationships with our students, families, and team: You build trust with students, families, and staff and use that trust and those