High School Dean of Instruction - Brooklyn, United States - Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

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Brooklyn, United States

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COVID-19 VACCINATION POLICY

To prioritize our school community's wellbeing, health, and safety, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School will require all staff members to have completed their full COVID19. In compliance with federal and state laws, we will be offering exemptions to employees who, for medical or strongly held religious reasons, cannot be vaccinated._

Teaching at Brooklyn Lab is unlike teaching in a traditional environment. Our teachers know the individual strengths and areas for growth of each of their scholars. By design, our schools are small communities where every scholar is known.

In addition to teaching their course, our faculty understands the value of collaboration.

They share best practices across the network, mentor young educators who serve as Small Group Instructions, get and implement feedback from coaches and their instructional lead and work as a team to provide their scholars with a high-quality education.

Our focus on the whole scholar and in building our school community has established Brooklyn Lab as one of the best schools in the country for academic growth - adding two and three years of academic growth on average for our scholars.

We invite you to be part of a transformation in education and to inspire a diverse group of scholars with a lifelong love of learning.

The Dean of Instruction at LAB will support delivery of innovative blended learning approaches, including enhancing the instructional, planning and classroom management skills of leaders across the school network.

This role will partner with school leadership and the curriculum team to provide instructional and administrative leadership to the teaching staff, oversee the implementation of the curriculum, coordinate assessments, and monitor students' academic performance.

The Dean will report to the Principal, serve scholars from grades 9-12, and will be a key member of the school leadership team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Dean will be responsible to:

Ensure the coherence of instructional practice and routines.
Facilitate intellectual prep and coplanning amongst gradelevel and intervention teams, previewing upcoming: material, articulating the nuance and/or key understandings / predictable misconceptions. This might include lesson planning or tweaking.
Ensure effective, rigorous instructional practice across all LAB classrooms, using professional development, instructional coaching, and educator communities of practice.
Be a champion of and cultivate crosscampus academic collaboration and knowledge sharing, building the LAB lesson plan and instructional resource library.
Support school leaders in planning and delivery of Summer Institutes and weekly professional development, including leading instructional content blocks.
Participate in evaluation of teacher effectiveness, promoting focus and constancy.
Review data and analytics to identify opportunities to improve instructional delivery, and address concerns with lesson plans, and pacing.

- building-out lesson plan banks, curating content for quality and rigor, and championing the adoption of effective content and practices.

Support the coordination of protocols and planning for all assessments, including Interim Assessments and mock state and Advanced Placement administration.
Work with the Student Services team to ensure coordination of academic services for students at risk of academic underperformance because of academic, mental health, or physical challenges.
Support the provision of coordinated professional development, support, and best practice adoption for schoolbased staff in special education, ELL instruction, and atrisk student services.
Support educators to be strategic, deliberate, and purposeful at supporting diverse and complex learners, including students at risk of academic failure, students with disabilities, and ELLs.
Observe instructional delivery and provide feedback to enhance and support the development of teachers' content expertise.
Build the ability of teachers to analyze student data in order to identify key gaps and misconceptions to help guide future planning and support.
Discuss student work to unpack the elements that make it collegeready or not, coordinate an instructional action step designed to close the identified gap of highest leverage.
Lead regular content or department meetings so that LAB teachers can reflect on success and challenges and plan improvements for successful lesson planning
Provide real time coaching, to help teachers get better faster by focusing on a specific practice, aiming to set the teacher up with the tools to employ the technique before the coach leaves.
Work with academic team and school directors to lead weekly halfday PD sessions designed to ensure a focus on a rigorous academic culture with common language and consistent expectations.
Analyze data in order to modify curriculum and forms of assessment to meet students' needs.
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