We seek to hire a Director, Teacher Development & Learning to lead regional efforts to ensure that the students in corps members’ classrooms are academically prepared for a life of choice and equity and that our corps members are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to become lifelong advocates for educational equity.
As a Director on our team, you will contribute to and advance our team’s work by setting a vision for the teacher development and learning in our region from incoming corps member onboarding to the conclusion the second year corps member experience. This work will include designing and leading learning experiences for corps members and our team (in partnership with the Director, Coaching and Culture and the Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development), and leading a team of part-time staff members executing the facilitation of our teacher-facing programming. This position is a part of the D.C. Region Talent Hub team and would serve on the Talent Hub Leadership Team (HubLT) to ensure a strong continuum of supports are provided to teachers from their onboarding to the region through alumnihood.
This position offers a unique opportunity if you excel in working with and leading diverse teams, have deep pedagogical knowledge and adult learning expertise, and have a record of achieving ambitious results.
You will report directly to the Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development.
Accelerate and Advance the Talent Hub Team’s Efforts Toward Transformational Change (40%)
- Design vision for teaching and learning that incorporates instructional development and best practices, emphasis on core mindsets/beliefs, diversity, equity, and inclusiveness principles, adult learning principles, and leveraging internal and external stakeholders as developmental supports. This vision will include clear actions and metrics for success within existing programmatic structures, including onboarding and incoming corps member retention, our partnership with Johns Hopkins University, second year Collaborative programming, and certification expectations and supports.
- Support the planning and execution of programmatic events including Corps Member Induction, Institute Visit, Start of School professional development, and Quarterly Sessions with the Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development.
- Have deep knowledge of your identity and how race, class, and privilege influence your values, mindsets and behaviors and the values, mindsets, and behaviors of those you lead, and support the emphasis of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness principles in the vision for teaching and learning.
- Work closely with the national Institute team, the Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development, and the Director, Coaching and Culture to ensure alignment of the corps member onboarding and Institute experiences to the intended skills, dispositions, and mindsets of the incoming corps based on the needs of our school partners and community stakeholders.
- Lead our partnership and certification work with Johns Hopkins University, including managing the design of our Seminar in Transformational Leadership and Teaching (STLT) syllabi, participating in bi-weekly calls with JHU leadership, and executing supports for corps members struggling in the program.
- Cultivate a keen awareness of trends and underlying causes in classrooms or in corps member mindsets through regular (at least 4x monthly) school visits and field time in corps member and alumni classrooms.
Develop a Successful Teaching and Learning Team (40%)
- Manage high quality implementation of learning vision through performance management, program evaluation and benchmarking.
- Lead and coach a team of part-time facilitators in executing the learning vision and adult learning best practices through clear onboarding, regular feedback, and semesterly stepbacks.
- Manage the Manager of Certification and Compliance to ensure that the Talent Hub team is meeting expectations for state accreditation and AmeriCorps compliance, and is supporting corps members towards successfully meeting licensure expectations by the end of their two year commitment.
- Identify and execute aligned professional development of Talent Hub team members that supports the regional learning vision, in partnership with the Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development and Director, Coaching and Culture.
- Empower and cultivate a strong orientation towards adult learning on the Talent Hub team and among part-time staff members in service of student and teacher outcome goals.
Fuel the Movement for Educational Equity (10%)
- In collaboration with the Talent Hub team, establish and maintain diverse school district and community partnerships that drive toward a common vision, goals, and values.
- Actively work to build authentic relationships with all stakeholders, and to realize our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness.
- Cultivate corps members and alumni in order to build strong talent pipeline for teaching and learning facilitation opportunities.
Regional Team Responsibilities (10%)
- Support, attend, and/or participate in regional team activities, including corps member selection and matriculation, corps member professional development events (4-5 per year in the evening), staff meetings, functional team meetings and retreats, and regional pre-service (one week in June)
- Experience as a Teach For America corps member and/or staff member preferred
- Experience working in the DC and/or Prince George’s County education landscape highly preferred
- A minimum of 5-7 years of work experience, including leading and managing teams to achieve ambitious outcomes in a school/education setting
- Teaching experience in K-12 setting required
Work Demands
- This Director may travel independently to multiple school sites throughout a day that may be significant distances from one another, and navigating school facilities that may or may not be ADA-compliant.
- This role requires attendance at evening professional development or regional events several times quarterly.
- Additionally, the Director, Teaching and Learning should expect 1-2 weeklong overnight trips for conferences each year.
To be successful in this role, you must:
- Believe in our core values and regional vision, mission, and goals, and commit to striving to embody these values and to achieve these outcomes
- Have demonstrated success coaching, developing, and improving adult performance, ideally in an instructional setting
- Have deep understanding of the key drivers of adult learning and motivation, ideally in the education sector
- Be adept at compiling and analyzing vast amounts of data to define opportunities and challenges, draw conclusions, and inform team management approach
- Be able to build and leverage relationships, especially across lines of difference, to reach ambitious goals
- Have strong planning and project management skills, with an eye for the ways details influence culture
- Have an understanding and deep belief in fostering culturally responsive educators
- Develop strong peer and managerial relationships such that you can contribute to our team’s ability to hire, engage, develop, and retain a diverse and highly effective staff
- In collaboration with Talent Hub team leadership, be able to establish ambitious / measurable goals and aligned strategy for the academic achievement of students, effective partnerships with districts and schools, and the instructional leadership development of corps members and staff members
- Constantly seek to reflect on progress, learn, and improve; quickly act on individual reflections, feedback, and new information