Teach For America Greater Tulsa is seeking a Director, Teacher Leadership Development (DTLD). You will lead a team that will inspire, coach, and support corps members to accelerate progress towards our vision. In particular, you will coach and develop your MTLDs (Manager, Teacher Leadership Development) to coach corps members to lead their students to academic excellence. You will lead through layers to build communities of corps members who are connected, uplifted, challenged, and supported by our collective network. You will support corps members and staff to process their experience in a way that enhances their learning, leadership, and commitment to educational excellence and equity. Because of exceeding traditional expectations in classrooms coupled with the network around them, corps members will expand their perspective, knowledge, and skills as educators, advocates, and systems leaders.
You will report to the Senior Managing Director, Teacher Leadership Development, and will sit on the Corps Member Leadership Team. The CM Leadership team will be comprised of several D, TLDs who are also leading teams of MTLDs and corps members. You must be able to collaborate with peers, compromise, and serve as a regional leader who will make decisions that impact students, corps members, alumni and staff in response to an ever-adjusting educational context.
Develop relationships and inspire committed and positive action towards accomplishing our collective vision (25%)
- Create a thriving and inclusive corps and staff culture grounded in our mission, core values, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness
- Ground your team in the region’s vision and goals, and enable them to plan and execute successfully toward them
- Serve as a regional leader to make sound decisions - both independently and in collaboration with others - that will impact students, corps members, alumni, and staff in response to changes in our landscape, trends, and unforeseen internal and external challenges
- Build relationships to find, promote, and capitalize on alignment between regional vision, school/district, and community resources
- Collaborate with national support teams and other regions to strengthen our capacity for supporting educators across our network and accelerating student gains in the classroom
Set Vision and Direction (30%)
- In collaboration with the CM Leadership team, set vision for the corps member experience and outcomes and determine strategies to support your corps members and MTLDs to achieve that vision
- Analyze strategies based on evidence, including real-time feedback from corps members and efficacy in the classroom, and add, adjust, delete, or test new strategies to timely drive progress and regional learning
- Design and execute individual and group learning experiences to ensure your corps members acquire critical knowledge, skills, and mindsets to increase their proficiency. Learning experiences will facilitate learning across a spectrum of topics, including but not limited to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, instructional and content-specific pedagogy, engaging with families, and leadership development.
- Build and maintain a database of staff and educator-facing content-related resources. Educator tools will include but are not limited to lesson plans, long-term plans, assessments, sessions, readings, and model videos.
Coach and Develop (35%)
- Cultivate, hire, coach, and develop an effective team
- Lead a team of managers of teacher leadership development (MTLDs) to take actions that result in significant and timely changes in classrooms, in path-changing outcomes for students, and in the leadership development and commitment of corps members
- Diagnose classrooms against a very high bar for content-specific outcomes, instruction, and teacher leadership through the use of observation and analysis of student outcomes data
- Monitor student achievement and other student outcomes, educator satisfaction and learning, and project completion for direct reports and add, delete, or adjust strategies to reach goals
- Cultivate good judgment in your team about trends and causes in student outcomes and in teacher leadership development and lead your team to take actions that result in significant improvement
- Coach and develop a team of MTLDs and part-time staff
Team responsibilities (10%)
- Drive discrete projects to support the Greater Tulsa region in reaching ambitious goals.
- Participate as a member of the regional Management Team & Corps Member Leadership Team
- Participate in all staff regional commitments (e.g., selection, matriculation, All Corps Conferences, team meetings)
- Teach For America corps member and/or staff member experience is preferred
- 5+ years of work experience required
- 2+ years of work experience leading and managing teams to achieve ambitious outcomes preferred
- Experience with adult learning design and/or teaching or coaching adult learners preferred
- Experience working at a TFA national or regional institute is preferred
- Must exemplify Teach For America’s core values
- Demonstrates professional maturity and sound judgment
- Ability to build relationships and create alignment with individuals with a range of perspectives
- Sophisticated ability to influence others (peers and/or corps members) to achieve outcomes; experience in lateral management preferred
- An understanding and deep belief in fostering culturally responsive educators
- Deep knowledge of content and pedagogy
- Ability to coach and develop others to measurable improvements in student achievement and/or teacher proficiency
- Ability to design high impact adult learning experiences that lead to change in the classroom
- Ability to track tasks, assess progress, and follow through on the execution of plans
- Deep understanding of race and class and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness
- Ability to analyze and use large amounts of data to inform and adjust strategy
- A belief in and experience developing meaningful relationships with students’ families that supports path-changing learning for their student
Work Demands:
- Ability to travel to in-person meetings in various U.S. cities [1-2 times/year]
- Ability to travel independently to multiple locations for work throughout Tulsa & Muskogee
- Evening work is required
- Occasional weekend work is required