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Manager of Field Lessons (19-20)

Employer
IDEA Public Schools
Location
Weslaco, TX, United States
Salary
Competitive

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Position at IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that all of our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 58% of our students graduate from college in 6 years - that's 8 times the national rate for students in our communities!

IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve nearly 45,000 students across Texas and Louisiana. By 2022, IDEA will serve 100,000 students. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with continued growth in our current regions and new launches in Tarrant County (Fort Worth/Arlington), New Orleans, Houston (2020), Permian Basin (2021), and Tampa Bay (2021)!

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

To learn more about IDEA, check out this video .

Role Mission: IDEA Public Schools is growing rapidly in its current regions in South Texas and future expansion sites. The Field Lessons Manager strengthens IDEA's ability to ensure 100% college admission, matriculation, and graduation by ensuring our students and alumni engage in meaningful field lessons. This person will set a new vision for IDEA field lessons, create an aligned set of content and curriculum tools, and partner with schools and external institutions to ensure excellent execution. The Manager of Field Lessons will also create a strategy to ensure the sustainability of the program into the future to ensure that all IDEA students engage in meaningful and transformative field lessons aligned to our mission of college completion and that IDEA alumni, staff, and partners are deeply invested in the program's success.

Accountabilities :

  • 100% of Field Lessons Utilize Aligned Student Curriculum for 10 pilot lessons
    • Create clear field lesson curriculum (pre-, during-, post-visit learning experiences) that align to key outcomes
    • Successfully cascade this curriculum to schools and manage to implementation
    • Engage internal and external stakeholders to ensure the strength of the curriculum tools (exceptionally aligned to mission, rigorous, and joyful/engaging for students and all participants)
    • Track the creation of each piece of curriculum & structure, then track of use of curriculum & efficacy of curriculum through student products and documentation of trips. % of curriculum complete, K-12, for each category. % of 10 field lesson team completing required documentation of the trip with their kids.


  • 100% of Field Lessons Have Defined Targets / Measures of Success and Reported Data
    • Define clear, measurable outcomes for field lessons or create systems for teachers/groups to define appropriate outcomes
    • Measure success of all field lessons that take place or create systems for teachers/groups to measure and report/document outcomes
    • Track interactions with Field Lesson Point Person, example, % who complete updates to their field lesson calendar , as required. And % of schools that have already completed their field lessons for the year. And overall % of student who got to go on a field lesson with attendance #s by grade level. Also, track a few trip components


  • 100% of Field Lesson teams have resources to successfully plan and execute field lessons
    • Create a suite of materials for planning exemplar field lessons including Generic Field Lesson GRPI/RASI (planning and project planning templates) , Generic Fundraiser GRPI/ RASI(s) with How-to documents
    • Train 10 teams to plan and execute high-quality, transformational field lessons.
    • Support non-pilot campuses by establishing a field lesson point person at every campus who owns the field lesson calendar & communicates resources to their campus
    • Track upload of field lesson resources to the HUB (IDEA's internal platform) & track interactions with field lesson point person who communicate resources to their campus. Percentage of field lesson point persons who respond to a survey on resources.


  • 75% of juniors attend a Collegiate Summer Away Program (CSAP)
    • 100% of juniors submit a practice college application and apply to a summer away program
    • Juniors and Families meet with campus leadership to go through the CSAP timeline
    • Tracking of acceptances, financial plans and travel for all juniors to attend CSAP
    • Development of RTTC (Road to and through) III teachers and counselors to align with CSAP goals
    • Collaborate with partner colleges and Tier 1 and 2 schools to ensure our top juniors are going to aligned CSAP experiences.
  • We look for Team and Family who embody the followingvaluesand characteristics:
    • Believes and is committed to our missionand being an agent of change: that all studentsare capable of gettingto and through college
    • Has demonstrated effectiveoutcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
    • Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improvequickly
    • Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
    • Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
    • Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
    • Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationshipsin order toachieve outcomes
    • We believe in education asa professionand hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.


    Supervisory Responsibilities
    • Coach Field Lesson leaders on campuses.


    Competencie s :
    • Setting vision and direction to ensure Field Lesson leads have the support, resources, structures and routines necessary to meet annual goals.
    • Building and implementing experiential based curriculum to build college knowledge and college going identity .
    • Designing and leading high-quality professional learning opportunities with Field Lesson leads and Road to and Through College instructors, such as through 1:1 coaching, weekly calls and virtual and in-person professional development.
    • Planning and executing high-quality programming to attain IDEA Field Lesson vision.


    Qualifications:
    Education: Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred

    Experience:
    • Teaching and school administrative experience (preferred)
    • Experience with IDEA Field Lessons (preferred)
    • Experience managing others to achieve goals
    • Proven track record of success
    • Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills


    Knowledge and Skills:
    • Knowledge of colleges across the United States and the college admissions process.
    • Knowledge of developmental skills of students 6-12 grade.
    • Planning and organizing skills
    • Interpersonal, relationship building skills.


    IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.

    Company

    IDEA Public Schools believes that each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States. IDEA currently serves nearly 66,000 college-bound students in 120 schools across Texas and Louisiana and is gearing up to open schools in Florida for the 2021-2022 school year.

    Interested in learning more about working at IDEA Public Schools? 

    Visit us at www.ideapublicschools.org/careers.

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    Telephone
    956-377-8000
    Location
    2115 W. Pike Blvd
    Weslaco
    TX
    78596
    US

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