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DEAN OF INSTRUCTION

Employer
Denver Public Schools
Location
Denver, CO, US
Salary
Competitive

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Job Category
Administrator, Principal
MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Southwest

Traditional 215 work days

FTE: 1.0

Essential Functions and Objectives:

The Dean of Instruction works closely with principals, teachers, coaches, and department heads, to implement a targeted approach to job-embedded professional development to meet the needs of second language learners. This targeted approach, in collaboration with the District ELL Support Model lead, builds on the strengths and support growth in challenge areas for all instructional staff in order to support dramatic and accelerated improvements in student achievement.

The Dean of Instruction will work closely with the principal and team leads, if present, as a part of the school's Instructional Leadership Team. The Dean of Instruction will support the implementation of a targeted approach to job-embedded professional development to meet the needs all learners. The dean will build on the strengths and support growth in challenge areas for all instructional staff in order to support dramatic and accelerated improvements in student achievement. The Dean of Instruction may accomplish this by coaching and supporting teacher leaders in the building (team leads, team specialists, team facilitators and the new teacher ambassador) as the teacher leaders work to support teachers through both coaching and facilitating collaborative planning and data teams, while also working with individual teachers directly to improve their instruction. The dean will supervise a team of teachers and/or team leads. The dean works to develop the capacity of promising teacher leaders who may be interested in applying for a team lead role, to work with the ILT to build the structures to support expansion and strong implementation of teacher leadership. Site Assessment Leader for testing. Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year educational institution. Master's degree preferred.

Knowledge, Experience, & Other Qualifications:

- A minimum of three (3) years' successful teaching experience, preferably in an urban school district.

- Successful experience working with low performing schools and/or districts including schools with a high number of ELL students.

- Successful experience in working with adults in a coaching situation; experience with the data team process.

- Current Teacher, Principal or Administrator licensure preferred.

- Strong instructional expertise

- Strong experience working in English Language Learners preferred

Education Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Education or related field.

- Advanced degree preferred.

About Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Tom Boasberg and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org .

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

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