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Executive Director: High School Instruction - Office of Post-Secondary Readiness (2019-20)

Employer
Oakland Unified School District
Location
Oakland, CA, US
Salary
$112,883.96 - $144,080.24 / Per Year
Ref: PCN4534

TITLE:

Executive Director, Instruction

REPORTS TO:

Network Superintendent

DEPARTMENT:

Office of Post Secondary Readiness

CLASSIFICATION:

Certificated Management Confidential

FLSA:

Exempt

WORK YEAR/HOURS:

227 days

ISSUED:

Created: August 2014

Revised: June 2016

SALARY GRADE:

CFAD 25

BASIC FUNCTION: Under the direction of an assigned Network Superintendent, the Executive Director of Instruction is responsible for providing leadership to assigned schools ensuring alignment with the District's goals and objectives. In partnership with local community-based organizations and city/county agencies (police, social services, health, juvenile justice), facilitate the optimum use of resources to enable the academic and social emotional success of all students. The Executive Director of Instruction ensures the use of effective instruction in every classroom for every student, every day; the development of safe and supportive schools; and the cultivation of student literacy necessary for success in college and career. The Executive Director of Instruction is responsible for understanding the needs of the students, families, and the community of the assigned schools and assisting the principal and Network Superintendent implementing the best strategies for meeting those needs.

Assist the Network Superintendent in supporting and leading efforts to turn around struggling schools and play a critical leadership role in transforming each school to a full-service community school model, supporting the District's transition to a full-service community District. Maintain confidentiality of all personnel matters; duties will involve access to confidential information concerning employer-employee relations.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge, or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to reflect the principal job elements accurately.)

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Organizational Vision: Coordinate the development of a shared vision of academic excellence and social success and sustain focus on student outcomes.

Collaborate in ensuring the network vision is aligned with community and District goals and outcomes, as related to academic and social success.

Collaborate with the Network Superintendent and network principals in developing a common vision for community development and academic achievement.

Assist in developing a scorecard with specific goals and measures that reflects the academic and the social emotional success outcomes.

Community Resource Management: Develop and coordinate activities associated with needs assessment, resource planning, and ongoing measurement of results. Lead activities in partnership with all community stakeholders, using best practices in family and community engagement.

Coordinate and attend neighborhood and community group meetings to understand the values, priorities, and needs of our families and residents in the neighborhoods surrounding our schools to provide support for ongoing academic and social emotional success.

Represent OUSD at public forums, including local school board meetings and citywide meetings on public education, public policy, youth development, and after-school education.

Respond to parents, guardians and community concerns in assigned schools.

Develop an understanding of each school's culture, needs and strengths through frequent visits and conversations with principals, teachers, staff, parents, students and volunteers.

Serve as an advocate for assigned schools in securing the resources and support that will help each school as needed; provide input on how resources should be applied to meet the needs of the network schools, students and families; develop funding proposals and other resource development strategies to enhance support and resources for assigned schools.

Meet with parents, civic and community groups to explain and interpret matters relating to the educational programs and operations of the District as needed.

Pathways Facilitation: Lead the analysis and programmatic response to ensure continuous support for students as they progress through their career as lifelong learners.

Collaborate with Network Superintendents, Deputy Network Superintendents and Teaching and Learning to analyze the transition from Pre-K to K, elementary to middle school, and middle school to high school. Ensure that the resources and support exists to ensure all students navigate the transitions successfully as part of a protected pathway throughout their District experience.

Integrate data from pathways-analysis into network plans.

Tiered Support System for Students:

Use the needs assessment to establish service offerings and the associated funding strategy to meet the various needs of at-risk students.

Institutionalize ongoing measurement to track students and risk categories to formulate responses and to integrate them into the overall system of measurement and ongoing improvement.

Collaborate with Research, Assessment and Data (RAD), site administrators and other staff to provide data on individual student progress to facilitate prevention and early intervention to reduce risk and promote student success.

Continuous Improvement and Ongoing Learning: Establish Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) protocols and professional development activities to institutionalize systems of rigorous accountability, ongoing measurement, and dynamic response to meet the challenges facing network schools to support students in their academic and social success.

Assist site leaders in focusing on instruction and professional learning of school site staff, build capacity of instructional staff to deliver a data-driven instructional cycle, implement curriculum and pedagogy aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and dramatically increase student learning outcomes.

Develop professional learning opportunities for site administrators to support transition to the Common Core and NGSS.

Coordinate the development and implementation of network meeting agreements, processes and values to promote trust, collaboration, support, risk-taking, active reflection and inquiry, and sharing of best practices. This could be in the form of well-structured professional learning communities.

Develop principal capacity to implement Results-Based Inquiry (RBI) cycles to establish site-based systems to collect and analyze data and make decisions with all stakeholders to support improvement in academic and social outcomes.

Increase principal capacity to lead and facilitate high-leverage learning opportunities for adult staff to focus on quality teaching and learning.

Collaborate with sites to implement professional development plans aligned with school/community/District goals based on student performance data and network scorecard targets.

Coach and support school principals in organizational management, staffing and other school management areas in order to facilitate increasing levels of student achievement.

Assist in instituting ongoing processes to measure progress based on network strategic plan and make necessary modifications.

Review and monitor the implementation of school improvement plans and performance assessment for each assigned school.

Instructional Program Management: Collaborate and coach network principals to manage instructional programs to enhance student achievement. Direct and coordinate all activities related to the District's instructional delivery system and instructional program management cycle.

Coordinate the overall activities of planning, developing, implementing and evaluating all District curriculum, instructional programs and instructional support programs.

Collaborate with principals and District staff in developing and implementing instructional programs to align with District goals, targets and strategic practices and projects.

Collaborate with principals and District staff in developing and implementing school-based intervention strategies and activities, including those beyond the regular school day and school year, to ensure effectiveness and alignment with goals and targets.

Collaborate with Teaching and Learning and RAD to ensure instruction and activities related to student learning are aligned with teacher, administrator and staff competencies.

Engage principals in collecting, observing and analyzing achievement data to surface questions, patterns, and/or gaps in the instructional program models at the school and regional network level.

Human Resources: Ensure optimal management and resourcing of network and school staff. Use evaluation to promote principals' performance.

Collaborate with Human Resources and principals in interviewing and recommending principal candidates by using the District's principal selection process; forward recommendations to Network Superintendent.

Interview and recommend candidates to fill other school-site certificated and classified positions as required.

Assist in developing, monitoring and supporting individualized growth plans for all principals, teachers and site-based classified staff in the network.

Ensure principals appropriately and effectively supervise and evaluate teachers and other staff. Coordinate appropriate training as needed.

Financial and Resource Management: Collaborate with Network Superintendent to ensure optimization and alignment of schools' resources and finances in accordance with site plan goals and objectives. Ensure schools' utilize material resources to ensure optimal learning environments.

Assist principals to make strategic and compliant use of resources, including time, funding, grants, staffing, and technical support.

Collaborate with principals in developing and implementing the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) to ensure compliant alignment of resources and strategic activities to achieve the climate/culture goals and targets.

Assist in monitoring site budgets, enrollment, consolidations, class size reduction, and functioning of school site councils to ensure strategic, viable and compliant management.

Identify and communicate new revenue and resource opportunities through external partnerships, federal and state grants that are aligned with school and District goals and strategic practices.

Ensure sites provide equitable access and service/program delivery in accordance with federal and state law.

Other Duties:

Collaborate with Teaching and Learning and various departments in the adoption high professional learning and compliant assessments.

Collaborate with the Network Superintendents, Deputy Network Superintendents and other District staff in the adoption, integrations, articulation and implementation of curriculum, including textbook adoption.

Exercise proactive leadership in promoting the vision and mission of the District.

Coordinate monthly staff and principal meetings, workshops and/or seminars; collaborate with Network Superintendents to plan quarterly all principal meetings.

Participate in conferences, workshops and seminars to remain current trend and changes in education.

Participate in District-wide administrative meetings, attend Board meetings and prepares and presents reports to the Board as required.

Perform related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The District determines whether a candidate is qualified based on fulfillment of prerequisites, relevant work experience, ability to perform the essential functions, reference checks, effective interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated by interview performance and/or writing samples, and achievement on performance-based assessments (if applicable) that demonstrate the candidate possesses the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities. Meeting prerequisites only satisfies the initial screening process and does not indicate the candidate is qualified to perform the essential functions of the position.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

Applicable sections of State Education Code and other applicable codes, laws, rules and regulations related to work scope

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) techniques and proficient data analysis skills such as data-based inquiry

Community and governmental institutions in the regional network

District resources and organization

Instructional programs, methods, and practices to accelerate student learning and achievement

California standards, curriculum frameworks and current research-based practices and trends

Adult learning principles and change-management theory

Effective professional development practices, including data-based inquiry

Formative and summative assessment instruments

Diversity, sensitivity and competence with regard to issues of race, learning or other ability, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, socio-economic group, sexuality or other orientations or cultural markers

ABILITY TO:

Enhance overall educational programs and services for all students by building capacity and consistency for effective change and sustainability

Increase capacity, accountability, and efficiency for improved effectiveness among administrative and professional personnel

Enhance communication, critical thinking skills, and collaboration among administrative and professional personnel

Promote team-building and shared responsibilities among administrative and professional personnel

Develop effective and actionable plans that integrate a complex set of analysis and resource decisions

Apply efficient management skills; identify and develop leaders to effectively manage performance; provide direction and delegate major pieces of work

Apply a systems approach to problem solving

Attract external funding to support a well thought-out plan

Develop effective working partnerships across all sectors of stakeholders in the community and local government

Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships among diverse groups of students, parents, District staff, and the community

Support, monitor and evaluate instructional program effectiveness

Use data to develop and analyze action plans

Implement collaborative and team-building processes

Plan, implement and monitor high-leverage professional development

Facilitate dissent and conduct difficult and constructive conversations

Provide timely and actionable feedback

Manage and prioritize time effectively

Provoke, inspire and motivate people to make progress toward goals

Read, interpret, apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures

Demonstrate excellent and effective written and spoken communication skills in English, including content, context, communication, conciseness, grammar and usage

Work effectively across diverse communities

PREREQUISITES

Master's degree

Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in educational administration, including experience as a school principal

Demonstrated knowledge and application of effective elementary education principles, practices and trends

Valid California Administrative Services Credential

Valid California Teaching Credential

Valid California Driver's License, if applicable

PRE-EMPLOYMENT PROCESS:

Employment eligibility will include fingerprints, tuberculosis and/or other employment clearance

WORKING CONDITIONS

ENVIRONMENT:

Office environment; school sites; driving a vehicle to conduct work; making student home visits; fast-paced work; constant interruptions; potential contact with blood borne pathogens and communicable diseases; and potential violence from unstable individuals.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Consistent mental alertness; standing, walking, or sitting for extended periods of time; mobility to conduct work at school sites and other District facilities; lift/restrain/reposition/carry individuals to ensure safety; lift, carry, push, and pull moderate weight objects; bending and twisting at waist and neck; kneeling and bending at the waist, reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally; dexterity of fingers and both arms and hands while performing duties, seeing to read, write, and use a computer; hearing and speaking to exchange information in person or on the telephone and make presentations.

OTHER PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Respond to emergency/life-saving situations which could require rapid response that would necessitate running.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY:

The Oakland Unified School District does not discriminate in any program, activity, or in employment on the basis of actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, gender, sex, or sexual orientation.



Primary Location: Office of Linked Learning
Salary Range: $112,883.96 - $144,080.24 / Per Year
Shift Type: Full-Time

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