Director of Academic Alignment & Growth, Larchmont Charter School at Larchmont Charter School
Job Summary
Job Summary
Primary Function: The DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC ALIGNMENT & GROWTH will support Larchmont in achieving its strategic planning goals to more deeply align, sustain and grow its impact and its WASC goals of strengthening support for struggling students through stronger alignment and growing our staff capacity. See the job description for the full list of responsibilities.
Requirements / Qualifications
Requirements / Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree, MA in Education preferred • TB Test clearance & DOJ fingerprinting clearance • Prior experience teaching across levels. • Prior school leadership/administration experience. • Experience coaching, mentoring and professionally developing teachers and teaching teams and successfully implementing instructional reforms, academic intervention, and curricular changes • Familiarity with the Common Core State Standards across grade levels and content areas. • Experience building community from attracting and recruiting families and staff to building a strong, inclusive, collaborative school culture that is student-centered, aligned, and inspires and sets a high standard of performance. • Expertise in progressive education and the constructivist approach (personalized to students’ zone of proximal development, hands-on, experiential, cooperative, inquiry, and project-based learning, etc.) • Facility and experience networking and building external partnerships to support recruitment of top education talent, research on cutting-edge curriculum and instruction, and opportunities to further grow Larchmont’s impact including the provision of professional development and consulting services, program expansion, and more. • An enthusiasm and passion for Larchmont’s mission and model and specifically constructivism, diversity, and community.
How to Apply: Please note that this opportunity is only open to current Larchmont employees. Submit the following to lcsjobs@larchmontcharter.org with subject line: DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC ALIGNMENT & GROWTH. • Must include Résumé clearly stating: all degree(s) earned, applicable professional development certifications earned, and each position held with dates of employment, employer, and responsibilities (for each position, list number of years in a full-time capacity); • Must include a copy of valid CA credentials. • Must include a statement of your educational philosophy and your experience with diversity. Include your interpretation of the Constructivist learning theory and how you have successfully applied it to learning and instruction in your areas of experience and expertise. Please also share what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you and your experience working with a diverse community. • May include letters of recommendation and unofficial transcripts. If we would like to learn more about you, you will be contacted via e-mail to submit an application for the position. Please do not call; all inquiries should be submitted via e-mail. The position will be open until filled.
Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree, MA in Education preferred • TB Test clearance & DOJ fingerprinting clearance • Prior experience teaching across levels. • Prior school leadership/administration experience. • Experience coaching, mentoring and professionally developing teachers and teaching teams and successfully implementing instructional reforms, academic intervention, and curricular changes • Familiarity with the Common Core State Standards across grade levels and content areas. • Experience building community from attracting and recruiting families and staff to building a strong, inclusive, collaborative school culture that is student-centered, aligned, and inspires and sets a high standard of performance. • Expertise in progressive education and the constructivist approach (personalized to students’ zone of proximal development, hands-on, experiential, cooperative, inquiry, and project-based learning, etc.) • Facility and experience networking and building external partnerships to support recruitment of top education talent, research on cutting-edge curriculum and instruction, and opportunities to further grow Larchmont’s impact including the provision of professional development and consulting services, program expansion, and more. • An enthusiasm and passion for Larchmont’s mission and model and specifically constructivism, diversity, and community.
How to Apply: Please note that this opportunity is only open to current Larchmont employees. Submit the following to lcsjobs@larchmontcharter.org with subject line: DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC ALIGNMENT & GROWTH. • Must include Résumé clearly stating: all degree(s) earned, applicable professional development certifications earned, and each position held with dates of employment, employer, and responsibilities (for each position, list number of years in a full-time capacity); • Must include a copy of valid CA credentials. • Must include a statement of your educational philosophy and your experience with diversity. Include your interpretation of the Constructivist learning theory and how you have successfully applied it to learning and instruction in your areas of experience and expertise. Please also share what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you and your experience working with a diverse community. • May include letters of recommendation and unofficial transcripts. If we would like to learn more about you, you will be contacted via e-mail to submit an application for the position. Please do not call; all inquiries should be submitted via e-mail. The position will be open until filled.
Comments and Other Information
Larchmont is a constructivist school. Constructivism is a theory of learning which holds that each of us has a unique schema of the world based on our lived experience and that by interacting with our environment we make connections to what we already know and construct new meaning. It is therefore essential that we know our students well to be able to meet them where they are and grow from there. We do this through small class sizes, looping, longer periods of instruction, and a focus on social-emotional development and community K-12.
Learning is seen as an active process. Diversity is core to our model because it is through ensuring a richly diverse environment – of both people and programming – that we create the setting for learning to occur. The diversity of our community provides students the opportunities to interact and benefit from students and staff from disparate backgrounds often resulting in a variety of perspectives leading to diversity of thought and increasing critical and creative thinking. The diversity in the program – both the interdisciplinary project-based learning and the rich array of enrichment and elective offerings – music, art, movement, cooking, gardening, improvisation, and more K-12 – tap into our students’ multiple intelligences and facilitate them making connections across the curriculum. This is the power of our model.
This Diverse by Design video highlights the power of integration and how Larchmont is part of a national movement to realize the vision and promise of Brown v. Board of Education. It was made possible through a generous benefactor and professional filmmaker in our community.
Copy and paste this link to your browser to learn more about LCS: https://youtu.be/NrSKSbkju2c
Comments and Other Information
Larchmont is a constructivist school. Constructivism is a theory of learning which holds that each of us has a unique schema of the world based on our lived experience and that by interacting with our environment we make connections to what we already know and construct new meaning. It is therefore essential that we know our students well to be able to meet them where they are and grow from there. We do this through small class sizes, looping, longer periods of instruction, and a focus on social-emotional development and community K-12.
Learning is seen as an active process. Diversity is core to our model because it is through ensuring a richly diverse environment – of both people and programming – that we create the setting for learning to occur. The diversity of our community provides students the opportunities to interact and benefit from students and staff from disparate backgrounds often resulting in a variety of perspectives leading to diversity of thought and increasing critical and creative thinking. The diversity in the program – both the interdisciplinary project-based learning and the rich array of enrichment and elective offerings – music, art, movement, cooking, gardening, improvisation, and more K-12 – tap into our students’ multiple intelligences and facilitate them making connections across the curriculum. This is the power of our model.
This Diverse by Design video highlights the power of integration and how Larchmont is part of a national movement to realize the vision and promise of Brown v. Board of Education. It was made possible through a generous benefactor and professional filmmaker in our community.
Copy and paste this link to your browser to learn more about LCS: https://youtu.be/NrSKSbkju2c