Director of Instructional Support for the Greater San Francisco Bay Area at Instruction Partners
Job Summary
Job Summary
Our Directors of Instructional Support are our instructional leaders on the ground with our partners. As a Director of Instructional Support, you’ll lead the effort to improve instruction in partnership with schools and systems throughout the country. You will manage a team of content experts to support the work in a subject-specific way and support a network of schools and systems to improve instruction for students. In this role, you will be on our Partnerships Team, which supports schools and districts throughout Northern California. You will report to the Managing Director of Instructional Support.
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Our Directors of Instructional Support are our instructional leaders on the ground with our partners. As a Director of Instructional Support, you’ll lead the effort to improve instruction in partnership with schools and systems throughout the country. You will manage a team of content experts to support the work in a subject-specific way and support a network of schools and systems to improve instruction for students. In this role, you will be on our Partnerships Team, which supports schools and districts throughout Northern California. You will report to the Managing Director of Instructional Support. Specifically, you will:
System Support
•Support a portfolio of schools and systems to improve instruction in core academic subjects and support student growth
•Lead system instructional reviews to diagnose needs and work closely with partners to develop actions plans in line with their values and resources to support instructional improvement
•Build relationships with school and system leaders to support implementation of action plans and adjust course where needed
•Serve as the primary point of contact for partners and their questions; Connect partners to resources, information and research from within the network and across the sector to help schools and systems solve targeted instructional challenges
Management
•Manage a team to provide content-specific support to partners
•Manage partner contracts and deliverables to achieve school-level goals based on instruction and student achievement
Training
•Plan cross-system support opportunities targeting common instructional challenges across the partner network, including:
•Planning and facilitating classroom visits and meetings for instructional leaders
•Researching and writing case studies of particular examples of instructional improvement
•Identify common instructional challenges across systems and propose, design and execute new services to target common challenges
•Facilitate adult learning experiences for school and system leaders both within and across systems
Requirements / Qualifications
8+ years of educational experience and 3+ years of system-level leadership or school leadership (principal equivalent) experience (not coach or AP)
Requirements / Qualifications
8+ years of educational experience and 3+ years of system-level leadership or school leadership (principal equivalent) experience (not coach or AP)