Regional Director of Schools

Description

Regional Director of Schools 
Academies of Math and Science
Location: Phoenix-metro area schools

Job Description: 

AMS Impact Group, CMO for Academies of Math and Science, a network of 10 K-8 charter schools in Arizona serving approximately 9000 scholars in all low-income, minority neighborhoods, is seeking a Regional Director of Schools (RDoS), a talented and dynamic instructional, culture, and operational leader to continue to elevate the network's success with improving educational outcomes for scholars that need it the most. The RDoS manages a region’s school principals to ensure every Academy of Math and Science (AMS) school is led by a high performing principal and school leadership team and each school succeeds according to AMS’s targeted key performance indicators aligned to Leverage Leadership’s 7 Levers.  

The mission of the Academies of Math and Science is to transform today's scholars into tomorrow's global visionaries. As Arizona's largest low-income K-8 charter school operator, since inception, we have specifically chosen to expand to underserved communities with the desire to create a program of choice for hardworking scholars and parents that hold a belief that education makes the difference in children's lives. For more information about our founding, see here: https://www.amsschools.org/apps/pages/our-story.  

 The ideal candidate:  

• Believes in the power of a strong model of instruction including common procedures and required curriculum, uniformity of delivery at the campus level, and regular coaching and management as a necessity in reaching towards ambitious goals.
• Believes that through intentional training and coaching, 100% of teachers can be trained to have well-run classrooms with 100% of scholars in each classroom having access to great teaching and curriculum. High teacher retention and ongoing coaching is key to every school’s success.  
• Believes in common behavior management procedures at the school level to allow campuses to focus on instruction and that culture is an area of school operation which can be coached and improved through implementing best practices and coaching school leadership.  
• Has a talent for identifying priorities, root causes, and remedying issues on campuses  
• Embodies great coaching, leadership, and pedagogical practices, and loves to model, provide feedback, and coach others.  
• Is a prolific learner constantly seeking out evidence-based practices to improve practices 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Managing and coaching of campus principals
• Oversee all areas of school operation through the school principal including:  
• 7 Levers of Leadership: data-driven instruction, instructional planning, observation and feedback, professional development, scholar and family culture, staff culture, and managing and developing school leadership teams  
• Operational excellence including: special Education, lunch program, student registration, placement, and attrition, employee retention 
• Ensure fidelity of implementation of AMS’s instructional program and supporting leaders to do so including practices developed by AMS, AMS curriculum, 7 Levers in Leverage Leadership, and real time-feedback, observation, and observation feedback (SND) practices from Get Better Faster. 
• Regularly analyze key performance indicator data and respond by adjusting coaching and strategic urgency. Responsibility for KPIs including staff culture (retention, surveys, observational), scholar achievement (measured using value-added growth functions), scholar culture (retention, attendance, surveys, observational), teacher development (measured through Whetstone teacher eval/coaching rubrics, PD surveys, observational), and leader development (measured through leader rubric). The network seeks to outperform 95% of nearby schools and schools with similar demographics.  
• Weekly monitoring of artifacts, key practices, and leading indicators across the 7 Leverage Leadership levers of impact such as teacher and student interviews, leadership team meetings, professional development on Wednesdays, real time feedback in the classroom, classroom observations and identification of action steps, observation-feedback meetings, one-on-ones, data and common planning meetings, etc. in order to: 
• Identify the right focus areas for school principal to work on through 7 Leverage Leadership’s 7 levers of impact including operational excellence 
• Identify the correct action steps for teachers based on classroom observations, data and common planning meetings, etc.  
• Coaching root causes with any gaps identified and norming with school leadership teams the ability to identify the right areas of focus and correct action steps within those areas  
• Visit each campus weekly to accomplish the above and meet with and ensure effective 1:1s with each principal assigned weekly. 
• Hiring of school principal, development of entire leadership team, and development of transition plan for school based on school leader’s future plans and performance. Modeling and ensuring principal on site practice distributed leadership. 
• Serve as first contact for parent communication to the AMS network office.  

Compensation and benefits:

• $90,000 - $120,000 annual salary, DOE. 
• Full benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement (with employer contributions), PTO, and disability and life insurance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher. 
• Superior track record as a principal (3 years) or regional director to outperform neighborhood schools (95th percentile as measured against schools with similar demographic compositions)  
• If candidate only has principal experience, candidate must be able to demonstrate a superior demonstrated track record of developing leaders as evidenced through their promotion. For example, assistant principals becoming principals, principals becoming regional directors, etc. 
• Track record of turn around underperforming campuses as measured by low scholar retention, low teacher retention, significant operational issues, and/or low achievement. 
• Mastery of pedagogical practices in TLAC, Get Better Faster, Leverage Leadership, and preferentially, has completed a formal course of study through Relay Graduate School, Building Excellent Schools, or another program that has a track record of excellence preparing educators to substantially increase achievement of scholars in low-income communities.  
• Has above average project management skills with an ability to take feedback from multiple sources (network, school leadership, and teachers), suggest strategic initiatives, and break down strategic initiatives into implementable projects. 

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Salary : $90,000 - $120,000