Founded in 2023, Mass Learning Project is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives that is working with the 330+ Massachusetts schools implementing Project Lead The Way (PLTW) programs to ensure that teachers and school leaders have the support they need to deliver classroom experiences of exceptional quality. Mass Learning Project aspires to make PLTW teachers the best supported teachers in the state with the hunger and opportunity to continuously improve the applied learning experiences they offer to students. Mass Learning Project offers robust supports to schools and educators, including grant funding in partnership with the One8 Foundation, implementation guidance, professional learning opportunities, and on-the-ground support.
ABOUT THE POSITION:
The Educator Community Director for Mass Learning Project will be responsible for leading the team that works directly with schools implementing Project Lead The Way (PLTW) programs to provide the support needed to deliver classroom experiences of exceptional quality. The Educator Community Director will play a key role in helping execute this objective by building and managing the Educator Community team. This role will be based in a home office, with frequent travel to schools and for key events and meetings. They will report to the Executive Director of Mass Learning Project.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Building and managing MLP’s Educator Community team:
- Collaborating with the Executive Director and Educator Community team to create and build a school support framework: guardrails, conditions, and criteria to target different levels of support depending on need and context. Test and iterate on framework design and approach needed to deliver exception school support.
- Developing systems to target appropriate support resources to schools driven by the level and nature of their needs.
- Managing the school support team members, including weekly check-ins and team visits to schools to calibrate the school support framework.
- Creating a yearlong scope of structured meetings and touchpoints for the educator community team to use with schools for high-quality program implementation.
Providing school-based support:
- Establishing and maintaining school relationships to support implementation and inform community programming design.
- Visiting schools ~3 days per week throughout the academic year to understand common strengths and challenges experienced by PLTW teachers to identify areas for priority focus.
- Interacting with school and district leaders continuously to understand their thoughts on the areas of greatest potential for augmented teacher support.
- Monitoring trends and offering high-touch professional learning and consulting to a caseload of MA PLTW schools.
- Planning and delivering effective in-person and virtual consultative support to administrators and educators.
- Monitoring data regularly to prioritize and plan for proactive outreach to partners not on target for meeting grant objectives.
- Connecting teachers and school leaders across the network to collaborate and learn from each other.
- Identifying, designing, and disseminating resources and best practices to schools.
- Collaborating with Professional Learning Lead to identify opportunities to strengthen the ecosystem of teacher supports available for PLTW teachers and design new programming.
- Playing a key role in the design and execution of new support opportunities.
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS: The Educator Community Lead must embody a high standard for excellence, rigor, passion, and commitment while working alongside teachers and school leaders to provide the support to drive their ongoing success. Qualified candidates will possess:
- A minimum of 10 years of K-12 teaching and/or leadership experience, including experience creating and executing systems and processes to deliver outcomes.
- Experience leading a team and/or directly managing adults.
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality professional development and coaching to adults.
- The ability to provide insight and support through classroom observations, identify key themes, and translate findings into specific next steps and opportunities for improvement.
- Strong creative problem-solving abilities to overcome perceived barriers at both interpersonal and organizational levels.
- Deep experience collaborating across organizational boundaries and with professionals from different backgrounds.
- The self-motivation, curiosity and creativity needed to work independently and thrive in a start-up organization with an all-hands mentality.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail.
LOCATION: Massachusetts
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Mass Learning Project is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives and offers a competitive benefits package along with a commitment to your individual growth and development. Target salary for this position is $115,000 to $130,000, commensurate with experience. Please send your resume and a short statement indicating your interest in this position to Christine.schepeler@masslearning.org
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