at University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, United States
Job Description
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Job No: 501864
Work Type: Staff
Location: Delaware/Hybrid
Categories: Full Time, Trainers & Educators
Pay Grade: 31E Context of job:
The School Success Center (SSC) is a professional learning, research translation, and policy center that aims to improve public education in the K-12 community. With centers located in Newark, DE and Georgetown, DE, SSC provides district administrators, school leaders, and teachers with high-quality professional development, coaching and advocacy for evidenced-based education practices and policies. The SSC supports a dedicated team of approximately 40 full-time and part-time education professionals and maintains several school and community partnerships in Delaware and increasingly across the country.
Under the limited direction of the Assistant Director the School Success Specialist is committed to working with and supporting educators in schools by designing and delivering high quality professional development, coaching teachers, and administrators, and influencing State policy related to standards, training and working conditions for teachers and school leaders. This position requires someone with significant knowledge of PK-12 educational leadership in low-performing urban and/or rural schools with diverse populations.
The position requires coaching and professional development, as well as experience working with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), writing School Improvement Plans, designing and implementing professional learning programs for education leaders, responding to Requests for Proposals from the Delaware Department of Education or other external funding source, and understanding performance evaluation systems for teachers and administrators. This person must be committed to growing and developing school leaders throughout the career continuum, preparing them to tackle the challenges of leading schools in the 21st-century. Major responsibilities:• Customize and provide Professional Learning to meet Local Education Agency needs.
• Provide coaching support to Local Education Agency that is cohesive across work groups and departments.
• Ensure brand integrity across docs, slides, etc.
• Market services of SSC via committee assignments, conference presentations, print materials, product production, and networking.
• Collaborate with grant writing working group.
• Serve on and implement SSC initiatives.
• Design, plan, prepare, deliver, and follow-up on face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual Professional Learning and coaching with as assigned. 100% contact load.
• Serve on hiring committees.
• Collect data. Qualifications:• Bachelor’s degree, advance degree preferred, and five years of relevant work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Four years’ experience teaching PK-16.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based practices for professional development.
• Deep knowledge of evidence-based practices in K-12 leadership, math, literacy, or Multi-tiered Systems of Support.
• Ability to provide professional development and technical guidance i
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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