Reports to: Executive Director of Humanities

Founded in 1647, Boston Public Schools (BPS) is the oldest public school district in the country. With approximately 57,000 students from over 114 different countries, nearly 9,000 employees (including 4,800 teachers) and an annual budget of $1.1 billion, BPS is the largest school district in Massachusetts and one of the most diverse as well.

Terms: BASAS 9A

OBJECTIVE:
Boston Public Schoolsseeks within The Office of Teaching and Learning the ability to ensure that all educators have access to the knowledge, skills, and resources that they need to provide high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) to every BPS student with a high-quality, culturally, and linguistically sustaining, and well-rounded education that prepares every student to actively and responsibly read, write, reason, communicate, create, and compute effectively within a global society.

The ELA Program Director resides in the Office of Teaching and Learning within the Boston Public Schools, reporting to the Executive Director of Humanities. The ELA Program Director is responsible for providing world-class, practice-changing professional learning to schools. This is done by providing curricular guidance through pacing, training, coaching, and modeling while collaborating with regional teams consisting of the regional superintendents, core academics, coaches, liaisons, and school leadership to advance equity within the Boston Public Schools. The Program Director is a crucial member of the ELA department who promotes the mission of ELA sustaining and inclusionary practices. This is done while serving within the BPS regional deployments. The ELA Program Director will work closely with all departments for the successful implementation of equitable literacy throughout and beyond the ELA elementary classroom.

The position will have a particular emphasis on problem-solving for and providing district-wide, regional/school-specific responses. The Program Director is expected to have expertise in the content of high-quality instructional materials ( HQIM ) that directly impact our 3-6 elementary grade band of Boston Public Schools consisting of and not limited to EL Education Curriculum 2.0, StudySync Curriculum, and Wilson: Fundations level 3 foundational literacy. Candidates should possess an in-depth knowledge of the English Language Arts and Literacy Framework, the BPS Equitable Literacy framework, and the Essential English Language Arts Teaching Practices. Candidates should be prepared to collaborate meaningfully with colleagues in central office departments, school and regional administrators, teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, families, and outside partners to strengthen ELA teaching and learning for all students in all schools. This role will focus on ensuring all students receive access to a meaningful English Language Arts curriculum to build strong reading and writing identities and graduate from high school well-prepared for college, career, and life.