Description

JOB TITLE: Curriculum Supervisor, K-12 ELA & Social Studies

LOCATION: Central Office Staff

SALARY: Salary is negotiable, commensurate based on experience and credentials

WORK DAYS: 12 Month Employee 

REPORT TO: Director, Teaching & Learning

The students of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans need your talent, expertise, passion and leadership.

We are seeking highly motivated and innovative practitioners to join our team at LFNO. We seek individuals who are radically relentless about re-envisioning the landscape of public education in Louisiana and making a significant difference in the lives of students, parents, school leaders, teachers, and central office employees.

Currently the LFNO serves approximately 1,000 students from the Greater New Orleans Region with international teachers from around the world. As part of the state’s comprehensive transformation effort, the LFNO seeks to become the premier French-American public school with a commitment to revitalizing Louisiana’s French cultural heritage by empowering our stakeholders to be curious, creative thinkers and global citizens committed to our community’s future. Over time, the LFNO intends to develop the highest- performing, competitively compensated, and most revered educator workforce in the state known for providing instructional excellence and producing significant outcomes for ALL students.

LFNO is seeking proven instructional leaders with outstanding interpersonal skills who have a passion for working with schools, principals, and communities and who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment, and vision.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The K-12 ELA and Social Sciences Curriculum Coordinator is responsible for providing curriculum and instructional leadership across the following K-12 subject areas: literacy, reading, language arts, and the social sciences. Position objectives include creating, studying, evaluating, and implementing research based and Louisiana CCRS aligned curriculum and instruction materials and resources; providing leadership in the development, articulation, and implementation of the K- 12 literacy, reading, language arts, and social sciences instructional program; improving the instructional program by assisting with the implementation of high yield. Instructional strategies and program evaluation; and assisting in the coordination and facilitation of relevant staff development and professional learning with a variety of personnel across the system (i.e. district personnel, school leaders and teachers).

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creates, designs and oversees the district’s curriculum in the assigned areas to tightly align classroom and district assessment practices with LEAP and ACT assessments. 
• Develop strong systems to effectively manage curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices to significantly increase student achievement.
• Build the capacity of campus instructional leadership teams to improve the instructional programming and teacher development on their campus.
• Align high yield and research based instructional strategies with curriculum and provide training along with coaching to ensure effective implementation.
• Actively contribute to the development of a positive school culture centered around student achievement and high expectations.
• Ensuring teachers have an understanding of high quality and aligned expectations for high quality student work and meeting posting requirements.
• Training staff on establishing high quality and print rich learning environments that support student learning.
• Serves as a resource person in curriculum and instruction across assigned subject areas and grade spans with the ability to flex up or down as needed.
• Provides leadership to assure correlation between district curriculum and state/national standards.
• Develops, coordinates, and monitors the program of instruction for academic programs and oversees updates of the curriculum.
• Provides input for the Teaching and Learning budget.
• Previews new instructional materials and arranges for piloting by teachers.
• Studies and evaluates new instructional techniques for possible use by classroom teachers.
• Assists in the evaluation of academic programs, grading and assessment, and their effect on student achievement by ensuring engage in data driven instructional practices and implement class data walls along with school data rooms.
• Leads and coordinates professional learning/development based on LFNO’s customized, LDOE approved Teacher and Leader Rubrics.
• Assists teaching staff and campus instructional leaders with the implementation of curriculum and instructional materials including instructional calendars, reteach plans, tiered intervention support, etc…
• Develops and implements follow-up plans for curriculum revisions and instructional materials adoptions.
• Assists in the selection of high-quality K-12 instructional materials. 
• Stays current in the field through professional readings, seminars, workshops, and conventions.
• Coordinates projects with other curriculum coordinators, program support staff, and administrators with the instructional leaders. 
• Communicates and coordinates in partnership with community groups and organizations.
• Works with the campus academics team and/or building principals and teams to support the implementation and development of the district curriculum as needed or as assigned.
• Develop common assessments that are tightly aligned to Louisiana state learning standards and structured to support LEAP and ACT assessment design for all content areas.
• Supervise the SBLC process on campuses to ensure systemic functioning and compliance while providing ongoing training to counselors, principals, and social workers. 
• Development curriculum tools including but not limited to unit plans, scopes/sequence, data analyze and reteach plans.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a certification/license as a teacher in Louisiana or another state (i.e. Reading, Literacy, Social Sciences or a related area).
• Minimum of 3-5 years successful teaching experience.
• Experience with creating and facilitating professional development sessions required.
• High Ratings on recent COMPASS or other performance evaluation system
• Record of improving student outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in education (i.e. Reading, Literacy, Social Sciences or a related area) or a related field with graduate work in curriculum development, instruction, or assessment.
• Experience in curriculum development, curriculum mapping, and/or curriculum design.
• Teaching experience in both an elementary and secondary setting preferred. 
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Louisiana College and Career Readiness Standards and working knowledge of adult learning theory.
• Experience with the Science of Reading
• Excellent writing and public speaking skills.
• Outstanding organizational and planning abilities and strong ability to work effectively with individuals and groups.

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the superintendent may require

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at LFNO

Lycée is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community, both through our hiring practices and our focus on creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives, ideas, and identities are valued and integrated into our daily practices. LFNO staff represent a wide diversity of racial, cultural, socio-economic, gender, religious, and national identities--opening a window to the entire LFNO community on the richness of humanity. We welcome all applicants who share our mission and vision to join us in our consequential work.

Job descriptions are created to provide a framework of responsibilities and are not inclusive of all duties that may be required. LFNO employees embody an “all hands on deck” mentality and do whatever it takes to get the job done regardless of title or specific job responsibilities.