The WISD's Mission is to promote the continuous improvement of achievement for every student while providing high-quality service to our customers through leadership, innovation, and collaboration.

The WISD’s Vision is to be a leader in empowering, facilitating, and delivering a high-quality, boundary-spanning educational system that educates all children through an equitable, inclusive, and holistic approach.

SUMMARY:
Directs and promotes effective, research-based strategies, processes, and initiatives across various school sectors – general education, career and technical education, special education, administrative leadership, organizational design – to improve achievement of all students.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to equity, social justice, and inclusion in all practices and position responsibilities.
• Demonstrates the ability to examine how his/her/their position (directly or indirectly) impacts educational inequities in student achievement outcomes.
• Engages in reflection and ongoing learning and development on critical concepts and terms identified in the Washtenaw ISD Educational Equity Policy including concepts such as cultural proficiency, racial equity, and systemic and structural inequities.
• Advances student achievement across the ISD and local district programs.
• Provides organization and leadership in the area of curriculum development and implementation, specifically county curriculum directors and building administrators
• Provides support to local districts in meeting federal and state mandates.
• Promotes and coordinates interagency efforts involving programs across the curriculum.
• Responsible for WISD school improvement efforts in coordination with local, state, and federal initiatives.
• Responsible for the implementation of programs designed to build leadership capacity in local districts and within the organization.
• Creates and sustains of a team culture that is collaborative, supportive,
• Demonstrated application of school improvement process and/or school reform.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with local district personnel and ISD staff.
• Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative processes with a variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work across departments including Special Education, Community School Partnership, and Early Childhood in order to connect services, ensuring success for all students.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and evaluate instructional & assessment coordinators.
• Demonstrated ability to design and conduct program evaluation.
• Supports the team in articulating its goals and vision, both internally and externally.
• Creates and supports a system for internal program evaluation addressing the following questions: How do we hold ourselves accountable? Are we achieving our goals? How do we know?
• Create a structure of support for Culturally Sustaining Practices.
• Cultivate sustainable relationships with local districts to support teacher professional learning, teacher recruitment, and teacher retention.
• Supports coordinators in the design and implementation of professional learning and initiatives for county and local districts.
• Communication and support around educational policies and mandates
• Develop and sustain community partnerships with organizations (such as WACY, EMUWP, YpsiWrites 826, UMMA, UMS , and libraries,)
• Provide organization and leadership to maintain and expand current initiatives, including the Responsive Teaching Coalition, , and Freedom Schools
• Identifies and assists in securing potential grant funding opportunities working with WISD grant coordinators and district leadership
• Seeks opportunities to develop and expand engagement with a diverse group of stakeholders, partners, and communities.
• Serves local district needs in the areas of administration, leadership development, curriculum development, and instructional improvement with a lens on inclusive and educationally just and fair practices.
• Provides leadership, direction, and high levels of collaboration for professional learning and development approaches for the county.
• Provide consulting and leadership to state committees or organizations.
• Partners with regional and state instructional networks to advance and connect to people, ideas and opportunities relevant to the instructional efforts in our county, such as the
• Lead county wide curriculum director meetings and coordinate and support the county-wide principal networks.
• Other Duties as Assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervises professional staff, clerical staff, and contractors responsible for programs, projects, and initiatives designed to advance the goals of the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and such alternative requirements as may be appropriate and acceptable to the Board of Education. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Knowledge of organizational development and schools as organizations/systems; school improvement processes: research to improve achievement; curriculum development, alignment and implementation; assessment practices that result in improved instruction.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree minimum.
• Degree or coursework in Curriculum and/or Educational Leadership preferred.
• Experience with curriculum implementation, research-based instructional practices, and school improvement.
• Experience in preK-12 or higher education preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with other departments, agencies, and individuals.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret periodicals and professional journals.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of educators, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to facilitate effective group processes.
• Ability to express self clearly, both orally and in writing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to use a personal computer (PC) in a networked environment to utilize the Internet and other electronic communications mechanisms such as email conferencing or bulletin boards.
• Knowledge of productivity applications such as Microsoft Office (word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software) is required.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• A valid Michigan Teaching Certificate

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak or listen. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand. The employee is occasionally required to bend and or twist at the trunk more than the average person. The employee is continuously repeating the same hand, arm or finger motion many times. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds such as books and teaching material. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision and the ability to adjust focus. The ability to travel to other buildings is required. The position requires the individual to sometimes work irregular or extended work hours and meet multiple demands from several people.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to loud depending upon the activity in the particular part of the day. The employee may be required to be outdoors for periods of time, and therefore subject to varying weather conditions, for purposes of accomplishing the essential functions of this job.

FUNCTIONS OF POSITION DESCRIPTION:
This position description has been prepared to define the general duties of the position, provide examples of work and to detail the required knowledge, skills and ability as well as the acceptable experience and training for the position. The description is not intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the duties of employees under supervision. The WISD retains and reserves any and all rights to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any portion of this description in its sole judgment.

This position description is not a contract for employment.

The WISD is an equal opportunity employer, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

TERMS:
Contract, salary and other employment conditions to be established by the Board of Education as reflected in the Non-Affiliated Staff Manual. Starting salary ranging (dependent upon experience) from $98,064 - $120,519. This position is partially grant-funded and will be contingent upon grant awards.

Washtenaw Intermediate School District is a drug-free workplace.

The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout his/her employment at the District.

It is the policy and commitment of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, marital status, religion or handicap in its educational programs, activities, admissions, or employment policies in accordance with Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments, executive order 11246 as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and all other pertinent state and Federal regulations.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $98,064.00 - $120,519.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Work Location: In person