Chrysalis Alternative School Director

Salary from $86,250 (Based on verified Education and Experience)

Classification: Administrative                                                                                            Location: Taos High School

Reports to: Superintendent or Designee                                                                                            FLSA Status: Exempt

Bargaining Unit: Director (205 working days)

Position Summary:

As the Director of Chrysalis, serves as the educational leader responsible for development, implementation, supervision, and evaluation of a comprehensive program of educational and student services. Administers the program in accordance with board policies, statutory requirements, administrative rules and regulations, and consistent with collective bargaining agreements. Serves as an advocate for the staff, school, and school community as appropriate.

Supervision:

Utilizes the strategic plan, district goals, district policy, and the approved school improvement plan to guide bother personal leadership and the work of the school staff. Annual evaluation will be based upon this job description, goals and objectives specific to the school or the position, and student achievement data.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Creating a school culture that promotes the ongoing improvement of learning and teaching for students and staff: Develops and sustains focus on a shared mission and clear vision for improvement of learning and teaching. Engages stakeholders in the essential conversation for ongoing improvement. Facilitates collaborative processes with stakeholders leading toward continuous improvement. Collaborates with the school sites.
2. Monitoring, assisting, and evaluating effective instruction and assessment practices: An effective leader is knowledgeable and deeply involved in the design and implementation of the instructional program and issues. Develops a working knowledge and ability to lead school initiatives. Participates in professional development regarding school initiatives. Monitors instruction and assessment practices ensuring alignment with the 90 Day Dash Plan. Assists staff in developing required student growth plans and identifying valid reliable sources of evidence to effectiveness. Assists staff in implementing effective instruction and assessment practices.
3. Providing for school safety: Effectively engages the entire community to develop a more nuanced/expanded understanding of what it means to be safe. Provides for the physical, intellectual, and emotional safety for effective teaching and learning to take place.
4. Serves as the administrative disciplinarian over students.
5. Leads collaboration between school sites to develop, implement, and evaluate a data-driven plan for increasing student achievement, including the use of multiple student data elements, as needed: Recognizes and seeks out multiple data sources. Analyzes and interprets multiple data sources to inform school-level improvement efforts. Implements data driven plan for improved teaching and learning. Assists staff in using data to guide, modify and improve classroom teaching and learning.
6. Collaborates with site Principals with alignment of curriculum, instruction and assessment with state and local district learning goals: Provides leadership to ensure fidelity to the prescribed curricula that is in alignment to state and local district learning goals. Ensures alignment and implementation of best instructional practices to state and district learning goals. Provides that assessment practices are aligned with both curriculum and instruction.
7. Managing both staff and fiscal resources to support student achievement and legal responsibilities: Manages human and fiscal resources. The support of hiring, assignments, evaluations, ongoing professional development and the fulfillment of legal responsibilities is required. Decisions are made about resources that result in improved teaching and learning
8. Partnering with the school community to promote student learning: Understands the greater community and works to establish a genuine partnership model between home and school. Aligns school and community efforts and values as a work in progress that must be nurtured, sustained, and monitored, and is able to influence others to adopt the same understanding. Community engagement decisions are made that result in improved teaching and learning.
9. Demonstrating commitment to closing the achievement gap: Use evidence to support student improvement. Identifies barriers to achievement and knows how to close resulting gaps. Demonstrates a commitment to close the achievement gap. Provides evidence of growth in student learning.
10. Leadership and Governance:
11. Consistently demonstrates high moral, ethical, and professional standards of performance and personal integrity, which includes addressing problems and issues in an open, honest, and timely manner. Ensures proper conduct which goes beyond the practice of avoiding what is wrong and instead focusing on choosing to do what is right. Serves as a champion for the school and the district, avoiding actual or perceived behavior personally or among the staff which may cast a negative impression on the school, the District, or the Board.
12. Models and promotes trust, enthusiasm, rapport, respect and openness among faculty, staff, students, and members of the community. Celebrates successes and recognizes the achievements of others.
13. Creates a professional environment by assuring that personal and staff interactions with others in the school, community, and board are conducted with utmost respect and professionalism.
14. Honors the ideas of others even when in disagreement with those ideas. Works collaboratively to resolve disagreement and seek mutually respectful solutions.
15. Actively participates in meetings, workshops and conferences that involve decisions affecting the district and/or the school. Advocates for the school needs by providing input to the decision-making process of the district. Respects, supports, and implements decisions once made, and acts to ensure that staff are equally supportive.
16. Participates in school academic, athletic, and co-curricular activities to supervise and advocate for the school.
17. Teaches a full range of competencies to include but not limited to:
18. Familiar with Taos Municipal Schools’ curriculum and its goals and objectives.
19. Must be able to relate specific Career and Technical Education concepts to daily life situations.
20. Ability to design activity-centered units that also support academic essential learning.
21. Incorporate Student Leadership standards within curricula.
22. Participate in program advisory activities.
23. As part of the planning process for inclusion students with special needs, the teacher may assist in identifying and complies with teaching and learning and student accommodation requirements under Individual Education Plans (IEP) and 504 accommodation requirements.
24. As needed, the teacher will regularly conduct planning for lessons using commonly accepted professional practice (content, goals, assessment, re-teaching, etc.) and consistent with school/district approved curriculum and instructional practice. The teacher uses research-based instructional strategies in planning lessons to make the teaching and learning more relevant to students (e.g., contextual learning opportunities).
25. The teacher maintains and provides reasonable and meaningful student grading and evaluation consistent with school district policy and regularly and effectively communicates such information to students and parents. Reporting may include regular posting to and maintenance of electronic grade systems with parent and student access.
26. The teacher integrates district approved and/or required technology into planning, learning, progress reporting, and required record-keeping activities.
27. The teacher creates, communicates, and maintains classroom management practices that effectively engage students in the learning process. Acceptable student behavior and related discipline procedures are well understood by students and consistently enforced to maintain a positive learning environment.
28. The teacher is constantly observant of the needs and challenges of students and promptly engages an administrator or appropriate educational staff associates when the teacher suspects or reasonably believes that a student is at risk or in danger due to such issues as bullying, sexual harassment/misconduct, depression or suicide ideation, or academic failure. The teacher serves as a positive role model for students and practices and behaviors that are expected of students.
29. The teacher assists in the supervision of students at school activities and events. The teacher remains vigilant of students throughout the school day and the school location, taking the initiative to engage students when students are acting inappropriately or in an inappropriate location for the time of day.
30. Required to follow board policies and procedures; stay abreast of updates/changes.
31. Performs all other duties assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Master’s Degree
2. Valid Administrative License issued by NM PED.
3. Five (5) successful years of teaching experience.
4. Prior experience as an administrator preferred.
5. Ability to create a safe, orderly, positive school climate for students and staff.
6. Ability to foster growth, creativity, and flexibility using a variety of techniques.
7. Ability to facilitate resolution of complex interpersonal issues.
8. Demonstrate successful experience in shared decision making, program development, staff supervision and evaluation.
9. Knowledge and skill in fiscal management, staff development, and human relations.
10. Ability to work with District initiative around the Common Core State Standards.
11. Knowledge and demonstrative skills in the use of technology for teaching and learning.
12. Managerial skills in planning, organizing, delegating, and listening.
13. Ability to gain and demonstrate knowledge of District policy and State laws that govern budget procedures and expenditures.
14. Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations governing the operation of public schools, including school reform legislation.
15. Knowledge of innovations in education; alternative instructional strategies, alternative assessment methods; blended instructional support; in-class support for special needs students, instruction based on student performance and decision making, peer tutoring, cooperative learning.
16. Ability to react in emergency situations to include intervening and, as necessary, consistent with District policy, restraining students and/or breaking up fights.

Physical and Environmental Requirements of the Position:

• The physical demand and work environment 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.
• The employee must lift and/or move 25 to 50 pounds, and may assist, move, or restrain students with greater weight when required to intervene in student safety issues.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, lift, carry, move about, hear and speak. Employee may be required to perform extensive work at a computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes, airborne particles, toxic, or caustic chemicals, blood, or other infectious materials during the course of their duties.
• The noise level in the work environment is us typically moderate but can increase on occasion.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.

Salary : $86,250