Analyst, Student Supports

The mission of the Office of School Improvement and Supports (OSIS) is to ensure we support our schools and our students to succeed and to meet the Goals of our Strategic Plan. The Office works to dramatically accelerate the number of excellent schools through school transformation, including design, partnerships, Connected Schools, and Comprehensive School Planning (CSP). The Office develops, aligns, and delivers high-quality supports to ensure students, particularly students furthest away from opportunity, are in school, able to engage in rigorous learning, and have a joyous educational environment. The Office ensures our schools have excellent leaders, educators, and staff who are prepared to meet the diverse needs of the young people we serve.

Divisions/Teams

School Improvement

• School Performance: Promotes data-driven decision-making through a cycle of continuous improvement to develop, implement, and monitor the comprehensive school plan designed to move schools toward a consistent standard of excellence.
• Design: Designs innovative school models that transform learning for our students furthest from opportunity and supports District workstreams to be more grounded in community voice by anchoring in data, community engagement and understanding, and elevating and integrating student voice.
• Connected Schools: Supports schools in implementing the DCPS Connected Schools Model. Connected Schools take a whole child, whole school, whole community approach by making schools spaces that support not only a student’s academic development, but also the student and family’s overall wellbeing through access to resources related to health, employment, housing, and more.
• Equity Strategy and Programing: Supports DCPS’ equity priority by ensuring systemically underserved students are provided with opportunities, skills, and engagements that support their success, and that DCPS staff and stakeholders are centering equity as a central lens and practice.

Student Supports

• School Mental Health: Ensures that students' behavioral and social-emotional needs are met to increase access to the curriculum.
• Student Placement: Ensures that schools have the necessary supports to address the needs of the whole child and create the conditions where all students are ready to learn.
• Student Health Services: Ensures that all students are healthy and are supported with the appropriate services and accommodations to support their wellness and continued learning.

Learning and Development Sciences

• The Learning and Development Sciences Division (LDS) is charged with supporting the district’s transformation to becoming a whole child-centered, anti-racist school system—DCPS Becoming. Grounded in science and powered by lived experiences, the district’s approach is a long-term vision that counts on each district and school staff member knowing the science of learning and development and applying this research to their own work. Charged with building the capacity of district and school staff, as well as integrating a whole-child and anti-racist lens into the district’s key priorities, the LDS Division will leverage the experiences of school leaders and staff to translate the research into systems, tools, and practices.
• SEL and School Culture: Ensures that schools have the resources to provide a safe and supportive learning environment where all students are able to thrive academically and socially.

IMPACT:

• IMPACT Operations: Supports the daily implementation of both Staff and School Leader IMPACT. The team ensures IMPACT policy is followed with fidelity, manages a helpline where staff can reach out with questions, handles IMPACT appeals, and fulfills all IMPACT data analysis requests.
• IMPACT Align: Ensures all evaluators have the tools they need to accurately and consistently apply the DCPS classroom observation rubric (the Essential Practices) when evaluating teacher practice. Provides tools for teachers to support excellent performance with respect to the Essential Practices.
• IMPACT Design: Gathers and responds to feedback from DCPS leadership and staff, and uses this feedback to consider possible IMPACT design changes for the future. The team also liaises with other states, districts, education groups, and researchers to learn from the best practices and lessons learned in the field of staff and school leader evaluation.

The Analyst, Student Supports will provide operations and administrative support to the Student Supports Division. This includes the coordination of processes that lead to the efficient operation of all teams within the division. The Analyst will work with staff-level contacts within the division to provide data reporting, meeting coordination, and other administrative needs.

The Analyst, Student Supports will report to the Specialist, Operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required. Other duties may be assigned.

• Monitors, analyzes, and complies reports on performance measures and data points related to the various initiatives within the Student Supports Division.

• Prepares, processes, and retrieves data from various DCPS storage systems using programs such as SEDS/Easy IEP, Quickbase applications, Accelify, and Microsoft Excel.

• Provides technical support assistance for data capture and report generation or analysis efforts.

• Schedules meetings that involve the division's Senior Deputy Chief and other multiple stakeholders and addresses conflicting appointments.

• Supports the coordination, logistics, and note-taking for various meetings, such as staff retreats, leadership team meetings, division meetings, intra-agency meetings, etc.

• Assists with tracking correspondence and the progress of key projects and initiatives.

• Supports the maintenance of and updates to the Student Supports Division website, social media outlets, and other internal and external Division communications.

• Interacts with and responds effectively to urgent requests from multiple internal and external stakeholders.

• Builds relationships and liaises with various central office and school-based stakeholders to improve collaboration and communication and to represent DCPS’s work effectively.

• Stays closely aware of projects, initiatives, and emerging issues across schools and DCPS; and informs the division of any that could require communications action.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and one year of experience OR two years of experience (no degree requirement).
• Previous exposure to or experience in the education sector a plus.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, including strong knowledge and skills using Microsoft Excel.
• Previous data analysis experience preferred.

DCPS Values

• STUDENTS FIRST: We recognize students as whole children and put their needs first in everything we do.
• COURAGE: We have the audacity to learn from our successes and failures, to try new things, and to lead the nation as a proof point of PK-12 success.
• EQUITY: We work proactively to eliminate opportunity gaps by interrupting institutional bias and investing in effective strategies to ensure every student succeeds.
• EXCELLENCE: We work with integrity and hold ourselves accountable for exemplary outcomes, service, and interactions.
• TEAMWORK: We recognize that our greatest asset is our collective vision and ability to work collaboratively and authentically.
• JOY: We enjoy our collective work and will enthusiastically celebrate our success and each other.