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Jenks Public Schools Job Description
Position: Director of Professional Learning
Reports To: Executive Director of Teaching and Learning
Supervises: N/A
Qualifications:
- Oklahoma administrative certificate is preferred, but not required.
- Master’s degree required.
- Classroom teaching experience.
- Satisfy all District requirements with regard to physical health and citizenship.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Position Goals:
- Provides leadership in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating District professional learning for certified and classified staff.
- Collaborates across sites and departments to support instructional innovation, continuous improvement, and strategic district initiatives.
- Support the development and implementation of systems, resources, and supports that strengthen the District’s Professional Learning Community practices.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Leads the District in determining needs, planning, designing, communicating, and delivering professional learning for certified and classified staff, i.e., new teacher training, summer training, professional learning days, and technology support.
- Works collaboratively with the Professional Learning Administrative Assistant to manage the professional learning registration system and individual staff members’ professional learning transcripts.
- Work collaboratively with the Professional Learning Administrative Assistant to maintain and add to the professional learning resources.
- Provides leadership to ensure the District meets professional learning requirements resulting from legislative actions and state mandates, including cycles of annual review and refinement.
- Provides leadership in coordinating District professional learning initiatives i.e. Mindset, Writing Institute (elementary, intermediate, secondary), Advanced Placement Training, inquiry work with Trevor Mackenzie, and other ongoing initiatives.
- Provides leadership and supervision for the Title II federal program, including, but not limited to the District Consolidated Application process, required needs assessments, budgets, and reports.
- Provides leadership and facilitates the District Professional Learning Committee.
- Manages local professional development funds, budgets, and reports.
- Stays current with professional learning trends by following multiple formats i.e., blogs, podcasts, professional organizations that support District areas of focus and strategic objectives.
- Provides leadership and supports the District’s Professional Learning Community work through the development of implementation frameworks, facilitator resources, handbooks, training videos, and aligned professional learning supports.
- Provides leadership in partnership with the Educational Technology Department for the district’s vision, implementation, and continuous improvement of artificial intelligence in teaching, learning, and leadership practices.
- Provides leadership and partnership with Human Resources to support the Oklahoma Teacher Empowerment Grant.
- Facilitates the District Teacher of the Year selection process and the State Teacher of the Year application process.
- Participates and co-facilitates meetings initiated through Teaching and Learning i.e., media, department, District curriculum alignment and adoption committee.
- Coordinates with Human Resources to provide support for emergency and alternatively certified teachers, to include resources for the Praxis Performance Assessment Teacher (PPAT) and the Oklahoma Subject Area Test (OSAT).
- Collaborates with universities on programs that support teacher certification and shares information about opportunities to employees.
- Performs other duties and assumes responsibilities for other tasks that may be assigned by the Executive Director for Teaching and Learning.
Terms of Employment: Twelve (12) months a year. Salary and work year to be established by the Board. Benefits as established by Board policy.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board of Education’s policy on Staff Evaluation (2.20/certified).
Physical Demands:
This is an overview intended for compliance with the ADA – it is not an exhaustive list of the duties to be performed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of a specific position.
Regular Requirements: Stand for extended periods; sit for extended periods; twist at the neck and trunk; bend at the waist; stoop, kneel, crouch; lift/move up to 20 pounds; handle objects and tools with hands; repetitive use of fingers and hands.
Occasional Requirements: Reach with hands and arms overhead, above shoulder and horizontally; lift/move up to 40 pounds.
Visual Requirements: Close, color, peripheral, depth perception, ability to adjust focus.
Hearing/Speaking Requirements: Adequate to exchange information.