• Job Description

  Req#: 42366

  Reports to: Chief of Teaching and Learning

  OVERVIEW:

  Boston Public Schools believes that all children must experience inclusive, rigorous, and culturally and linguistically sustaining teaching and learning that prepares them to be college, career and life-ready. The Boston Public Schools is looking for a dynamic and innovative leader with leadership skills that promotes collaboration within the Office Teaching and Learning, across BPS departments, staff, families, students, and communities to implement the District’s Instructional Vision successfully. The position of the Deputy Chief of Teaching and Learning (CAO) is charged with supporting quality curriculum and providing instructional guidance, assessments and resources to support instruction that develops literacy, language, and knowledge acquisition across contents and that will be grounded in multi-tiered systems of support, utilizing culturally and linguistically sustaining practices and promoting social-emotional and physical well-being among the diverse students of BPS.

  The Deputy CAO must create a culture of teaching and learning, centrally and at schools, that supports implementing the BPS instructional vision. As a District, we are focused on equitable literacy practices, becoming a fully inclusion District, expanding dual language and bilingual instruction and promoting the social, emotional and physical health of our students.

  The Deputy Chief of Teaching and Learning will support this work by developing evidence-based guidance and materials, including tools, resources, and curriculum in instruction across content and grade levels. This will be true for all classroom, general education, special education, and English learners. In addition, they will establish the expectations of high-quality professional learning based on adult learning principles. To achieve these goals, the Deputy Chief of Teaching and Learning will have clear milestones and identified data for monitoring the impact on student performance and teaching and learning.

  In addition, the Deputy Chief will work collaboratively with district leaders, including the Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Learners and Office of Special Education to create district-wide systems that ensure all our students have access to quality instruction and are attending high-quality schools that can support all of our students. The Deputy Chief is the leader responsible for establishing communication protocols, systems and structures, and relationships internally and externally that ensure coherence and foster teaching and learning innovation across the system.

  RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide leadership in the strategic planning and implementation of the BPS Instructional Vision;
  • Supervise, support, coach, and evaluate staff under their responsibility, and model professional competencies in all interactions as a representative of BPS;
  • Work closely with the Teaching and Learning Team to support evidence-based curriculum, and teaching and learning pedagogy for all learners, including special education and multilingual learners learners;
  • Model leadership utilizing effective communication skills that reflects a deep commitment to the educational success and opportunity for all students, problem solving skills and protocols, and leading with inspiring transformation;

  • Work collaboratively with district leaders to create and implement school based, student centered academic strategies and best practices;
  • Utilize adult learning and change management strategies in the development of resources, tools, and professional learning for schools and district staff, including ongoing learning opportunities and utilizing research based and promising practices that exist at the national and local level with a particular lens on culturally, linguistically, ands diverse student populations;
  • Lead the development and implementation of tools to assess academic performance;
  • Pilot innovative approaches to personalized learning and scale those that are effective;
  • Work collaboratively in designing measurement frameworks and data collection approaches that would help capture students’ academic achievement;
  • Establish positive relationships and seek out additional partnerships to ensure resources are accessed and allocated, as well as to support additional practice priorities can be explored;
  • Monitor grants, budgetary procedures and systems;
  • Requires work outside traditional working hours including nights and weekends.

  QUALIFICATION - REQUIRED:

  • Demonstrate experience with and a strong understanding of standards based, grade level appropriate curriculum and instruction;
  • Hold a Master’s Degree in Education or related field;
  • Hold a valid Massachusetts Assistant Superintendent license or must be able and willing to attain this license;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of compliance and classroom instruction for english learners and special education students;
  • Possess a minimum of three years of a senior level leadership in a school district, school, or organization, with experience establishing systems in schools and/or management experience in education strategy development and implementation;
  • Successful experience with planning and conducting meetings and facilitation and training methodologies;
  • Demonstrate capability to work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, such as school district staff, families, youth, community members and other essential partners;
  • Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of successful research-based academic strategies, evaluations, theories, techniques, and methods of instruction;
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop and implement adult learning activities on the intersections the variables that impact student success, including academics, behavior, bias, etc.
  • Comfort with handling multiple projects simultaneously as well as working with rapidly shifting priorities and targets;
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to create trusting relationships;
  • Commitment to self-reflection and on-going learning;
  • Experience developing monitoring systems for quality improvement;
  • Strong organizational skills, with outstanding attention to detail;
  • Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment;
  • Have experience managing a budget and making sound fiscal decisions;
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills;
  • Experience working with diverse student populations.

  QUALIFICATIONS - PREFERRED:

  • Ed.D or Ph.D in Education;
  • Bilingual

  TERMS: Managerial, E92.

  The Boston Public Schools, in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies, does not discriminate in its programs, facilities, or employment or educational opportunities on the basis of race, color, age, criminal record (inquiries only), disability, homelessness, sex/gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, genetics or military status, and does not tolerate any form of retaliation, or bias-based intimidation, threat or harassment that demeans individuals’ dignity or interferes with their ability to learn or work.

• About the company

  Boston Public Schools is a school district serving the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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