Associate Director of Middle School Math

Originally founded in 1991 as Harlem RBI, DREAM has grown to annually serve more than 2,500 youth across East Harlem and the South Bronx through a network of seven PreK-12, extended-day, extended-year DREAM Charter Schools and community sports-based youth development programs. Through our commitment to rigorous academics, social-emotional learning, deep family and community engagement, and health and wellness, we create lifelong learners who are equipped to fulfill their vision of success in and out of the classroom. We dream big, as well, with an aggressive five-year plan to expand to serve 3,500 students across seven schools—growing our organization’s impact and leveling the playing field for all children. To learn more, visit wearedream.org.
Reporting to the Network Director of STEM, the Associate Director of Middle School Math is responsible for managing the development and implementation of DREAM’s rigorous, vertically-aligned, interdisciplinary, constructivist, culturally and historically responsive 6-8 math curriculum. 
The Associate Director of Middle School Math collaborates closely with school-based leaders to design and facilitate high-quality professional development and coach leaders and teachers around content; ensure strong implementation of the math curriculum; create quiz, unit, and interim-level assessments; and analyze and respond to assessment data. The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of best practices for mathematics teaching and learning in grades 6-8, experience fostering adult learning through high-quality professional development and coaching, strong data analysis and strategic thinking skills, a mission-driven mindset, and a passion for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Curriculum, Assessment, and Data Responsiveness
• Develops and designs a rigorous, vertically-aligned, and interdisciplinary grade 6-8 math curriculum that fosters the achievement of all students, takes a constructivist approach, is culturally and historically responsive, and develops students’ critical consciousness
• Selects, adapts, and/or creates unit plans, assessments, lesson plans, and instructional materials for DREAM’s 6-8 math curriculum
• Collaborates with the Network Director of STEM and other key stakeholders to design a multi-year process for strategic redesign, revision, and codification of the 6-8 math curriculum and assessments
• Analyzes student data to assess the effectiveness of curricular design and implementation, makes necessary short- and long-term revisions and improvements, and creates network, school, and classroom-level action plans and resources to improve student achievement
• Collaborates with principals, academic deans, deans of student support, and other key stakeholders to regularly analyze assessment data and use it to drive instruction 
• Collaborates with the Associate Director of Elementary School Math, the Associate Director of High School Math, and the Associate Director of Science, Technology, and Engineering to ensure alignment of our PK-12 STEM programs


• Teacher & Leader Development
• Designs and facilitates high-quality professional development to support teachers and leaders with curriculum implementation 
• Conducts curriculum implementation and content walkthroughs to support school-based teams in determining focus areas and action steps for instructional improvement by observing math instruction and analyzing student and teacher data 
• Regularly observes and/or leads Intellectual Prep meetings in order to improve coaching and teacher development practices across schools
• Coaches academic deans to improve their instructional leadership, content knowledge, and curricular expertise

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s Degree in Education, Teaching, Curriculum, or School Administration/Leadership, strongly preferred, but not required;
• Minimum of 5 years experience teaching and/or leading middle school math with a record of strong achievement for ALL children;
• Minimum 1 year (more preferred) of school leadership including a successful record of developing teacher and/or leader knowledge, skill, and productive mindsets around teaching and learning, including experience with design and execution of adult professional development and coaching;
• Deep knowledge of instructional design, curriculum development, standards alignment, assessment design, and pedagogical best p