Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM

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 Managing Director of Curriculum and Instruction, the Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: Humanities is responsible for developing, codifying, and supporting the implementation of a rigorous, vertically aligned PreK-12th Grade Humanities curriculum. The Network Director of Humanities collaborates closely with school-based leaders to design and facilitate high-quality professional development and coaching, ensure strong implementation of the Humanities curriculum, and make strategic adjustments to curriculum and teaching in response to student data. The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of innovative best practices for Humanities teaching and learning in grades PreK-12, experience fostering adult learning through high quality professional development and coaching, and strong data utilization and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment
• Collaborates with the Managing Director of Schools and other key stakeholders to create a strategic vision for the network curriculum model;
• Designs and manages the development of a rigorous, vertically-aligned, and interdisciplinary grades PreK-12th grade ELA and Social Studies curriculum that fosters the achievement of all students, takes a constructivist, interdisciplinary approach, is culturally and historically responsive, and develops students’ critical consciousness;
• Manages the selection, adaptation, and/or creation of unit plans, assessments, lesson plans, and instructional materials for DREAM’s PreK-12th ELA and Social Studies  curriculum aligned to the science of reading and pedagogical best practices;
• Manages the creation and revision of network interim and unit-level assessments;
• Collaborates with the Managing Director of Curriculum and Instruction and other key stakeholders to design a multi-year process for strategic redesign, revision, and codification of the PreK-12th ELA and Social Studies curriculum and assessments;
• Manages the analysis of 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 and coaches Principals, Academic Deans, Deans of Student Supports, and other key stakeholders to regularly analyze assessment data and use it to drive instruction;
• Leads the ELA Working Group made up of leaders and teachers across our schools to innovate on our ELA academic program.


• People Leadership & Development
• Manages the Humanities team within the Curriculum and Instruction Team (CIT) to ensure alignment of our PK-12 Humanities programs, production and distribution of curriculum and assessment, and the analysis of data
• Manages the design and coaches the facilitation of high quality network-level professional development and coaching practices 
• Collaborates with the Managing Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM to design and lead highly effective training for Principals, Academic Deans, and Deans of Student Supports
• Collaborates with the Managing Director of Curriculum and Instruction, the Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM, and the Associate Director of Curriculum Operations to design an facilitate CIT Meetings and professional development
• Collaborates with the Managing Director of Curriculum and Instruction, the Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM, and the Associate Director of Curriculum Operations to design and develop CIT operations and strategy and network-