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Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM

New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2026

💰 $140,000/yr($125,000/yr – $140,000/yr)

About the role

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 Academics, the Network Director of Curriculum and Instruction: STEM is responsible for developing, codifying, and supporting the implementation of a rigorous, vertically aligned K-12th Grade STEM curriculum. The Network Director of STEM collaborates closely with school-based leaders to design and facilitate high-quality professional development and coaching, ensure strong implementation of the STEM 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 STEM teaching and learning in grades K-12, experience fostering adult learning through high quality professional development and coaching, and strong data utilization and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment

Designs and manages the development of a rigorous, vertically-aligned, and interdisciplinary grades K-12th grade STEM curriculum that fosters the achievement of all students, takes a constructivist, interdisciplinary approach, is culturally and historically responsive, and develops students’ critical consciousness;
Collaborates with the Managing Director of Academics and other key stakeholders to create a strategic vision for the network curriculum model;
Manages the selection, adaptation, and/or creation of unit plans, assessments, lesson plans, and instructional materials for DREAM’s K-12th STEM curriculum aligned to the science of learning and pedagogical best practices;
Manages the creation and revision of network interim and unit-level assessments;
Collaborates with the Managing Director of Academics and other key stakeholders to design a multi-year process for strategic redesign, revision, and codification of the K-12th STEM 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 Working Groups made up of leaders and teachers across our schools to innovate on our academic program.

People Leadership & Development

Manages the STEM team within the Curriculum and Instruction Team (CIT) to ensure alignment of our K-12 STEM 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 others to design and lead highly effective training school leaders, facilitate CIT meetings and professional development, and design and develop CIT operations and strategy and network-wide academic strategy;
Leads curriculum implementation and content walkthroughs to support school-based teams in determining focus areas and action steps for instructional improvement by observing literacy instruction and analyzing student and teacher data;
Regularly observes and provides feedback to Associate Directors of STEM and to Principals, Academic Deans, and Deans of Student Supports on their coaching of leaders and/or teachers