Academic Director of the City Neighbors Foundation
at City Neighbors Foundation
in
Baltimore,
Maryland
Posted in Other about 17 hours ago.
Type: full-time
Job Description:
Job Summary:
City Neighbors Foundation is seeking a founding Academic Director who will partner with school
leaders to envision and champion the academic vision, strategy, and instructional coherence across
our K-12 schools, ensuring alignment with our mission of high-quality, progressive, inclusive
education for all students. This role involves coordinating mission-aligned instruction, facilitating
curricular decision-making processes, supporting professional development, promoting the use of
authentic data, and fostering teacher growth, all with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
to create an enriching, community-centered learning environment.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Academic Vision and Strategy
? Serve as the spokesperson for our academic vision, fostering coherence and
connection across schools, ensuring that educational programming is high-quality and
mission-aligned.
? Guide and assess the quality of instruction, maintaining and improving a project-based,
arts-integrated, progressive, and innovative approach to learning.
? Facilitate curriculum decision-making processes with school leaders.
2. Educator Professional Development and Support
? Partner with school leadership to co-create, and sometimes execute, collaborative
professional development spaces for educators, fostering an environment of continual
growth.
? Support teacher growth cycles, observation, and coaching across schools.
? Lead organization-wide professional development such as New Educator Orientation
and the Teaching Fellows Program.
? Manage combined professional development, such as the annual City Neighbors
Symposium and external teacher training partnerships, which promotes shared learning
and innovation for all educators within City Neighbors.
3. Instructional Data and Assessment
? Lead our organizational data portfolio work, ensuring the effective use of authentic and
multi-faceted instructional data to improve learning outcomes.
? Develop and collaborate on school-based data structures and systems to support
instructional goals.
4. Collaboration and School Leadership Support
? Partner with principals to drive instructional excellence and conduct regular school
walkthroughs to support instructional practices and programming across campuses.
Qualifications:
? Demonstrated experience in K-12 progressive educational leadership, designing innovative
curricula, implementing student-centered instructional practices, project-based learning and
arts integration.
? Demonstrated success in leading educator-centered and collaborative professional
development and growth.
? Experience and skill in analyzing and utilizing multifaceted and authentic data to inform and
enhance student-centered learning practices
? Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with school leaders, teachers, and
community partners.
? Master's Degree or Educational Leadership Certification preferred.
Salary
$100,000 - $110,000 + $20,000 health benefits allowance and 3% retirement match.
Timeline
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until January 30, 2025. The anticipated start date
is July 1, 2025.
To Apply
To apply, submit a resume and cover letter to Mike Chalupa, Director, at
mchalupa@cityneighbors.org.
Website
www.cityneighborsfoundation.org