<p>SUMMARY: The Associate Curriculum, Data, and Assessment Manager for Math will provide proactive, collaborative leadership to support the execution of key strategic initiatives related to Math. Will support and strengthen the management of a system wide Math initiative aimed at developing staff to ensure District goals are met.</p> <p>KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: Thorough knowledge of current educational principles, best practices and procedures in development and implementation of Math curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Knowledge of local, state and national standards and assessments and ability to support their application, development and implementation. Knowledge of use of technology as an educational tool to support learning, multicultural instructional materials, and experience teaching across disciplines and with diverse populations. With the support of the CDAM for Math, able to provide leadership for professional development building capacity in Math instruction. Ability to support the monitoring of implementation of strategic initiatives and support the district's goals through school visits, data analysis, and collaboration with other NBPS offices. Ability to effectively collaborate with staff, parents, and state and national colleagues to implement and monitor the strategic plan.</p> <p>Possess excellent planning, organization, management, communications (oral and written) and human relations skills. Ability to prepare documents and presentations for a variety of audiences about the Math program. Have clear and demonstrated dedication to urban education and to the belief that all students can learn in order to develop the mission of educational excellence in New Bedford Public Schools.</p> <p>Experience in curriculum implementation, quantitative data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting with strong focus on data quality and continuous improvement processes. Expertise with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; and in evaluating and learning new computer programs and familiarity with both Mac and PC operating environments. Proactive problem solver who demonstrates initiative. Strong work ethic coupled with an enthusiastic and passionate approach to one's work.</p> <p>Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent</p> <p>EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree required and Master's degree desired from accredited college or university. Course work in educational leadership or administration. Minimum seven years combined experience as a classroom teacher and/or successful recent leadership experience in assessing program needs, instructional planning, assessment development, and professional development.</p> <p>DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES</p> <p>Curriculum: Support the implementation and evaluation of new curriculum. Collaboratively lead a team of administrators and teachers who will assist in curriculum implementation. Collaboratively support the review/assessment of current curriculum to ensure that course/program is meeting intended grade level curriculum standards. Use evaluations and data to make recommendations for how to improve implementation of curricula on a regular basis through the use of a curriculum revision cycle.</p> <p>Data Management: Assist district administrators in preparing and administering reports to comply with federal and state requirements. Thorough analysis of student outcome data resulting in action steps that improve those outcomes.</p> <p>Assessment: Collaborate to define and execute testing calendar and polices. Collaboratively develop a plan to support test administration and data collections for all schools. Support schools in managing implementation and administration of all state, district, and school common assessments. Partner with school leadership teams to support each school's interim assessment protocols to analyze data, and support school leaders in identifying areas for improvement; Collect and disseminate best practices, external resources in the areas of benchmark and unit assessment data. Work with district and school leadership to identify key metrics to monitor district, school and student progress to allow for informed decision making. Develop, manage and report on staff, student and community surveys. Analysis and Reporting (as required by supervising CDAM): Conduct statistical analysis of student achievement data and school information and maintain data warehouse of all student assessment scores (state, district and school data and others as identified). Provide timely and clear reports on data analyzed. Management of data dashboards and other regular reports or analysis that answer questions for key stakeholders, provide insight on student, school and district performance trends and patterns; and informs discussions and strategic decisions at the district and school levels, (e.g. aggregate and subgroup trends). Collaborate to create a "public package" of achievement and other student-level data and provide a clear understanding of what the data means to critical audiences (School Committee, families and community, foundations, etc.) working with the Community Relations Manager to message the information in a public-friendly way Collaboratively assess and recommend data software solutions, evaluate implementation of systems, technologies and business practices related to data management.</p> <p>Coaching and Development: Collaborate with Deputy Superintendent and other Office of School Performance leaders to conduct significant professional development around new initiatives in the areas of curriculum, data management and analytics. Champion key findings from analysis and develop implementation models for district and school leaders to act upon data results. Serve as Office of School Performance point of contact for building based administration as directed by CDAM for Math Assists with supervision of Principals</p> <p>TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: CERTIFICATE AND LICENSE REQUIREMENTS: Meet appropriate DESE Administrator requirements, or ability to do so PHYSICAL DEMANDS (Special requirements such as lifting heavy objects and frequent climbing): NONE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (Frequent overtime or night work required, etc.): Some extended day work required. Occasional attendance at evening meetings (i.e., School Committee, PTA, and community). OVERTIME ELIGIBLE: NO REPORTS TO: SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE SALARY: $120,000-$130,000, Non-Union, 12 Months</p> <p>This description may change at any time</p>