Sankofa School of Success

    ** This position will close it's application acceptance on 4/18/2025 **

    SANKOFA MISSION

    The mission of Sankofa School of Success, Inc. is to create an environment that is safe, nurturing and seeks to meet students’ academic, social and emotional needs using neuroscience, mindfulness, and rigorous education.

    JOB DESCRIPTION

    Title Director of Educator Development

    Reports to Executive Director

    Job Type Exempt - Elementary



    TO APPLY: Please click the link HERE

    SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

    The Director of Educator Development creates systems and leads professional development efforts and academic interventions programs (RTI/MTSS) to build a pipeline of talented leaders, teachers, pre-service teachers, and academic partners skilled in the Sankofa mission and model.



    QUALIFICATIONS:

    EDUCATION: Master’s degree in Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership, or a related field preferred

    LICENSE: Must hold a valid Indiana State Teacher's License or Administrative License. Must be deemed Highly Qualified in accordance with the Indiana Department of Education

    REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

    • Minimum of 5 years of teaching experience in an elementary school setting.
    • Proven experience leading adults in a school setting such as instructional coaching and/or school administration.
    • Track record of improving student achievement through instructional strategies and data analysis.

    PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

    • Experience working in a Title I school or with a similar population of students
    • Experience working with pre-service educators at the high school, college, or Transition to Teaching level
    • Experience working with RTI/MTSS frameworks, high-dosage tutoring, and intervention programs

    COMPETENCIES:

    • Strategic Communication: Ability to articulate the school’s mission, vision, and values persuasively, tailoring messages to different audiences in both written and verbal communication and making educational concepts accessible to a wide range of stakeholders
    • Effectiveness in Adult Learning: Skilled at creating engaging professional learning experiences for adults that translate into improved educational practice
    • Instructional & Social Emotional Expertise: Understands and can demonstrate key components of the Sankofa education model including the science of reading, math content, and social emotional learning.
    • Data-Driven Program Management: Skilled in developing data-driven schedules to maximize the use of time and personnel to improve student learning and developing tracking and monitoring procedures to monitor student progress.
    • Team Leadership Skills: Lead a team of adults to collectively plan and achieve goals for students by demonstrating leadership practices such as:
      • Leadership Skills: Communication, decision making, delegation & accountability
      • People Management: Listening, conflict resolution, providing constructive feedback and recognition, and building trust
      • Professional Development: Coaching and mentoring team members and leading by example
      • Strategic Thinking: Problem solving, adaptability, prioritization, and resource management
      • Operational Excellence: Project and time management, organization, and standard setting
      • Emotional Intelligence: Self awareness and regulation, motivating team members, relationship building across stakeholders, and cultivating a positive team culture
    • Adaptability & Creativity: Help to develop a new position and team by embracing new strategies, demonstrating flexibility and patience with change, creating new structures and systems as needed, and inspiring confidence in team members to remain calm and focused while trying new approaches
    • Intervention Expertise: Understands the RTI/MTSS framework and can apply evidence-based practices in intervention for students struggling in literacy and math

    JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Educator Pipeline & Professional Development

    • Develop and lead the Summer Institute and New Staff Academy to onboard educators new to Sankofa in our unique model and provide training in the evidence-based practices we utilize
    • Build partnerships with high school and university education programs to develop and support experiential learning opportunities at Sankofa and create a teacher pipeline
    • Coordinate Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, providing training, oversight, and coaching for supplemental instruction delivered by special populations staff, tutors, high school and university students, volunteers, and other partners.
    • Provide training opportunities for families to learn best practices for supporting their child’s learning at home
    • Facilitate the development or adoption of whole child learning-focused credentials that pre-service or current educators can earn as part of their professional development at Sankofa
    • Collaborate with other instructional leaders to develop ongoing professional learning experiences for current Sankofa educators

    Instructional & Social Emotional Excellence

    • Model and teach educators and partners to create and maintain an environment conducive to safety and learning that promotes both intellectual growth and emotional well-being
    • Lead intervention providers in adapting curricular materials to meet student needs
    • Model and teach educators and partners to implement evidence-based instructional strategies and apply neuroscience and mindfulness principles to support students' developmental needs

    Data-Driven Practice

    • Create systems for Tier 2 and Tier 3 progress monitoring and shared data systems to evaluate student learning and instructional effectiveness
    • Collaborate with colleagues to analyze student work and assessment data and plan targeted instructional adjustments

    Communication & Collaboration

    • Serve as member of the executive leadership team and help ensure alignment to schoolwide goals and initiatives
    • Develop shared communication and collaboration systems for professional development and MTSS
    • Collaborate effectively with administration, student support staff, and all staff
    • Seek and utilize community resources to enhance instructional programming
    • Resolve conflicts promptly using reason and emotional intelligence, focusing on solutions rather than blame
    • Uphold school policies and procedures while contributing to a culture of excellence and accountability.
    • Effectively communicate team progress, resource needs, and growth opportunities to instructional coaches and administrators

    Professional Growth

    • Attend and participate fully in all professional development opportunities
    • Solicit and respond to feedback to continuously improve instructional practice
    • Proactively communicate challenges with a solutions-mindset
    • Provide professional development to teachers to enhance instructional practices and student learning outcomes.
    • Oversee the implementation of RTI/MTSS frameworks, high-dosage tutoring programs, and academic intervention plans.
    • Support the integration of educational technology and blended learning tools to enhance student engagement and achievement.
    • Collaborate with school leadership to ensure alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices.

    Perform other duties as assigned.



    SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Directly supervises the K-6 Flexible Teacher and serves as school liaison for academic partners including university and high school pre-service teachers, tutors, and volunteers. Supports administration with supervision of Unified Students Supports staff.

    LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to effectively present information in one-on- one, small group, and large group situations.

    MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

    REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

    PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to find, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

    WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and humid conditions and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

    DISCLAIMER:

    The above job description is designed to denote the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications of employees assigned to this job.




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