Sankofa School of Success

    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 Lead Teacher

    Reports to: Head of School

    Job Type Stipend



    TO APPLY: Please click the link HERE

    SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

    Leads a team of teachers across 1-2 grade levels to take collective ownership for all student achievement within their grade band. Sets the standard and ensures high quality instructional materials, data-driven personalized learning strategies, and effective student engagement practices are used across the team, by modeling excellence and establishing shared resources and practices. Provides mentorship to team members, including formal mentorship of an apprentice teacher.

    QUALIFICATIONS:

    EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree required

    LICENSE: Must hold a valid Indiana State Teacher's License in Elementary Education (K-6). Must be deemed Highly Qualified in accordance with the Indiana Department of Education

    EXPERIENCE

    Required experience includes:

    • 3 years experience as an effective or highly effective licensed teacher
    • Demonstrated history of increasing student achievement
    • Demonstrated history of influencing other adults to improve student achievement

    Preferred experience:

    • Instructional coaching and/or formally leading adults (i.e. manager or team leader)
    • Experience working in a Title I school or with a similar population of students

    COMPETENCIES:

    • Exemplar Teaching: Demonstrate excellence in creating a positive classroom culture and implementing instructional strategies and content expertise that drive student achievement
    • Data Analysis: Strategically analyze student data, creating groups and defining priorities to best leverage time and personnel
    • Differentiated Instructional Planning: Use content and pedagogy expertise to plan differentiated instruction to accelerate grade level learning based on student needs
    • 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 model of teaching 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



    ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIEs:

    In addition to fulfilling the roles of a Sankofa teacher, own the student achievement of your team, leading collective responsibility for student learning through:

    • Facilitating the creation of shared resources and high-quality instructional materials, including leading adaption of existing curriculum to meet student needs
    • Facilitating internalization protocols to ensure preparation of team members
    • Guiding team-based student data analysis to inform personalized learning approaches responsive to demonstrated student needs
    • Directing strategic decisions about optimal use of time and staff resources to maximize student learning outcomes
    • Strategically delegating responsibilities based on identified student needs and individual team member strengths
    • Maintaining an exemplary classroom that serves as a model of excellence for professional learning
    • Providing specific, actionable feedback and meaningful recognition to team members, with special attention to supporting apprentice teachers
    • Effectively communicating team progress, resource needs, and growth opportunities to instructional coaches and administrators

    Perform other duties as assigned.

    SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None

    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.

    CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Must hold a valid Indiana State Teacher's License in Elementary Education (K-6). Must be deemed Highly Qualified in accordance with the Indiana Department of Education

    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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