Curriculum, Data and Assessment Manager for History/Social Science

New Bedford Public School District•New Bedford, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Curriculum, Assessment, and Data Manager for History / Social Sciences (HSS) will provide proactive, collaborative leadership to support the execution of key strategic initiatives related to HSS. This role involves a deep understanding of educational principles, curriculum development, data analysis, and assessment management within the PreK-12 History/Social Science domain. The manager will be responsible for leading teams, conducting research, coordinating evaluations, and developing strategic plans to enhance HSS programming and student achievement.

Requirements

Thorough knowledge of current educational principles, best practices and procedures in development and implementation of HSS curriculum, instruction, and assessment PreK-12.
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.
Ability to provide leadership for professional development building capacity in HSS instruction.
Ability to monitor the implementation of strategic initiatives and support the district's goals through school visits, data analysis, and collaboration with other New Bedford Public School (NBPS) offices.
Ability to effectively collaborate with staff, parents, and state and national colleagues to implement and monitor NBPS’s strategic plan.
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 HSS program.
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 NBPS.
Experience in curriculum development, quantitative data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting with strong focus on data quality and continuous improvement processes.
Proactive problem solver who demonstrates initiative.
Strong work ethic coupled with an enthusiastic and passionate approach to one’s work.
Expertise with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; and in evaluating and learning new computer programs and familiarity with both Mac and PC operating environments.
Bachelor’s degree required.
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.
Meet appropriate DESE Administrator requirements, or ability to do so.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree desired from accredited college or university.

Responsibilities

Participate in the development and evaluation of existing and new curriculum.
Identify and lead a team of administrators and teachers who will assist in curriculum development.
Conduct research and collaborate with faculty and staff in the internalization of curriculum.
Coordinate the evaluation of current curriculum to ensure that programming is meeting intended grade level curriculum standards.
Use evaluations and data to make recommendations for how to improve and edit curricula on an annual basis through the creation of a curriculum revision cycle.
Develop a five year plan of curriculum development including the replacement of outdated materials.
Collaborate to define and execute HSS assessment calendar.
Develop a plan to support assessment administration and data collection for all schools.
Manage implementation and administration of all state, district, and school common assessments.
Partner with school leadership teams to support each school’s 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 school and district 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.
Conduct statistical analysis of student achievement data and school information and maintain HSS data warehouse of all student assessment scores (state, district and school data and others as identified).
Provide timely and clear reports on data analyzed.
Manage the development and design 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).
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.
Serve as the primary contact for all external data requests and provide needed data to Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Principals.
Assist district administrators in preparing and administering reports to comply with federal and state requirements.
Collaborate with Deputy Superintendent and other Office of Instruction 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 Instruction point of contact for building based administration.