Job Description:
Site Director - Georgia Teaching Fellows
Atlanta, Georgia
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) strives to end the injustice of educational inequality by providing excellent teachers to the students who need them most and by advancing policies and practices that ensure effective teaching in every classroom. A national nonprofit organization founded by teachers, TNTP is driven by the knowledge that effective teachers have a greater impact on student achievement than any other school factor. In response, TNTP develops customized programs and policy interventions that enable education leaders to find, develop and keep great teachers. Since its inception in 1997, TNTP has recruited or trained approximately 43,000 teachers and worked with more than 200 districts in 31 states - benefiting an estimated 7 million students. Meanwhile, TNTP's acclaimed studies of the policies and practices that affect the quality of the teacher workforce -- most recently including The Widget Effect (2009) and Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (2010) -- have influenced federal education policy and inspired reform efforts across the country.
TNTP is active in more than 25 cities, including 10 of the nation's 15 largest.
We are currently seeking a Site Director for our Georgia Teaching Fellows Program in Atlanta, Georgia. This position will be based in the program office in Atlanta, GA. Note that TNTP may provide a relocation stipend to help defer the cost of moving. This position is available immediately.
New Teacher Effectiveness
TNTP’s New Teacher Effectiveness Group is responsible for recruiting great teachers to teach in high-need schools and subject areas, and for preparing those teachers to be immediately effective in the classroom. TNTP’s Teaching Fellows programs streamline the path to teaching for accomplished career changers and recent graduates. In 2011, TNTP will recruit, select and provide training to outstanding teachers in more than 20 cities and 18 states. In 9 of those states and the District of Columbia, TNTP is also approved to recommend teachers for certification through our rigorous, relevant preparation model, which has been shown to produce highly effective teachers. Building on this strong track record, TNTP is pioneering an evaluation program to recommend certification only for teachers who demonstrate their ability to advance student learning.
The Program
In Georgia, The New Teacher Project has launched the Georgia Teaching Fellows (GTF) program to attract, train, develop and certify high quality individuals for partner school districts in/around Augusta and Columbus. This fall, we launch an additional cohort in/around Atlanta. Georgia Teaching Fellows recruits outstanding recent college graduates and mid-career changers to commit to teaching in the state’s most high-need public schools. After a rigorous pre-service training institute, Fellows will be prepared to assume full-time teaching positions in the fall of 2012.
Individuals selected into GTF participate in our comprehensive teacher certification program. All Fellows participate in a rigorous summer training institute with a classroom based component, in which they learn how to be effective teachers in high-need schools through a focus on instructional design and delivery and classroom management and culture. During the school year, GTF coordinates a 16-session seminar series, Teaching for Results, and other program administration activities as Fellows work toward their certification. Teaching for Results is designed to ensure participants are prepared to close the achievement gap by emphasizing proven approaches to improving student outcomes.
Fellows will earn certification by completing TNTP’s Teaching for Results seminar series during their first year in the classroom and by completing our Assessment of Classroom Effectiveness (ACE) screen. Our program is distinguished from other alternative route programs by the quality of its pre-service training and year-long professional development program, as well as our focus on making certification decisions based on performance in the classroom and ability to impact student achievement.
Role and Responsibilities
The Site Director is responsible for meeting the regional Georgia Teaching Fellows program goals relating to the following areas: participant recruitment, selection, operations and communications, district hiring, certification and client satisfaction. The Atlanta Site Director will launch the regional program in Atlanta, hiring and managing a team consisting of a Training and Instruction Manager and a Senior Program Operations Manager. The Site Director will report to the Georgia Teaching Fellows Partner, who will support all GTF program sites.
Specific responsibilities include:
· Provide key leadership to site-based staff in order to meet site goals and implement a high quality program
· Build effective relationships with district leaders, school administrators, and other key stakeholders within the community to meet the staffing and certification needs of the local district
· Create management tools to monitor operations compliance, project progress and report program effectiveness to both Georgia Teaching Fellows staff and local district staff
· Make data-driven decisions that advance both the program and TNTP’s organizational knowledge
· Generate innovative solutions to program challenges
· Ensure excellent communication systems among internal Georgia Teaching Fellows staff and between GTF staff, Fellows and participating school districts
· Implement recruitment strategies that attract high-quality alternate-route teachers from diverse backgrounds to apply to teach in district schools
· Manage the Training and Instruction Manager, who oversees effective summer and school-year faculty staffing to ensure the delivery of a high quality pre-service training institute and Teaching for Results seminars
· Ensure high quality teacher performance and student achievement data collection during training institute and during the school year in order to understand Fellows’ effectiveness in raising student achievement
· Manage the Senior Program Operations Manager who oversees recruitment efforts, implements the rigorous selection process to ensure that individuals accepted into the program meet our high-quality standards, and managers all administrative processes that include, but are not limited to, enrollment in GTF, course attendance, tracking of program requirements, communicating with principals, and recommendation to the state for licensure
· Manage the district hiring process, including the design and implementation of effective strategies to match individuals with schools in the district where they will fill high-need vacancies and receive on-site support
· Represent the GTF program and local district at site events including information sessions, selection events, test prep sessions, enrollment events, etc.
· Participate in/co-lead the trainings of select part-time and seasonal staff – to include but not limited to Selector training, Fellow Advisor Training and Seminar Leader training
· Establish and build relationships with the Office of Accountability in an effort to secure student achievement data for program participants
· Work with TNTP’s Teacher Effectiveness central team to assess participants’ demonstrated effectiveness through student achievement, principal survey, and program completion data
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