Job Details
Position Type:
Administration
Date Posted:
5/8/2024
Location:
Garfield Heights Central Office (BOE)
Closing Date:
Until Filled
Position: Supervisor of Teaching and Learning
Reports to: Director of Teaching and Learning
Employment Status: Regular/Full-time (210)
Status: Administrator
Description: Oversee the implementation of all aspects of the K-12 language arts, math, social studies, science and ancillary curriculum areas including curriculum development work, professional development in curricular areas, materials and textbook acquisition, instructional software and utilization. Coordinate curriculum development and implement with building administrators, other coordinators, and building-level content leaders. Support activities also include K-12 testing, development of new programs, special projects, data collection, and twenty-first century learning activities.
NOTE: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance
Essential Functions:
- Serve as facilitator for all curriculum-writing projects
- Responsible for implementing curriculum review and alignment with state academic content standards
- Responsible for the coordination of material review and adoption of K-12
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., test scores, student/personnel information
- Interact positively with staff, students, and parents
- Attend meetings and in-services as required
- Meet regularly with department heads, team leaders, curriculum leaders, and principals to discuss curriculum implementation
- Coordinate/assist in districtwide programs or special projects with a curriculum impact
- Reports to the Director of Teaching and Learning on all curriculum-related projects
- Collect and utilize data for program evaluation, modification, and revision of programs
- Provide continuing professional development programs to assist teachers in the implementation of the curriculum
- ?Perform other duties as assigned
Other Duties and Responsibilities: - Make contacts with the public with tact and diplomacy
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., test scores, student/personnel information
- Interact positively with staff, students, and parents
- Remain current with educational literature and best practices
Qualifications: - Master's degree or equivalent, plus five years administrative experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
- License in educational administration from the State of Ohio
- Alternative to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate?
- Demonstrated knowledge or experience in curriculum development and implementation
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of the Ohio Improvement Process
- Demonstrated knowledge of student learning theories and practice
- Demonstrative experience in the implementation of technology into the instructional program
- Demonstrated knowledge or experience in the administration of federal and state grants
- Knowledge of school finance
- Strong visionary and leadership skills
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- Effective, active listening skills
- Organizational and problem-solving skills
- Computer skills with ability to create data charts and various computer graphics
- Technical writing skills
- Knowledge of and experience in instructional strategies, state/legal requirements relating to instruction and program reporting
About Our District: The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools.
As a product of our community-based strategic planning process completed in 2021, our district's mission is: As the heart of the community, Garfield Heights City Schools fully prepares students to pursue their dreams and give back as engaged citizens and future leaders. Our vision is: to become a premier educational institution, recognized throughout Ohio as fully preparing students to be leaders equipped with real-world skills to contribute to a global society.
The Garfield Heights City School prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k through 12th-grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior.
A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A 'Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels. Students can expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular, and student leadership organizations in this District.
What is Equity? Equity is the collective responsibility of intentionally creating and maintaining a system that ensures opportunity, access, advancement and a sense of belonging for ALL, by:
- Eliminating barriers and unjust structures that obstruct individual successes
- Creating a community of acceptance
- Providing resources to address students' needs
Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.
Application Deadline: Until position has been filled.
To Apply: On-line