STEM Prepatory Academy

As one of the Academic Deans, you will be charged with the development of highly effective teachers to ensure our students master rigorous grade level content and exceed the performance of their peers at the local, state, and national levels. An Academic Dean is responsible for driving student results through instructional coaching of teachers and the design and facilitation of high quality professional development. The Dean conducts classroom observations, provides feedback aligned to content and school expectations, and supports high quality instructional planning through the Intellectual Prep Protocol and Data-Driven Practice Protocols. The Dean maintains a content data dashboard to measure weekly, quarterly, and annual performance target achievement, responding swiftly to emergent strengths and needs. As a member of the school leadership team, the Academic Dean drives schoolwide adult and student culture through leadership. The Dean ensures all classrooms under his/her/their purview exemplify the STEM Prep mission and vision, align to the schoolwide cultural expectations and systems, and uphold a rigorous academic culture supportive of student learning and growth. In the leadership of adults, the Academic Dean responds effectively to support our “all students” beliefs and models the educator actions that drive culture and ultimately student actions and outcomes. As a leader among leaders, the Dean partners effectively with teammates in pursuit of goals and performance targets. Among leaders and teachers, the Academic Dean fosters a strong culture of inclusiveness, joy, and learning.

As the Academic Dean of ELA, you will be coaching the English teachers at the middle school to ensure student success. There are eight English teachers at our middle school. Our English department uses the Achievement First curriculum for instruction. You will also be working alongside all other leadership team members in creating a positive learning culture across the school.

Who You Are:

• You were the outlier teacher, the one who got unprecedented academic results and built the strongest student relationships in the building.
• You are a data geek. You examine teacher and student data every day, motivated in equal parts by the gaps yet to be closed and the mastery already attained. Your relationship with your teachers is rooted in student-success. Every coaching conversation is rooted in the data.
• Your expectations are high (for yourself and others). You know that in order for students to be held to high expectations, teachers and leaders must be as well.
• You probably have experience working with English Learners (ELs) (over 80% of our network comes from a Non-English Language Background). Maybe you come from a Non-English Language Background yourself. But if you don’t have this experience, you are a fit if you fully believe our country’s ELs can and will achieve, and that it’s our honor and responsibility to ensure they do.
• You are a teammate through and through. Maybe you weren’t picked first in gym class for kickball, but you’re picked first these days because you consistently assume the best of others, follow through on obligations and promises, and are the first one to offer to cover your sick teammate’s lunch duty.
• You are seeking a feedback culture - a place where you can grow fast.
• When faced with a challenge, your default is to be solutions-oriented.
• You are in this for the long-haul, feel called to work with this specific community, at this specific school. Our kids deserve consistency, and you are committed to providing that for them.
• You’ve always been a leader. Maybe you’re the steady and vibrant leader who leads by example or maybe you’re the precocious leader who is always the first to share. Either way, when you talk, people listen.
• You know every classroom should be warm, highly structured, and safe: each student deserves to know exactly what is expected of them at all times, and they model with peers the care their teacher enacts.
• You seek to partner with the parents of every student because you know that collaboration is vital to the success of this work.

STEM Prep Academy believes it is critical for our staff - teachers and leaders to reflect the communities that they serve. We actively support equal opportunity for all people. As such, we strongly encourage People of Color, Women, LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals, Individuals with Disabilities, First Generation College Graduates, and all other groups that have been historically marginalized to apply to become a member of the STEM Team. STEM Prep does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.