# Director of Academics

**Company**: ACCEL Schools
**Location**: Dayton, OH
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,000 - 70,000
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

ACCEL Schools is seeking a highly motivated Director of Academics in Dayton, Ohio dedicated to creating a rigorous and nurturing environment that prioritizes student engagement and achievement for all students.

Montgomery Preparatory Academy, located in a historic school building within the Belmont community, is a public charter school serving EK-8 students. The school offers a well-rounded program emphasizing character education & Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).

**Responsibilities:**

- Assume ownership and responsibility for developing and supporting the school's instructional staff.

- Guide teachers in the effective use of instructional and support materials for full implementation of all areas of the curriculum.

- Guide teachers in adapting materials and methods across the curriculum to the needs of individual students, using multiple appropriate differentiation strategies.

- Review lesson plans weekly.

- Perform frequent teacher observations and debriefs.

- Model effective instructional practices, including delivery of instruction using effective teaching strategies.

- Provide effective feedback, professional development and coaching for teachers in mastering instructional practices.

- Offer continuous and targeted professional development that directly supports the school curriculum and instruction that ensures continuous student achievement of the school's academic standards.

- Use multiple sources of data collection to analyze barriers to student achievement and to access, identify and apply to instructional improvement.

- Monitor the use of student achievement data from multiple sources to inform instruction.

- Provide support for intervention programs based on students' needs and monitor program effectiveness based on data.

- Work cooperatively with parents to generate parents' confidence in the teacher and instructional program.

- Coordinate special projects, such as peer mentoring, service learning and community involvement.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in education, Master's preferred.

- Active professional teacher certification.

- Minimum of five years' experience as a successful teacher.

- Two years' experience as an Instructional Coach, Teacher Leader, or other related position strongly preferred.

- Track record of building positive working relationships with multiple stakeholders.

- Demonstrated results in increasing student achievement on relevant state test measures.

- Knowledge of State Standards and Common Core Standards.

- Experience using multiple sources of data collection.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Computer literacy and proficiency.

- Attention to detail.

- Successful completion of federal and state criminal background checks.

**Benefits:**

- Salary range: $65,000 - 70,000.

- Paid time off.

- Retirement contributions.

- Optional Basic Life and AD&D insurance.

- Voluntary life insurance.

- Discounted childcare.

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- Employee Assistance Program.

- Voluntary short-term disability insurance.

- Voluntary long-term disability insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- instructional design
- curriculum development
- teacher coaching
- data analysis
- communication

### Nice to have
- instructional leadership
- school turnaround
- urban education
- special education

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