# Director of Academics

**Company**: ACCEL Schools
**Location**: Montgomery Preparatory Academy
**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

- Review lesson plans weekly and perform frequent teacher observations and debriefs

- Model effective instructional practices and provide effective feedback, professional development, and coaching for teachers

- 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
- data analysis
- communication
- teaching
- leadership

### Nice to have
- Instructional Coach
- Teacher Leader
- urban education
- school turnaround

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