Founding Director of Curriculum and Instruction

Founding Director of Curriculum and Instruction

Launch Schools is currently hiring to staff a founding high school option for students of Brooklyn focused on tackling the two greatest challenges of our time– climate change and equity. The Launch High School welcomed its first 9th grade class in Brooklyn, NY in Fall 2025. Launch High School builds on the work of Launch’s middle school, an EL Education school that has operated in Weeksville, Brooklyn for 13 years.

Launch's mission is dedicated to empowering all students to develop the knowledge, skills and character to disrupt inequities in society and build a better world. We believe that students at all levels can be pushed and supported to do more than they think possible.

Launch High School is a transformative, student-centered learning environment that offers one of the most innovative and impactful high school experiences in NYC.

• Competency Based Learning rooted in re Design’s Future9 Competencies
• Personalized Learning that honors student voice, choice and builds their capacity to direct their own learning as they move through high school
• Groundbreaking Learning Ecosystem model design that ensures learning is not limited to the classroom, leveraging community partnerships (including the National Park Service, as well as local non-profit and business partners)

You can learn more about the high school model in our community driven, work-in-progress School Design Blueprint.

We are hiring our founding team to operationalize this ambition vision. We are committed to developing the conditions and an adult culture that makes our school a laboratory of innovation, where growth and development of our staff members is prioritized. We believe that creativity, authenticity and hustle among our founding team are key ingredients to the success of our students in learning in a way that is truly personalized, and that can only be accomplished with comprehensive coaching supports that help our staff be authentically their best.

Please note that this role is for the 26-27 school year.

• Coaching and Development of Instructional Staff
  • Own the quality and coherence of curriculum and instruction across Launch High School, ensuring all students experience rigorous, accessible, and competency-aligned learning.
  • Supervise a portfolio of teachers, establishing clear expectations and supporting ongoing professional growth through observation, feedback, and coaching systems, including regular classroom observations, high‑quality written and verbal feedback, and follow‑up coaching cycles.
  • Set, articulate, and continuously refine an equity‑driven vision for instructional coaching at Launch High School, ensuring coaching practices advance rigorous, culturally responsive, and accessible instruction.
  • Lead the development and execution of team level inquiry cycles aligned to school wide workplan goals, leveraging student data, observation evidence, coaching cycles, and feedback to drive instructional improvement.
  • Facilitate and lead instructional team meetings, including department, grade‑level, and cross‑disciplinary teams that builds instructional skill, drives alignment and shared practices, and promotes collective responsibility for student outcomes.
• Fostering a positive Academic Culture School wide
  • Develop a work culture of cooperation, positive attitudes, and teamwork, where all staff are motivated to perform with excellence and continually improve.
  • Design, foster, maintain, and protect a culture of student voice and choice, where heads, hearts, and hands are engaged in interdisciplinary project‑based learning.
  • Ensure staff are prepared to operationalize the model outlined in the Launch High School Design Blueprint, and convicted in the vision that it supports and the impact it will have on the community.
  • Build staff capacity around mindsets in ensuring academics are both rigorous and accessible for all learners.
• Academic Administration
  • Own and oversee Launch High School’s curriculum, assessment systems, data‑based…