Director – Data Literacy, Assessment Strategy, and Continuous Improvement

Director Data Literacy, Assessment Strategy, & Continuous Improvement

Position

Reports To:

Executive Director - Analytics, Assessment, Reporting, & Accountability

PC: 24834 Grade 406 Duty Days: 239 Days Salary: $104,398 - $125,781 FLSA Status:
Exempt

Position

Purpose:

Provides strategic leadership for the district's data literacy, assessment strategy, dashboard systems, and continuous improvement functions to ensure that data is actively used to drive decision-making, performance monitoring, and improved student outcomes. Leads the development and implementation of dashboards, data systems, and practices that provide real-time, actionable insights to campuses and central offices and build the capacity of leaders to interpret and act on data within instructional and school improvement cycles.

Oversees the design, development, and implementation of local assessments aligned to the TEKS, the district's instructional framework, and the rigor of state assessments, ensuring assessments produce timely, actionable data that informs instruction. Ensures coherence between data systems, dashboards, and translates complex data into clear, actionable insights that support decision-making and continuous improvement.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provides leadership for the district's data literacy, local assessment strategy, dashboard systems, and continuous improvement functions to ensure alignment between local assessment systems, data use practices, and school improvement efforts.
• Leads the design, development, governance, and continuous improvement of district wide dashboards and data visualization systems that provide real-time visibility into student performance, instructional practices, and campus and district trends, ensuring accessibility and usability for all stakeholders.
• Establishes standards for data visualization, dashboard design, and reporting to ensure clarity, consistency, and usability across all platforms.
• Builds the capacity of school and central office leaders to interpret and use assessment data and dashboards to monitor performance, identify trends, and drive instructional and operational decisions.
• Implements and scales the use of real-time instructional data systems and dashboards that provide district and campus leaders with actionable insights into classroom implementation, Spot Observations, Demonstrations of Learning (DOL), and other leading indicators to support responsive coaching, instructional decision-making, and continuous school improvement.
• Leads the design, development, and continuous improvement of district wide local assessments, including DOLs, interim assessments, and benchmarks aligned to TEKS, the district's instructional framework, and the rigor of STAAR.
• Ensures alignment and coherence between curriculum, instructional planning, and assessment systems through close partnership with Curriculum & Instruction core content teams.
• Establishes systems that ensure local assessments generate immediate, actionable data that informs reteach, acceleration, and student grouping decisions within instructional cycles.
• Directs the implementation and monitoring of school improvement planning and progress monitoring aligned to state and federal accountability requirements.
• Establishes and maintains a high-performance culture characterized by urgency, responsiveness, accountability, customer service, continuous improvement in supporting instructional decision-making and performance outcomes.
• Demonstrates flexibility in scheduling and availability, including extended or adjusted work hours during critical reporting periods, accountability cycles, state submissions, audit activities, and other high-priority deadlines to ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality execution of all deliverables.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Selects, trains, supervises, and evaluates staff, and makes recommendations relative to assignment, retention, discipline, and dismissal.

Personal Work Relationships:

All Fort Worth ISD employees must maintain a commitment to the District's mission, vision, and strategic goals. Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct, and work ethic. Demonstrates high quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer. Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and performs as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.

Other Duties as Assigned:

Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in accordance with Board rules, policies, and regulations. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Knowledge of TEKS, STAAR, and state accountability systems, including alignment, rigor, and performance expectations. Knowledge of assessment design principles, including validity, reliability, alignment, and development of high-quality items and blueprints. Knowledge of…