Assistant Superintendent of Learning

Instructional Vision and District Leadership

• Advise the Superintendent related to teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, professional development, and academic improvement.
• Translate the District’s mission, strategic priorities, and Board goals into a clear, coherent instructional vision and actionable multiyear plans.
• Serve as an active member of the Superintendent’s Cabinet and contribute to Districtwide planning, decision-making, communication, and problem-solving.
• Build shared ownership of instructional priorities by engaging administrators, educators, staff, families, and community partners.
• Monitor educational research, emerging practices, legislation, and state and federal requirements; recommend responsible changes that support student learning.
• Serve as a member of the D181 Foundation, attend meetings and events.

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

• Lead the design, review, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of a guaranteed and viable PreK–8 curriculum aligned with Illinois Learning Standards and District expectations.
• Ensure vertical and horizontal curriculum articulation across grade levels, schools, content areas, and student transitions.
• Establish clear expectations for high-quality, evidence-based instruction that promotes critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, and student agency.
• Oversee a balanced assessment system that includes classroom, common, diagnostic, interim, and state measures used appropriately to improve teaching and learning.
• Guide the review, selection, implementation, and evaluation of instructional materials, digital resources, programs, and educational technology in partnership with relevant departments.
• Coordinate academic programming for advanced learning, intervention, multilingual learners, and early childhood in collaboration with the administrators responsible for those areas.
• Ensure that curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional learning reflect high expectations and meaningful access for every student.
• Identify and address opportunity or achievement gaps through responsive programming, resource allocation, and progress monitoring.
• Collaborate with Student Services and building teams to support differentiated instruction, intervention systems, and compliance with student plans.

Data-Informed Continuous Improvement

• Establish systems and routines for analyzing multiple measures of student learning, opportunity, engagement, and program effectiveness.
• Support principals and instructional teams in identifying strengths, determining root causes, setting measurable goals, implementing strategies, and monitoring impact.
• Evaluate instructional initiatives and recommend whether programs should be sustained, revised, expanded, or discontinued.
• Prepare clear reports and presentations for the Superintendent, Board of Education, staff, and community regarding student learning and District improvement efforts.

Professional Learning and Leadership Development

• Develop and oversee a comprehensive professional learning system aligned with District goals, educator needs, student outcomes, and adult-learning principles.
• Provide coaching, guidance, and professional learning to principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and other staff.
• Partner with Human Resources and building administrators to strengthen recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, evaluation, retention, and leadership-pipeline efforts connected to instructional excellence.
• Cultivate professional learning communities that use collaboration, inquiry, evidence, and reflection to improve practice.
• Promote innovation while ensuring that new practices are purposeful, well-supported, fiscally responsible, and evaluated for impact.

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