Master Teacher - MSA West Elementary Academy

Master Teacher

Qualifications:

Valid Louisiana Teaching certificate, Master's Degree preferred, minimum of 5 documented years of successful teaching, physical and mental stamina and ability to perform job functions, tasks and duties.

Reports To:

School Principal/Academy Director

Terms Of Employment: 10 Month

Pay Factor: 1.111

Job Goal:
To assist and support the school principal in providing vision, culture, and instructional leadership that efficiently and effectively results in increased student achievement.

1. School Mission, Vision, & Strategic Goal Setting:

• 1.1. Goal-Setting and Monitoring:
• Establishes rigorous and obtainable data-driven goals and comprehensive action plans to ensure achievement.
• Disaggregates current and relevant data in depth in order to create, support, and monitor school goals.
• Strategically uses current and relevant student data to impact significant student achievement.
• Plans, implements, supports, monitors and/or evaluates/refines action steps, including acceleration and interventions.
• Systematically enlists teachers to analyze student data and student work to monitor attainment of goals, and to guide and inform instruction.
• 1.2. Communication of Mission, Vision, and Goals:
• Establishes and communicates a school mission and vision that drives instruction and school activities.
• Communicates the mission, vision, and goals of the school with staff members, students, families, and other stakeholders.
• Invests teachers, students, and stakeholders in contributing to the school vision in order to reach established goals.
• 1.3. Expectations:
• Advocates for the best interests and needs of all students to ensure student achievement.
• Establishes high standards for students, teachers, and staff members.
• Models expectations and creates opportunities for students, teachers, and staff to establish high and demanding expectations.

2. Instructional Leadership:

• 2.1. Curriculum and Assessment:
• Develops all teachers' abilities to effectively utilize established school wide instructional plans where high-quality instructional materials are consistent with school wide goals.
• Develops teachers to set clear, measurable objectives aligned to the depth and rigor of the state standards.
• Develops teachers to utilize systems where teachers analyze formative and summative data to monitor and systematically adjust teaching and learning as needed to meet student achievement goals and increase their proficiency.
• Plans and monitors professional learning to ensure that teachers grow in the areas of curriculum, assessment, and instructional practices.
• Utilizes existing structures (e.g. TC, ILT) to strategically engage in conversations about assessments and student progress.
• 2.2. Teacher Effectiveness:
• Develops and organizes a leadership team's (e.g. ILT) ability to utilize a school wide evaluation system and coaching plans to increase teacher effectiveness.
• Develops and supports a leadership team's ability to evaluate teaching and learning through current and relevant student data.
• Develops and supports a leadership team's ability to provide evidence from the observed lesson that connects to an overall area of strength, an area of growth, and a specific recommendation for the next steps.
• Develops and supports a leadership team's ability to use teacher and student data gathered through observations to determine what development activities or instructional strategies will best meet the needs of each teacher to improve overall teacher effectiveness.
• Develops, organizes, and supports a system that ensures teachers receive a differentiated targeted coaching plan based on classroom evaluations.
• Strategically develops, organizes, and supports opportunities for teachers to implement learning in different ways and ensures teacher ownership of new learning.
• Organizes and supports opportunities where teachers work and plan together to impact student achievement.
• 2.3. Meeting Student Needs:
• Develops teachers' abilities to utilize data to identify students in need of intervention, acceleration, extension, or other additional supports.
• Creates and implements a systematic monitoring process where all educators…