Neighborhood Charter Schools, Chief Academic & Schools Officer

ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOLS

Neighborhood Charter Schools (NCS) is a public charter school network rooted in Harlem and the Bronx, serving students in an intentionally designed, inclusive learning community. NCS is built on a simple but powerful belief: every child deserves to be known, valued, and supported as their full self. Our schools operate as a true neighborhood model, grounded in deep relationships with families and a commitment to belonging for every student.

What distinguishes NCS is an inclusive by design approach. Classrooms, schedules, and supports are intentionally built to serve autistic students, multilingual learners, students with IEPs, and general education students together. Inclusion is not a program or an add-on—it is the foundation of how our schools function and how students experience learning every day.

As NCS expands from a K–8 network to a K–12 system, the launch of its first high school marks a defining moment for the organization. This next chapter requires greater coherence across schools, clarity around vision and systems, and senior leadership to ensure quality and consistency as the network grows.

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This role marks a new phase of academic leadership at NCS, with responsibility for clarifying and stewarding the organization’s academic and culture vision, codifying the model, and strengthening coherence across schools. The CASO will guide the transition from a strong K–8 foundation to a fully articulated K–12 continuum aligned to the NCS high school vision. In close partnership with school leaders, the CASO will translate vision into practice, build durable systems, and support continuous improvement as the network grows.

As a senior organizational leader, the Chief Academic & Schools Officer also serves as a cultural standard-setter for the network. Grounded in a deep belief in equity for all students, the CASO models NCS’s LIGHT values in practice, sets clear expectations for how leaders work together, and inspires teams to pursue system-wide change in service of students and communities.

• Articulate and steward a clear, shared K–12 vision for learning and student experience, grounded in NCS’s mission, values, and graduate outcomes.
• Set clear expectations for what excellent teaching, meaningful learning, and a strong student culture look like across the network.
• Ensure coherence across academic priorities and student experience—from curriculum and assessment to grading, routines, and expectations—as students move from elementary through high school.
• Ensure inclusive, culturally responsive, and developmentally appropriate practices are embedded in how schools are designed and led, not layered on as separate initiatives.

• Clarify and strengthen the NCS K–8 model so there is a shared understanding of what strong teaching, learning, and student experience look like across schools.
• Ensure K–8 learning experiences consistently prepare students for the academic expectations, independence, and rigor they will encounter in high school.
• Align K–8 practices with the NCS high school vision and graduate outcomes, maintaining coherence in expectations and approach as students progress across grade levels.
• Guide the thoughtful evolution of K–8 practices to strengthen long‑term K–12 readiness, building on what is working while addressing gaps that emerge over time.

• Design and oversee network‑wide academic systems, including curriculum, assessment, grading, and instructional professional learning.
• Establish clear goals, metrics, and monitoring processes for student learning, instructional quality, and school performance.
• Use data and qualitative evidence to identify priorities and drive continuous improvement.
• Build systems that are coherent, scalable, and responsive as the network grows.

• Manage and support school principals as leaders and stewards of the NCS model.
• Lead and develop senior network academic…