Director of Professional Learning K

Frontline Applicant Tracking - Queen Creek Unified District

Director of Professional Learning K– School Year

• Position Type:
  Administration - District
• Date Posted: 2/4/2026
• Location:
  
  District Office

The Director of Professional Learning provides district wide leadership for the design, implementation, and evaluation of high-quality professional learning across all content areas, with a focus on mathematics. This role ensures professional learning is coherent, standards-aligned, and responsive to district instructional priorities. The Director leads and supports professional learning that strengthens educator content knowledge, instructional practices, and assessment literacy, with particular emphasis on effective mathematics instruction, intervention, and student achievement.

Working collaboratively with Teaching and Learning leaders, site administrators, and instructional staff, the Director builds systemwide capacity to improve teaching and learning for all students.

• Valid Arizona Teaching Certificate Required
• School Level Administrative Experience Preferred
• Deep knowledge of research-based mathematics instruction, intervention, and assessment practices
• Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating high-quality professional learning and job-embedded coaching for educators.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with site and district leaders to ensure instructional coherence and consistency across PK-12 systems.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to provide training and support to users of educational technology platforms, with a strong focus on customer service.
• Deep knowledge of Arizona Academic Standards
• Ability and technical skills to retrieve and analyze student data
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Must pass a background clearance.
• Must obtain an Arizona IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card

261 Days; 12 Months

Per QCUSD salary schedule for applicable position

Assistant Superintendent Teaching and Learning

Per District Policy

40 hours per week and may require longer hours - Monday-Friday

Exempt

Responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Lead the design, delivery, and evaluation of professional learning across all content areas (with an emphasis on mathematics), ensuring alignment to district curriculum, instructional frameworks, and strategic goals.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive PK-12 professional learning plan that promotes coherence, consistency, and continuous improvement across schools.
• Expand and oversee a robust coaching model that increases capacity from a small district team to 6 site- and district-based mathematics coaches, ensuring daily, job-embedded instructional support for teachers.
• Establish clear coaching roles, expectations, and accountability measures to ensure consistency, effectiveness, and alignment to district math goals.
• Support the development of math coaches, interventionists, and instructional leaders through ongoing training, calibration, and performance monitoring.
• Provide leadership for mathematics professional learning as a district priority, strengthening educator content knowledge, instructional practices, and assessment literacy across grade levels.
• Ensure mathematics professional learning reflects research-based practices that promote conceptual understanding, problem-solving, mathematical discourse, and access to rigorous instruction.
• Instructional Coherence and Consistency
• Ensure professional learning and coaching practices reinforce district-adopted curriculum, instructional frameworks, and assessment systems.
• Collaborate with Elementary and Secondary Teaching and Learning Coordinators to maintain coherence across PK-12 systems.
• Provide job-embedded modeling, co-planning, and coaching to teachers, instructional coaches, and interventionists across content areas, with targeted support in mathematics instruction and intervention.
• Build the capacity of site and district leaders to support high-quality mathematics teaching and learning.
• Collaborate with Elementary and Secondary Teaching and Learning Coordinators to ensure professional learning is coherent and consistent across schools and grade spans.
• Partner with curriculum, assessment, and instructional teams to align professional learning with adopted materials, assessments, and instructional expectations in all content areas, with emphasis on mathematics.
• Use student achievement data, instructional data, and educator feedback to design, adjust, and evaluate professional learning across content areas.
• Support educators in using formative and summative assessment data to inform instruction and intervention, particularly in mathematics.
• Stays informed on emerging technologies, best practices, and educational trends. Evaluates new tools and pilots innovative…