Director of School Design

Director of School Design SY26

The Director of School Design is an embedded experienced leader who partners directly with a schools Executive Director EDsite leadership team and Senior Director of Innovation to redesign the student adult and operational experience of the school The Director leads a multi year transformation plan aligned to Summits Future Ready School vision ensuring that design decisions are community rooted evidence informed operationally feasible and implemented with fidelity The Director of School Design owns deep sustained design piloting and implementation at one site They report to the Senior Director of Innovation and serve as a cross functional bridge between Marshall Innovation and the school site team Who We Are What if all students graduated high school with the knowledge skills and habits they need to lead a fulfilled life This is the question that guides our mission at Summit Public Schools To collectively prepare a diverse community of young people with the skills knowledge and habits to attain economic empowerment and success in a chosen concrete next step toward a fulfilled life We operate 10 schools serving over 3300 students in the Bay Area and Washington state 100 of Summit graduates are college ready and Summit graduates complete college at double the national average We need exceptional diverse and mission aligned teachers to join our team to help prepare our students for a fulfilled life Join us

What Youll Do School Redesign Leadership Co lead with the Senior Director of Innovation and the site ED a multi year redesign and turnaround strategy for the school in alignment to the Future Ready School Model Diagnose root challenges and opportunities in culture instruction scheduletime student supports and operations; translate these into a sequenced transformation plan Facilitate site based design cycles with educators students families and community partners Ensure the schools redesign remains coherent realistic and measurable and is integrated into day to day school leadership priorities Model a learn fast build smart mindsetkeeping urgency high while maintaining trust and collaboration Community Engagement & Co Design Engage a diverse set of stakeholdersstudents families educators alumni and community partners to surface aspirations concerns and local context that must shape the redesign Design and facilitate inclusive well run community learning sessions listening tours design charrettes town halls student focus groups caregiver convenings that build shared ownership for change Translate community input into clear design requirements tradeoffs and priorities for the three year turnaround plan Build and sustain partnerships with local organizations and employers that can power real world learning internships and community anchored projects Ensure engagement practices are culturally responsive accessible and transparent with feedback loops that show stakeholders how their input influenced decisions Embedded Pilot Design & Implementation Design and run site based pilots that test key components of Summit 30 within the school context eg flexible time AI enabled tools real world learning structures assessmentcredit innovations Define success metrics tied to student outcomes and school health;

monitor progress and adapt quickly Partner with teachers and school leadership to plan launch and refine pilots; remove barriers and provide hands on implementation support Produce mid year and end of year learning summaries for the Studio and site leadership Change Management & Capacity Building Support adult learning and change management to ensure that new practices are understood owned and sustained by school staff Build internal leadership capacity by coaching teacher leaders and administrators through redesign decisions and implementation Support hiring onboarding and role realignment at the site as needed to enable the redesigned model Help establish the schools culture and operating rhythms required for long term sustainability Cross Functional Bridge to Marshall Innovation Serve as the primary conduit between the school site and the Marshall Innovation ensuring tight alignment to the multi year roadmap Document design choices promising practices and implementation lessons Communicate to capture site level stories artifacts and evidence for internal external learning Inform network wide codification and scaling with grounded insights from site implementation Who You Are Key Qualities & Skills Deep belief in Summits mission and in the need to transform public high schools for a future ready world Strong school design and systems thinking skillset you can see the whole school as an interconnected system and redesign it accordingly Expert at translating vision into practical implementation with a bias toward action and iteration Highly collaborative and comfortable leading without formal authority in a shared power environment Skilled facilitator who can bring diverse stakeholders…