Director of School Design

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The Director of School Design is an embedded experienced leader who partners directly with a school’s Executive Director (ED),site 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 Summit’s 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.

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 3,300 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!

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, schedule/time, 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 school’s redesign remains coherent, realistic, and measurable and is integrated into day-to-day school leadership priorities.

Model a “learn fast, build smart” mindset—keeping urgency high while maintaining trust and collaboration.

Engage a diverse set of stakeholders—students, 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.

Design and run site-based pilots that test key components of Summit 3.0 within the school context (e.g., flexible time, AI-enabled tools, real-world learning structures, assessment/credit 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.

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.

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