Secondary Curriculum Manager

Job Description

Position type:
Full time, exempt, 12 Month

• Direct Manager:
  Vice President of Academics
• Direct Reports: N/A
• Key Collaborators:
  • School Leaders
  • Assistant School Leaders
  • Instructional Coaches
  • Teacher Leaders
  • Director of Professional Learning
  • Director of Special Populations
  • Data Team
  • Operations Team

• Leads instructional decision-making within assigned content area and grade span
• Develops regional guidance for curriculum implementation, assessment practices, and instructional priorities such as:
  • Secondary curriculum strategy
  • Graduation pathway alignment
  • Missouri Learning Standards
  • AP Course Audit
  • College Board expectations
  • End-of-Course (EOC) alignment
  • ACT readiness
  • Dual enrollment alignment
  • Vertical coherence 9-12
• Lead curriculum implementation across all core high school content areas, ensuring alignment to Missouri Learning Standards, graduation requirements, AP frameworks, and postsecondary readiness expectations.
• Ensure curriculum, pacing, assessments, and instructional resources prepare students for MAP, End-of-Course Assessments, AP Exams, ACT, and college-level coursework.
• Develop systems that ensure vertical alignment across grades 6-12 while strengthening readiness from middle school into high school.

• Develop and maintain curriculum access systems including unit resources, lesson materials, and intellectual prep supports
• Create and revise pacing guidance aligned to standards, instructional priorities, and assessment timelines
• Support schools in executing curriculum with fidelity while maintaining rigor and grade-level alignment
• Develop and maintain schedules of assessed standards aligned to regional assessment blueprints
• Ensure vertical alignment of standards, instructional practices, and assessment expectations across grade levels
• Support leaders and teachers with lesson internalization, unit unpacking, and student work analysis protocols

• Progress monitoring systems
• Assessment blueprints
• Design and support network-wide Data Driven Instruction (DDI) cycles aligned to student outcomes and priority standards
• Facilitate collaborative scoring and calibration processes to ensure consistent understanding of rigor and proficiency
• Analyze student performance trends and support schools in identifying high-leverage instructional responses

• Curriculum-based assessments
• Interim assessments
• Missouri Assessment Program
• Missouri End-of-Course Assessments
• AP assessments
• ACT readiness benchmarks
• College and career readiness indicators

• Design and facilitate professional learning aligned to regional instructional priorities and content-specific best practices
• Train School Leaders, Assistant School Leaders, instructional coaches, and teachers on curriculum implementation, assessment practices, and instructional strategies
• Support leaders in conducting effective walkthroughs, coaching conversations, and observation feedback cycles
• Build leader and teacher capacity around:
  • AP development
  • Secondary literacy across content
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Scientific inquiry
  • Writing across disciplines
  • Academic discourse
  • Secondary grading practices
• Support the development of school-based systems that reinforce instructional consistency and strong Tier 1 instruction

• Conduct walkthroughs that explicitly monitor:
  • Standards alignment
  • Academic rigor
  • Student discourse
  • College-ready tasks
  • Cognitive demand
  • Literacy across content
  • Evidence-based writing
  • Inquiry
  • Lab instruction
  • Problem solving

• Curriculum & Instructional Coherence
  • Schools consistently implement curriculum and instructional priorities with fidelity across classrooms and grade levels
  • Teachers demonstrate strong lesson internalization and alignment to standards, pacing, and instructional expectations
  • Students consistently engage in grade-level rigorous work aligned to the instructional framework
• Assessment & Data Systems
  • Assessment systems are aligned,…