Grade Level Lead; SY, Middle School

Purpose

The Grade Level Lead is a teacher leader responsible for fostering a strong adult and student culture, managing grade level teams to ensure they meet their grade-level goals, and building a community around the core values, vision, and mission of Veritas Prep. The Grade Level Lead receives a stipend for additional work outside of their teaching role and hours.

• Plan and facilitate effective weekly grade-level meetings with the culture team, grade level leads, and an Assistant Principal and/or Principal focused on Tier 1 culture systems and Veritas values
• Effectively communicate clear grade-level goals at each meeting
• Ensure space for multiple voices/perspectives at all grade-level meetings while also being transparent about decision-making, leading to concrete decisions, next steps, and progress toward goals
• Model a solutions-oriented mindset when tackling challenging issues and decisions
• Ensure assessment and consideration of preferences, traditions, and requirements (from The Management Center) as it relates to team meetings, workflows, and delegation
• Develop skills around facilitating difficult conversations
• Utilize an anti-racist lens when looking at data to help identify equity strengths and gaps: ensure student data compilations, meetings, and reports provide data for subgroups including but not limited to race, gender, language learners, and students with learning disabilities

• Collaborate with an AP and grade-level team to ensure orientation for staff and students runs smoothly and effectively
• Organize and lead monthly grade-level community meetings or other grade level team events that support and inspire a vision of academic excellence in collaboration with an AP
• Support the Operations Team in organizing and leading in-school family engagement events
• Grow, support, and model the Veritas vision around equity and anti-racism
• Set up brief, regular checkpoints with grade-level team members, ensuring they feel supported, heard, and seen
• Encourage team collaboration around anti-racism and equity work at Veritas using key tools such as the Veritas Anti-racism Standards and the Teaching for Equity Framework from Leading Educators

• Coordinate the grade-level calendar and ensure strong communication with team members around deadlines and important dates
• Leverage the strengths of team members by delegating project-based tasks, monitoring progress, and holding people accountable (i.e. the delegation cycle from The Management Center)
• Collaborate with Operations Team to ensure classrooms have appropriate materials and supplies
• Work closely with the Director of Culture to reset tier 1 systems and procedures throughout the year as needed
• Ensure the grade level data bulletin boards are updated (Attendance/Homework Completion/Honor Roll)
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations to support last-minute coverage needs

• Collaborate with the student success team to review data (referrals, Deanslist data, VIPER den, etc.) and problem-solve regarding grade-level in-class interventions
• Review student, family, and staff surveys to identify strengths, challenges, and next steps to address gaps
• Pull reports from student information systems for the weekly grade-level meeting and add to Grade Level Goals Tracker
  • Attendance
  • Parent Communication Log (contact is 2 weeks or more recent for every family)
  • CV/ Referrals (Deanslist)

• Collaborate with student success, operations, counseling, and the student support team to ensure important message are communicated to the grade level teams
• Ensure timely, appropriate, clear communication with grade-level team members, staff, students, and parents/families about new initiatives, important events, meetings, updates, deadlines, and announcements
• Check in with an AP to debrief grade-level meetings and ensure progress toward grade-level goals
• Check in on key procedures and routines for the grade and how they are aligned to school expectations and share reflections, glows, and grows with team members
• Openness to collaborate/share best meeting practices with Grade…