CEO of Dekalb Agriculture Technology & Environment; DATE Academy

DeKalb Agriculture Technology & Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.)

About DeKalb Agriculture Technology & Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.)

DeKalb Agriculture Technology & Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.) is an award winning, local and state celebrated public charter school, outside of Atlanta, Georgia. With over 770 students in Stone Mountain, Georgia, this k-8 charter school is ranked by U.S. News as being in the top 10 and 11 of Georgia Elementary and Middle Charter Schools. With its robust curriculum and integration of Environment, Agriculture, and Technology;

D.A.T.E. continues to be the only educational model of its kind in the southeastern region, outperforming its local district and state on mandated assessments.

The mission of the DeKalb Agriculture Technology & Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.) is to educate a student population about the essential needs to consider environmental, agricultural, and technological ramifications to improve conditions and other business decisions; via a hands‑on, community‑oriented instructional curriculum. This STEAM Academy is unique in that it is the only academy in Georgia, to have a Triple Integration Approach to education:
Environmental, Agricultural, and Technological Sciences, our (EAT) model for K-8 scholars.

For 20 years, the school’s mission supports the legislative intent to increase student achievement through academic and organizational innovation of its curriculum. By linking Georgia’s content standards within depth information about agriculture, technology, and the environment, the purposeful intent is to demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of education overall, boost enthusiasm for learning, decrease discipline and attendance problems, and produce students capable of making real‑world decisions, which necessarily implicate dwindling environmental resources.

Our Vision of, “Engaging Hands on with Minds On”, with the implementation of Environment, Agriculture, and Technology provides Relevance, Relationships and Rigor for the learning ecosystems purposed for our scholars, faculty and staff, and stakeholders. Present and past parents, members of the community, and other interested parties, have had a long‑standing history of being heavily involved with the creation of this school, since 2004, and have continued to be extensively involved in the subsequent renewal processes, task forces, and surveys.

The charter schools’ students, governing board, faculty, and staff does indeed reflect the socioeconomic diversity of the community it serves in by the charter school. D.A.T.E. services a large student percentage of African Americans at 91.3%, Hispanic students at 6%, American/Alaskan Native at .03%, Asian/ Pacific Islander at 1.4% and students of Two or More Races at 1.3%. While the school is in one of the largest counties, DeKalb, the school is fixed in Stone Mountain, Georgia;

and we are blocks away from a very diverse city, Clarkston. With Stone Mountain having a total demographic of close to 80% African Americans and 1.3% of Two or More Races; and Clarkston having close to a total 71% African Americans, 12.31% Asian, 11.82% White, the academy meets the diversity description of inclusiveness. D.A.T.E. continues to surpass the two cities with Native American population totals by having almost 7% during its charter tenure, affirming the academy’s goal in maintaining its diversity on the levels of socio‑economic, as well as, its gender, and intellectual abilities.

Qualifications

Minimum of a Doctor’s degree; extensive business/managerial experience; minimum three years’ experience in an educational position or equivalent; superior written and oral communications skills; well respected as a community leader; exemplary human relations skills; and experience with at least one of the Academy’s Foci Areas:
Technology, Environment, Agriculture.

Summary

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DeKalb Agriculture Technology & Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.) serves as the chief administrator of the school, responsible for the overall management and strategic leadership of the institution. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, the CEO is tasked with…