School Improvement Specialist (HS

General Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of the position include: overseeing the intervention, remediation, and tutorial activities at the school site; serving as the School Test Coordinator (STC); analyzing assessment data as it relates to the school, to individual student achievement and to the improvement of instruction; and serving as a member of the school’s Plan for Continuous Improvement Leadership Team. The School Improvement Specialist (SIS) reports to the principal;

however, the job responsibilities and duties are defined by the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer and the Chief Academic Officer.

• Plan and coordinate school intervention, remediation, and tutorial programs/classes.
• Identify appropriate remediation services and students eligible for such services.
• Communicate with parents.
• Schedule intervention, remediation, and tutorial activities.
• Maintain all necessary and appropriate records.
• Obtain tutors for services and secure substitutes for absent tutors.
• Review and track attendance and academic progress of students being served in remediation, intervention and tutorial programs to determine progress and the need for adjustments.
• Serve as the School Test Coordinator for all national and state assessment programs.
• Coordinate and implement building-run-level testing procedures and protocols for national and state testing, and for local testing as applicable.
• Conduct procedural training for all school test examiners and proctors.
• Prepare all necessary orders for testing materials.
• Maintain security of testing materials while materials are in the building.
• Count, distribute, collect and package testing materials.
• Assist administrators in reporting irregularities.
• Organize Standards of Learning (SOL) testing for retake students.
• Maintain records of students using substitute tests for SOL verified credits.
• Oversee the distribution of test results.
• Track student SOL failures and test retakes for the SOL assessments and alternate assessments.
• Assist with data collection and data record keeping associated with the Plan for Continuous Improvement, as appropriate.
• Serve as the Southeast Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) contact person.
• Assist with analyzing assessment data as it relates to the school, to individual student achievement and to the improvement of instruction.
• Review assessment data with teachers, individually and with departments.
• Conduct parent, teacher, and student information sessions concerning testing, remediation, and tutorial programs/classes.
• Attend, as necessary and appropriate, training sessions and site meetings related to assigned responsibilities.
• Serve as a liaison between the school administration and central office administration and the school administration and teachers, students and parents for areas identified as assigned responsibilities and essential functions.

• Plan and coordinate school intervention, remediation, and tutorial programs/classes.
• Identify appropriate remediation services and students eligible for such services.
• Communicate with parents.
• Schedule intervention, remediation, and tutorial activities.
• Maintain all necessary and appropriate records.
• Obtain tutors for services and secure substitutes for absent tutors.
• Review and track attendance and academic progress of students being served in remediation, intervention and tutorial programs to determine progress and the need for adjustments.
• Serve as the School Test Coordinator for all national and state assessment programs.
• Coordinate and implement building-run-level testing procedures and protocols for national and state testing, and for local testing as applicable.
• Conduct procedural training for all school test examiners and proctors.
• Prepare all necessary orders for testing materials.
• Maintain security of testing materials while materials are in the building.
• Count, distribute, collect and package testing materials.
• Assist administrators in reporting irregularities.
• Organize Standards of Learning (SOL) testing for retake students.
• Maintain records of students using substitute tests for SOL verified credits.
• Oversee the distribution of test results.
• Track student SOL failures and test retakes for the SOL assessments and alternate assessments.
• Assist with data collection and data record keeping associated with the Plan for Continuous Improvement, as appropriate.
• Serve as the Southeast Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) contact person.
• Assist with analyzing assessment data as it relates to the school, to individual student achievement and to the improvement of instruction.
• Review assessment data with teachers, individually and with departments.
• Conduct parent, teacher, and student information sessions concerning testing, remediation, and tutorial programs/classes.
• Attend, as necessary and appropriate, training sessions and site meetings related to assigned responsibilities.
• Serve as a liaison between the school administration and central office administration and the school administration and teachers,…