Classical Schools Superintendent

At Choice Schools Associates, we believe every child deserves an exceptional education and every school deserves exceptional leadership. Our Superintendents are central to fulfilling that promise.

Choice Schools Associates is seeking an experienced, mission-driven Classical Schools Superintendent to lead and support a portfolio of classical charter schools throughout Michigan.

The Classical Schools Superintendent is responsible for helping each academy faithfully carry out its unique mission while advancing the principles and practices of a classical education. This leader will work closely with school leaders, academy boards, authorize rs, and the Choice Schools team to cultivate schools characterized by academic excellence, strong character, knowledgeable teachers, effective leadership, and an orderly and purposeful school culture.

This is not simply an oversight position. We are seeking a leader who understands that a classical school must be intentionally led and carefully cultivated. The Superintendent will develop school leaders, strengthen instructional practices, protect fidelity to the classical model, solve complex challenges, and ensure each school has the leadership, systems, resources, and support necessary to thrive.

The Classical Schools Superintendent will also serve as a key member of the Choice Schools leadership team, helping shape organizational strategy and strengthening Choice Schools' growing portfolio of classical academies.

• Serve as a strong advocate and steward of each academy's classical mission, vision, and educational philosophy.
• Ensure school leaders understand and faithfully implement the principles of a classical education.
• Promote an education grounded in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty and designed to develop knowledgeable, thoughtful, and virtuous citizens.
• Support schools in cultivating students' intellectual abilities, moral character, personal responsibility, and appreciation for the Western intellectual and cultural tradition.
• Ensure the school's curriculum, instruction, culture, policies, and practices remain aligned with its classical mission and Board-approved educational model.
• Develop a deep understanding of the curriculum and instructional approach utilized by each academy and help leaders maintain appropriate fidelity to those models.
• Build strong relationships with classical education partners and remain knowledgeable about best practices and developments within the classical education movement.

• Coach, mentor, supervise, and evaluate assigned school leaders.
• Develop leaders who understand that the school leader is both an instructional leader and a steward of the school's mission and culture.
• Strengthen school leaders' understanding of classical education, curriculum, pedagogy, school culture, and leadership.
• Develop school leaders who confidently make decisions, solve problems, communicate expectations, and lead their teams.
• Help school leaders build strong leadership teams and develop teachers and future leaders from within their schools.
• Establish clear expectations and accountability while providing leaders with the coaching, resources, and support necessary to succeed.
• Foster a culture of humility, professional growth, thoughtful reflection, open communication, and continuous improvement.
• Support leaders through difficult employee, student, family, and organizational situations while ensuring decisions remain consistent with the school's mission and values.

• Ensure schools provide a content-rich, academically rigorous classical education and make meaningful progress toward academic goals and charter expectations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of each school's curriculum, instructional model, academic programs, assessments, and student achievement data.
• Work with school leaders and academic teams to strengthen classroom instruction while maintaining fidelity to the school's classical educational model.
• Promote strong teacher content knowledge, effective classroom instruction, thoughtful questioning, meaningful discussion, and high expectations for student learning.
• Support schools in developing students who can read carefully, write clearly, reason thoughtfully, communicate effectively, and engage seriously with important ideas.
• Ensure effective academic and behavioral Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) are in…