Senior Associate Commissioner District and School Assistance

Position Summary

The Senior Associate Commissioner of District and School Assistance will be responsible for the overall management and strategy related to the improvement of persistently low-performing schools in the commonwealth. The position is a senior level position, serving on cabinet, and reporting to Deputy Commissioner Lauren Woo.

The position oversees the Commissioner’s Accelerating Achievement Initiative, a new school improvement support initiative targeting a set of selected low-performing schools. To facilitate more sustained improvement in these schools the office will develop and implement a more rigorous approach to improvement planning in these schools and a refined support and assistance model.

• Engage these schools in a planning process that is tightly aligned to a framework for school improvement, anchored in the Department’s decades of research on successful school improvement practices.
• Support the schools in undertaking a multi-year improvement planning and implementation process.
• Incubate and incentivize innovative models and programs to support academic achievement and school improvement.