Dean of Instruction

Overview

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Ignite Community Schools is a nonprofit, public charter school network that prepares students in educationally underserved communities for college success. Ignite provides a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum, outstanding educators, more time in class, a strong culture of achievement, extracurricular activities, and support to help our students make significant academic gains.

Our mission at Ignite Community Schools is to empower economically disadvantaged children to create the opportunities they deserve. Despite their lack of access to purposeful instruction, we’re committed to helping prove what’s possible for public school students across Texas. With families and communities, Ignite will foster a joyful academic experience that empowers scholars with the skills and confidence to become change agents in our society and build a better world.

Our Core Values: integrity, resilience, courage, equity, love for learning, and intentional urgency. We read for life.

Role Vision
Ignite Community School Deans of Instruction report to their assigned Campus Director. Our Principals provide leadership, direction, supervision, and accountability for the delegated campus and its programs. Ignite Principals are instructional leaders who coach and develop teachers and lead team members at their schools to achieve ambitious goals with our scholars. They provide instructional leadership and develop and implement curriculum and programming with urgency.

Principals are solution-oriented and creative problem solvers with experience in data analysis and creating and managing systems, setting high expectations and communicating with various stakeholders, and effectively interacting with people across cultures.

• Academic Excellence: maintain goals such as 90 or above for Academic Performance, Student Growth, or Relative Performance from the Texas Education Agency; 90 or above for Closing the Gaps from TEA.
• Ensure individual student growth plans to ensure that all scholars show individual academic growth.
• Provide individualized and differentiated instruction to Emergent Bilingual and Special Education scholars.
• Develop staff knowledge in instructional design and alignment to academic standards; build teachers’ understanding of what students must know and be able to do, and what instructional methods drive mastery.
• Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment; train teachers to provide rigorous, high-quality instruction using Teach Like a Champion and Get Better Faster frameworks.
• Lead data analysis and develop teachers’ ability to analyze student data to identify strategies moving students toward mastery.
• Regularly observe and coach instructional leaders to provide high-impact, actionable feedback weekly.
• Facilitate collaboration in content teams; ensure data-driven instruction and adjustments.
• Lead whole-school professional development to drive high-impact improvements in teacher practice.
• Evaluate lesson plans and provide feedback to ensure quality instruction; conduct ongoing data conversations; make school-wide data-driven decisions.
• Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Schools.

• 90% Student Re-Enrollment
• 85% Teacher Retention
• 97.5% Average Daily Attendance for students
• Lead instructional staff to achieve ambitious results; supervise TEKS-based curricula and assessments.
• Review weekly lesson plans, synthesize data, and develop strategies to achieve quantifiable goals.
• Communicate student progress with students and families; maintain cooperative relationships with communities.
• Facilitate technology use for communication and education; support behavior management systems; foster a positive school culture.
• Manage disciplinary behavior; oversee campus tutoring sessions; participate in weekly manager check-ins and school-wide meetings.
• Engage in ongoing professional development; minimum of 40+ hours spent at school per week.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by Campus Director.

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