Elementary School Director

The Elementary School Director serves as the educational leader, responsible for implementing the bilingual FAA curriculum and its specific methods. The Director is responsible for managing policies, regulations, and procedures to ensure that all students are supervised in a safe, nurturing, and challenging learning environment.

The Elementary School Director speaks both French and English fluently, and behaves professionally with staff, children, parents, visitors, service people, at all times. The director is entitled to confidentiality regarding any school information. Caution should be exercised when discussing personal information in the school office and other public places in and out of school.

The Elementary School Director is prepared to flexibly adapt to the diverse situations that arise in a school setting.
The Elementary School Director communicates weekly with the Head of School about the needs, successes, and general operation of the center.

Responsibilities

Program

• Ensure the FAA curriculum and methods are well understood and implemented
• Participate in the writing process of the curriculum and make recommendations about curriculum choices and report cards
• Provide and maintain a Master schedule of classes and duties in June, with revisions in August, and make any updates when necessary
• Meet weekly with the English Coordinator
• Meet weekly with the other Division Directors to discuss programs, projects, training, and other management issues
• Be aware of all AEFE projects and encourage participation
• Coordinate the school events across cycles
• Make schedules for show rehearsals and events
• Organize the French Evaluations Nation ales, and record data
• Compare French Evaluations with MAP Assessments
• Meet weekly with pedagogical Management across campuses
• Maintain daily operations of the Division
• Make suggestions for professional development learning in-house and outside
• Ensure that each class has a Class Council in function

• Promote and support the "flexible classroom."
• Coordinate the transition from 5th to 6th grade with the Middle School Director
• Coordinate the transition from K to 1st grade with the Preschool Director
• Meet monthly with the other Division Directors and the Sustainable Development Coordinator to discuss projects and eco-delegates' actions
• Share the proofreading of report cards with the Lower School Director

Team Management

• Motivate the team to fulfill their mission and potentially go above and beyond
• Onboard new teachers and provide weekly guidance while also celebrating veterans
• Conduct useful, meaningful, and fruitful weekly meetings with faculty
• Prepare an agenda and record minutes of these weekly meetings
• Collect and review yearly and weekly lesson plans
• Conduct regular walk-throughs, which include follow-ups and enriching suggestions
• Conduct annual formal evaluation of faculty and staff and discuss strengths & weaknesses using the teachers' rubric components or the job description
• Keep a trace of any walk-throughs or evaluations, digitally or in paper form
• Organize substitute(s) for the absent team member and be the substitute if needed
• Authorize PTO - Paid Time off - days (which are recorded by HR)
• Encourage and support bilingual and interdisciplinary projects / Ensure Google form is properly filled out
• Provide professional and personal support as needed
• Participate actively in any hiring needs in coordination with the HR Director

Students Management

• Provide a professional environment to the faculty with information, schedule, and organization conducive to efficiency
• Ensure a school climate where social-emotional learning is applied and understood to support all students' needs
• Ensure a school climate where academic excellence is promoted
• Ensure a nurturing and safe learning environment through positive language and perfect organization, and schedule
• Support the teachers with students showing difficulty before an intervention, and report to the Intervention Meeting when needed
• Observe children's needs in the classroom and bring ideas to the teachers
• Establish contact with state and local authorities to receive supplemental aid from JCBOE
• Maintain academic records of all students: MAP assessments including MAP Fluency, report cards, national evaluations, DELF diploma, and Graduation Diploma, digitally or in paper
• Ensure that Parent-Teacher Conferences notes are recorded in SIS/Renweb

• Implement all policies related to Inclusive Services:
  • Collect requests from teachers for the upcoming Monthly Intervention Meeting (through Google form)
  • Select the students to be discussed and ensure that the accommodations have already been organized
  • Gather with other Division Directors and/or consultants to create the agenda of the meeting
  • Lead the conversation about the student(s) of your division, take notes, and follow up on the action plan
  • Prepare and participate in PPRE / PAP / PAI Meetings
  • Monitor the implementation of those plans
  • Organize the annual speech screening in the 1st grade in coordination with the Preschool Director
  • Ensure that children…