Academic Learning Center Director

Academic Learning Center Director (Education)

The Academic Learning Center Director (along with the Guidance Counselor and Career/College Counselor) form the Guidance Department at Hargrave Military Academy. The Department supports the Academys mission by helping cadets navigate a personal, challenging, and ultimately successful course of instruction to prepare them for continued successful post-secondary education and life experiences.

The role of the Director of the Academic Learning Center is primarily a role of monitoring and maintaining academic progress for all students. i.e. assisting, advising, supporting, directing and problem solving with teachers, students, and families. While this role also includes supporting teachers in shaping strategies to ensure the academic success of students. The ALC Director will enable the students to receive help in a number of programs.

Those programs include Designated Study Hall, Academic Redline, Academic Restriction, academic tutoring, baseline assessment in math and reading, standardized testing, and other programs to help facilitate success.

• Supervise and manage the facility as an academic learning environment
• Provide faculty with insight and resources available to students with a variety of learning disabilities (HMA does not honor IEPs or 504 plans.)
• Provide requested teaching strategies for teachers to enhance differentiated learning.
• Conduct Math and Reading placement testing for all new students. The director will facilitate placement testing of all students upon matriculation to HMA.
• Coordinate peer-to-peer tutoring or remediation for all academic subjects while providing individualized help when needed.
• Participate on the Academic Review Board and support implementation of recommendations and provide follow up.
• Coordinate academic intervention plans, tutoring or mediation with coaches, academic dean, parents and students who are on Redline, Academic Restriction, or the DFI list in order to achieve student success.
• Coordinate Academic Intervention Board meetings (a collaborative and positive effort to help at-risk students on a case-by-case basis) as needed.
• Coordinate the Designated Study Hall.
• Facilitate and monitor students completing online programs for courses not offered at Hargrave or for credit recovery (as opposed to the traditional seated course).
• Serves as a member of the Academic Committee
• Other duties as required by the Academic Dean