Adult Education – Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction Position Available In Worcester, Massachusetts

Adult Education – Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Webster Public Schools
Webster Public Schools – Webster, Massachusetts Job Details

Job ID:

5249633

Application Deadline:

Posted until filled

Posted:

Yesterday

Starting Date:

Immediately
Job Description
The Webster Adult Basic Education Linkages program is seeking candidates for the Adult Education Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction position.

Position Summary:

The Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Webster Adult Basic
Education Linkages will provide effective educational leadership by creating and sustaining the
conditions that enable powerful teaching and learning to occur. The Assistant Director of
Curriculum and Instruction will do so by guiding, planning, implementing, and evaluating assigned
components of Webster Adult Basic Education Linkages using the Massachusetts Adult Basic
Education Indicators of Program Quality (IPQ’s) as a guide. The ultimate goal of all operational
and educational leadership activities will be to improve learning for all learners enrolled in the
program. The Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction will have primary responsibility for
Program Design, Equitable Access, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, Student Progress, and
Educational Leadership in full collaboration with the Director of Operations.. The remaining
responsibilities will be the primary responsibility of the Director of Operations. The Director of
Operations and the Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction will collaborate to be
knowledgeable about and to implement all of the responsibilities listed.

Performance Responsibilities:

a. Program Design – Regularly and effectively design, maintain, and review program design
elements for the Adult Basic Education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and the
Integrated Education and Training (IET) Advanced Manufacturing programs. Program design
will align with articulated funding proposals and with the program mission.
Key activities: Align program design to program mission, provide appropriate continuum of
instructional services, provide appropriate intensity and duration of services, create and evaluate
processes that impact enrollment and retention including outreach, address the unique needs of
subpopulations, and ensure smooth transition to education, training, and employment leading to
family-sustaining wages for all students.
b. Equitable Access – Provide access and equity to all by being responsive to regional needs,
serving students most in need of service, and ensuring that reasonable accommodations are made
for students with self-disclosed disabilities.
Key activities: Create and manage an effective intake and orientation process that prioritizes
students who face one or more barriers to employment, create and maintain systems that
promote confidentiality for all staff and students especially with respect to mandated reporting,
and oversee and maintain systems that ensure reasonable accommodations for students with self-
disclosed disabilities.
c. Career Pathways Collaboration – Collaborate with local education and workforce partners to
create a seamless system that results in increased options for students in postsecondary
education, training, and employment and is aligned with the regional employment needs as
identified in the local plan.
Key activities: Build, maintain, and evaluate Director and Advisor relationships with local
education and workforce development organizations such as the Central Massachusetts WIOA
Partners, Quinsigamond Community College, and Bay Path Vocational Technical High School,
prioritize shared customers in program enrollment, and create and maintain systems that jointly
advance students to their next steps with regard to education, training, and employment leading
to self-sustaining wages. Ensure that teachers are aware of student career pathways and
consistently connect them to classroom instruction.
d. Curriculum and Instruction – Ensure that the program delivers high quality standards-based
instruction, based on rigorous research, evidence-based practices, and high expectations for all
students. Digital literacy instruction and formative and summative assessments will be included
in program curriculum and instruction to reach these outcomes.
Key activities: Create, maintain, and evaluate documented, standards-based curriculum. Create,
maintain, and evaluate an instructional system designed to ensure that teachers consistently
model and provide scaffolds, provide differentiated instruction based on student’s level of
proficiency and learning needs, use frequent assessments to gauge student understanding and to
modify instruction, provide frequent feedback, and use techniques that promote student
engagement.
e. Student Progress – Effectively create a system of teaching, evaluation, and data analysis to
ensure that the program meets or exceeds its state-assigned Measurable Skill Gain (MSG) targets
for educational functioning level completion, high school equivalency credential, and enrollment
in postsecondary education and training annually.
Key activities: Create, maintain, and evaluate a system of data analysis that routinely reviews
student progress as outlined above. Ensure the completion and review of follow-up activities for
all post-exit student outcomes.
f. Advising and Support Services – Work with advising staff to ensure effective and equitable
delivery of advising and support services that includes assisting students with active pursuit of
postsecondary education, training, and employment, addresses barriers to participation, and
works collaboratively to create a culture of student self-efficacy and persistence.
Key activities: Create, maintain, and evaluate a system of advising that supports all students in
the activities listed above.
g. Organizational Support – Work together with Webster Public Schools staff and program
leadership to build capacity of all staff members and to provide quality working conditions.
Key activities: Maintain safe and accessible environments at all times in all locations, create a
plan that compensates staff for professional development, meetings, and instructional
preparation time, minimize staff turnover, provide opportunities for career advancement, provide
thorough orientation and support for all new staff, and provide quality resources for both staff
and students.
h. Educational Leadership – Ensure that the vision for academic success is shared by staff and
students and that the program engages in a continuous improvement planning process that
focuses on improving student outcomes.
Key activities: Regularly and effectively provide supervision and an annual evaluation for all
staff, ensure that professional development is aligned with individual and program needs as well
as student outcome data, collect, analyze, and use program and regional data to inform planning,
and create and maintain a continuous improvement process that includes feedback from staff and
key stakeholders.
i. Fiscal and Data Accountability – Ensure a stable financial condition. Create and evaluate a system of collecting, analyzing, and reporting data.
Key activities: Create and maintain a system that is designed to review grant funds in order to
verify that these funds are expended in compliance with state and federal requirements and are
used for their intended purpose, that maintains the required match commitment, and that ensures
that the Webster Public Schools annually certifies its tax and regulatory filings and produces an
independent audit report. Develop an annual budget that supports the grant approved services.
Create and evaluate a plan to record, maintain, and report accurate program and student data in a
consistent and timely manner through the state’s data management and accountability system.

Position Type:

Full-time