Curriculum Specialist, Math

Position Summary

Support mathematics teachers at New Visions schools in aligning teaching, learning and formative assessment with Commone Core Learning Standards in Mathematics. Through a collaborative inquiry process, guide teachers in a continuous cycle of implementing effective tasks for students, looking at resulting student work to identify achieved learning and knowledge/skill gaps, and revising and creating new lessons to address those gaps by re-engaging students in math content and practices as needed.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Meet weekly with school-based teams in up to five New Visions high schools to establish and maintain a collaborative inquiry process that will:
  • Implement effective learning experiences for students, aligned with CCLS and embedding regular formative assessment into student learning.
  • Facilitate planning for implementation of two Formative Assessment Lessons per quarter and quarterly administration of a MARS assessment.
  • Facilitate looking at student work on embedded formative assessments to improve teaching lessons, inform future lessons and identify areas for re-engaging students in content and practices.
  • Assist teachers in developing their listening, questioning and feedback skills.
  • Sustain the math teacher teams in an inquiry process within and across schools to continuously use information gleaned from student work to improve instruction and meet student needs.
• Meet weekly with colleagues to establish and maintain a collaborative inquiry process that will reflect on the teacher teams’ progress as evidenced by student work and revise and plan new interventions and supports to move teachers’ pedagogical practice forward.
• Assist in planning and facilitating of cross-school inquiry.

Education and Experience

• Masters-level degree.
• Minimum of five years of experience in teaching math in urban public schools at the secondary level.

Required Skill Sets and Knowledge Base

• Deep knowledge of math content and pedagogy at the secondary school level.
• Experience with collaborative inquiry, particularly using student work to inform instructional decisions.
• Skills related to the design and implementation of effective learning experiences and formative assessments in secondary mathematics.
• Evidence of leadership at the school level.
• Experience coaching and supporting other teachers.
• Excellent written, oral, organizational, and inter-personal skills including strong facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively.
• Experience with standards-driven school reform.

To Apply:

Please email resume, salary history and a cover letter (note in the cover letter the website you saw this posting) that includes your vision of effective instruction in secondary mathematics and examples of how you have supported other teachers and received support from them to: jobs@newvisions.org.

Only candidates who closely fit the qualifications will be contacted for an interview.

New Visions for Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer