About Great Oaks Charter Schools
The mission of the Great Oaks Charter Schools is to prepare students to succeed in college. What sets Great Oaks Charter Schools apart from other charters is the use of additional instructional support implemented by the Great Oaks Fellows, a group of recent college graduates who provide up to two hours of daily individualized support to every student. Great Oaks Americorps Fellows provide students with additional opportunities to engage in critical content, which helps to close academic achievement gaps and level the playing field. We are seeking talented, tenacious people who share our belief that all students deserve a high-quality education.
Great Oaks Design Principles
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Mastery: For students to shape the world and not be defined by it, they must have deep knowledge and the ability to apply that to new contexts. Therefore, we emphasize hands-on, project-based curriculum and joyful teaching.
Leadership: The purpose of leadership is to support a vision of the world in which equity and justice are essential. Therefore, we offer leadership opportunities to students so that they can persist through challenges, plan proactively for their future, and collaborate with others.
Community: Community is predicated on the understanding that if it takes a village to raise a child, why not help raise the village. Therefore , we support the whole child in the development of healthy self-esteem and confidence through building deep relationships with others and themselves.
About Great Oaks Charter School - New York City
Great Oaks (GO) Charter School - New York opened in 2013 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a focus on serving a heterogenous population of students. Currently, Great Oaks-New York City serves 310 students in grades 6-9. GO-NYC is growing to serve students in grades 6-12 by adding one grade level each year. Our first tenth grade class will begin in August of 2022.
Position Summary
Great Oaks New York City Charter School is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and transformative Middle School Director to lead Great Oaks NYC through its next stage of development. The Middle School Director is responsible for the overall performance, management and operations of the Great Oaks Charter Middle School on 38 Delancey Street in Manhattan. The Middle School Director is responsible for ensuring the Great Oaks model is fulfilled daily on behalf of the students and families. Specifically, the Middle School Director is responsible for the following:
- Develop and implement an effective middle school strategy that enlists staff, families and students in a common effort for student college and career readiness aligned to the Great Oaks vision of fostering mastery, leadership, and community;
- Effectively lead the middle school staff, building a community organized around that vision; contribute to the vision and design for the high school.
- Ensure that high quality curriculum and pedagogy is implemented across subject, content areas and tutorial settings. Ensure effective inclusion of diverse learner populations;
- Oversee use of daily, weekly and monthly assessment systems throughout the school aligned to state standards and designed to accelerate student outcomes and their passion for learning. Work with administrators, staff, Fellows, students and families to utilize the information to improve learning and teaching;
- Ensure that systems are implemented effectively to develop, support, coach and supervise teachers in a way that builds teacher knowledge, inspires and enlists them, and holds them accountable for student learning. Ensure that the school attracts and retains high quality staff;
- Ensure the implementation of effective youth culture systems that build off strengths-based leadership development research and enlist staff and students to establishing an effective and caring culture in the school;
- Implementing the Fellow Corps model, where every student receives effective tutoring and mentoring each week that significantly improves their skills and abilities and orientation towards college readiness;
- Establish effective and regular ongoing systems of communication with teachers, Fellows, students and parents within the Middle School. Support the Executive Director in communication to the Board and State Education Department; this includes, but is not limited to the following:
- All members of the school community are fully engaged and can bring their whole selves to the school;
- A warm, caring, and strengths-based culture is built, deeply committed to student learning and success, that values openness, hard work, and achievement;
- Ongoing work on diversity, equity and inclusion for staff, students, and families;
- Coordinate instructional, assessment, curricular, culture support with the Great Oaks Foundation and the Executive Director for the school;
- Support the Executive Director in implementing the policy, structures and systems to support effective management of the school in areas ranging from budget to enrollment, student data systems to state compliance;
- Uses reflection and improvement in all aspects of work and in leadership of the school to reach all students and effectively drive student learning.;
- Agrees to seek - through formal and informal feedback - to continue to develop and improve his/her job performance while employed by the School. At Great Oaks, an ongoing quest for improvement is considered essential for all staff members;
Competencies and Qualifications
The successful candidate will have proven success in implementing high-quality instruction that led to the improvement of student achievement in an urban school. S/he will possess exceptional relationship building skills and the ability to communicate clearly to multiple stakeholders. The successful candidate will also have:
- A strong academic record with a Masters degree from a competitive college or university required
- At least three years of experience improving student achievement at an urban high school
- State leadership certification (strongly preferred)
- Extremely strong instructional leadership abilities
- A strong belief that all students can succeed
- A do-whatever-it takes attitude including a willingness to work occasionally on the weekend or in the evening
- An exceptional ability to collaborate with a team to drive an aligned vision
Great Oaks provides a competitive compensation and benefits package; exact compensation will vary based on experience and education.
General Information
This position is for the 2022-2023 school year and the successful candidate will start in August of 2022. Selected candidates will be contacted to set up a video interview.
COVID-19 VACCINE
The GO-NYC requires all staff members to obtain and submit evidence of full COVID-19 vaccination. This decision was made to keep all staff and students safe as we return to in-person meetings and site visits. New hires will be able to start working with one dose of the vaccine as long as the second dose (where applicable) is scheduled within a month of the person's start date.