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WestEd Position Announcement

Position Title:	School Turnaround Facilitator (Multiple Openings)
Reports to:	Associate Director, School Turnaround Center
Program:	Comprehensive School Assistance Program
Salary:	Level H - $81,120 - $101,400
Location:	Home Office
Time Base:	50%
Position No:	3735

WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. While WestEd serves the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah as one of the nation's Regional Educational Laboratories, our agency's work extends throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd has 16 offices nationwide, from Washington and Boston to Arizona, Southern California, and its headquarters in San Francisco.

The goal of the Comprehensive School Assistance Program at WestEd is to make a significant contribution to closing the achievement gap in American education between English language learners and native speakers of English, and students from low-income families and their more economically advantaged peers. To accomplish this goal, CSAP staff members work to build the capacity of schools, school districts, and state departments of education to improve educational programs for students on the wrong side of the achievement gap. In addition, program staff are expected to contribute to the knowledge base on turning around low performing schools and districts and to use the knowledge they have gained in their work to inform local, state, and national policy makers.

Position is based in Stockton, CA. We are looking to hire 4 part-time or 2 full-time School Turnaround Facilitators.

Position Description

Facilitate the turnaround or transformation of one or more persistently low-performing schools in the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Although WestEd provides these services in multiple states including California, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Hawaii, and others, this specific position opening is to provide services in Stockton, California. To learn more about WestEd’s approach to school transformation and turnaround, see: http://www.wested.org/schoolturnaroundcenter.

Responsibilities

1. Lead or participate on a Turnaround Team in a persistently low-performing school providing specific content expertise for the Turnaround Team. As lead, manage contract budget; schedule/coordinate training provided to the client school; provide comprehensive needs assessment, action planning, and implementation coaching to schools; monitor implementation of the action plan through WestEd’s electronic planning and monitoring tool, the Tracker; and compile data, write reports, and present findings on work.



2. Provide training and consultations on areas critical to school improvement. Areas include principal effectiveness and distributed leadership, teacher recruitment and retention, evaluation, standards, assessment, curriculum, instruction, parent/community involvement, professional development, safety and school environment, and instruction for English-language learners and students with special needs.



3. Work with low-performing, high-poverty schools that have been identified by State Departments' of Education as persistently low-performing.



4. Support the internal structures of the Comprehensive School Assistance Program.



5. Participate in professional learning community webinars, trainings and events.



6. Contribute to the development of training materials and technical assistance support materials.



7. Submit regular progress reports of accomplishments and challenges through Tracker; meet with Associate Director quarterly for status reports.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above, in education.
  
• Previous school principal experience preferred.
  
• Extensive background in elementary and middle school programs.
  
• Extensive background in reading and mathematics instruction and working with diverse learners, including English learners and students with disabilities.
  
• A minimum of 3 years classroom teaching experience.
  
• A minimum of 3 years experience as a school site or district administrator.
  
• Recent documented successful experience in improving school achievement as a school principal or external support provider.
  
• The ability to assist a school to align curriculum, instruction and assessments.
  
• Knowledge of professional development practices, reading or math interventions, data-driven decision making, school action planning, data management systems, and establishing standards-based accountability systems.
  
• Ability to design professional development systems for schools and districts.
  
• Excellent communication skills for implementing workshops, institutes, coaching programs, site-based research, and making presentations to districts, school boards, and community groups.
  
• Excellent writing skills.
  
• Ability to work effectively with clients, colleagues and organizations.
  
• Demonstrated experience in working with diverse populations.
  
• Must be US citizen or authorized to work (visa sponsorship not available).

Application Process

We invite you to Apply for this Position.

Human Resources
WestEd
730 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
http://www.WestEd.org

WestEd is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Positions are open until filled.