Secondary Content Director - Math Job at YES Prep Public Schools in Houston

Description

Job Description

POSITION: Secondary Content Director - Math

REPORTS TO: Managing Director of Academics

POSITION TYPE: 12-month

START DATE: March 2025

COMPENSATION: $74,604 - $89,525, Home Office grade 7

At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of an equity driven, team-oriented culture.

Our campuses are advancing educational equity. Some quick stats about us:

•19,500 Students

•2,300 Team Members

•15 Secondary Campuses

•9 Elementary Campuses

•92% Students Who Qualify for Free/Reduced-Price Lunch

•96% Hispanic & African-American Students

•90% Students Who Are Accepted to a 4-Year University

•88% First-Generation College Students

•Ranked in the Top 100 High Schools in the Nation, U.S. News & World Report

We serve the students of Houston, Texas, the 4th largest city across the United States. There are over 20 public-school districts and other great public charter school options within Houston's city limits serving our increasing population. We are a rapidly growing organization, committed to creating life-changing opportunities for over 23,000 students by 2025.

THE OPPORTUNITY

YES Prep needs a dynamic Secondary Math Content Director, with a diverse set of experiences to make our mission a reality. As a YES Prep employee, you will achieve jaw-dropping results, create pathways to opportunity for our students, build transformative relationships, and eliminate educational inequities to advance social justice.

To put it simply, you will ensure our students experience a rigorous academic program that increases achievement and better prepares them for college success. You will lead a team that creates high-quality and aligned Math curriculum, assessments, and professional development, while developing and implementing strategies to increase strong implementation and respond to organizational, external, and data context. The ultimate goal is to meet rigorous student achievement goals for both state accountability and college-readiness metrics.

THE ROLE

When you join the YES Prep team, some of the exciting work and responsibilities will include:

Vision and Leadership

• Collaborating closely with the Managing Director of Academics to maintain vision in Math and actively advocating for its implementation district-wide;
• Leading, managing, and developing a team of Content Specialists to create high quality critical resources and development for campus-based staff on urgent timelines.
• Hiring, training, managing, and arranging compensation for teachers in stipend-based roles in a manner that aligns with team and organizational goals and standards
• Investing stakeholders, prioritizing initiatives, developing strategies and processes, and managing a team of content leaders towards exemplary student achievement in a fluid educational landscape;
• Exemplifying YES Prep Core values and committing to growth as a leader;

Curriculum Development

• Monitoring and sharing updates to standards, pedagogy, and assessment methodology for math with your team and applicable stakeholders;
• Setting an explicit standard for rigorous, aligned curriculum designed to reach all learners in math courses;
• Creating and/or selecting aligned curriculum for students currently performing below grade level to receive high-impact interventions in Grades 6 and 7 that support achieving grade-level proficiency as quickly as possible.
• Providing feedback and coaching to your team of direct reports and seasonal teachers to create and implement aligned, effective unit plans and key resources for courses on an urgent timeline that lead to strong system-wide academic results;
• Strategically, accurately, and responsibly managing a budget of teacher stipends and student instructional materials (e.g. books, manipulatives, supplies, etc.) to ensure that teachers and students have access throughout the year to rigorous and aligned curriculum and supporting resources;
• Driving your team to build strong vertical alignment across math courses that leads to college-readiness in your content area;

Assessment Writing and Data Analysis

• Maintaining expertise in state (e.g. STAAR, TELPAS) and college-ready (e.g. SAT, TSIA) assessment design to strategically set an explicit standard for rigorous, aligned assessment in math courses;
• Providing feedback and coaching to your team to create summative and common assessments for all math courses that effectively measure progress towards ambitious student achievement goals;
• Synthesizing student achievement data on a regular basis to prioritize and adjust the work of your team; communicate key takeaways and recommendations to teachers and leaders;
• Urgently addressing data gaps by creating and implementing strategic response

Support and Develop Fellow Educators and Leaders

• Setting vision and structure for Content Days aligned to Academic team priorities, teacher needs, student data, and/or content team priorities;
• Creating structures and coaching team to execute Content Days that lead to teacher development and collaboration;
• Creating opportunities for collaboration with other Home Office teams, such as Special Populations, Teacher Development, Principal Leaders, College Initiatives, and Analytics, as well as campus leadership to ensure instruction and teacher support is aligned;
• Consistently and frequently observing instruction and student output in Math courses to better inform curricular practice, including serving as a coach-of-coach for campus-based instructional leaders when co-observing;
• Regularly designing, facilitating, and training others to facilitate professional development sessions and assessment norming and scoring for teachers and/or instructional leaders; including, at minimum 5 full days in July and at least 5 additional full days throughout the school year
• Designing and facilitating professional development to teachers and/or leaders in response to data.
• Additional duties as assigned.

THE PERSON

We seek staff with diverse backgrounds, talents, interests, and ideas. Certain traits consistently shine through for our most successful employees: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, and resilience. Other traits needed and desired for this role are:

THE MUST HAVES

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution
• A minimum of 3 years of exemplary teaching experience in secondary math courses
• A minimum of 2 additional years of academic leadership experience (campus and/or district level)
• Expertise in current curricular and assessment strategies specific to math
• Skills and experience in managing a team and facilitating professional development

• Belief in and commitment to the mission and core values of YES Prep Public Schools
• Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
• Demonstrated ability to work on a team
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress

THE MUST HAVE BELIEFS

•Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools

•Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education

•Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos

•Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results

•Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth

THE NICE TO HAVES

•Masters' Degree in Math

•Experience in both middle and high school teaching and/or academic leadership

•Bilingual - Spanish

THE PERKS

•Compensation - This position is an exempt, salaried position; offers commensurate with experience.

•Health and Supplemental Insurance - A $0 monthly medical option that includes $600 towards a Health Savings Account, in addition to a variety of supplemental benefits including Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, etc. Employees must work 20+ hours a week to be eligible for a full spectrum of benefits, and 10 hours a week minimum for medical benefits.

•Retirement Plans - Participation in Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a 457b Retirement Plan.

•Paid Time Off - Employees working 20+ hours a week receive 15 days of Paid Time Off in addition to the system closures during the Academic Calendar.

•Paid Leave Programming - In the event you need to be out due to medical needs (including maternity and paternity leave), YES Prep offers paid leave, paid out at 100%, based on eligibility and tenure.

•Professional Development - YES Prep values longevity and performance over time. We invest in developing leaders through high-quality programs, effective coaching, and ongoing professional development.

•Award Winning Culture - The strong cultures of our campuses and Home Office are just one of many reasons we were named Houston's Best Place To Work in 2018, 2019, and 2021. We won the 2012 Broad Prize for Excellence in Urban Education and were a 2016 finalist as well.

WE ARE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO EQUITY & DIVERSITY

YES Prep strives to recruit a diverse team of leaders. We believe there is a transformative academic and social benefit for students when their teachers and leaders reflect a diversity of backgrounds. Ninety-five percent (95%) of staff members agree that the organization provides a welcoming environment given their background and identity according to our latest system survey.

YES Prep is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or parenthood.