ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT
Secondary Education Services
2020-2021 School Year

Under the direction of the Superintendent, the Assistant Superintendent provides leadership in developing, achieving and maintaining the best possible educational programs and services by serving as an executive member of the superintendent’s cabinet and by providing leadership and assuming management responsibility with the development, selection, implementation, evaluation and continual refinement of the District’s Grade 7-12 academic program, curricula and assessment system in order to accelerate and enhance student learning for all students to be college and career ready.

Representative Duties:

• Assist and support the Superintendent in directing the administration and coordination of the district’s secondary educational programs and initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Superintendent, Elementary Education Services to create and maintain vertical articulated educational program and maximize use of resources to increase achievement.
• Lead the creation and implementation of inclusive environments, CCSS, standards-based grading and other data driven decision making.
• Administers, coordinates and evaluates the overall program, staff and operation of the secondary schools of the district, including instruction, co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
• Provide direction and accountability for principals and site administration by monitoring, assessing and evaluation school effectiveness to ensure high quality instructional program are provided for all and learning is maximized.
• Lead, coach and support principals in goal setting, planning, evidence collection and the development of school improvement plans to assist school leaders in meeting their school and professional goals focused on student achievement targets.
• Evaluate principal performance in terms of school’s productivity in achieving the District’s priorities, with a focus on increasing achievement and learning.
• Support and hold building administrators accountable to build teacher capacity that promote learning environments that establish and maintain conditions that are optimal for learning, are characterized by high expectations and provide social support and differentiation of instructional based on formative and summative assessment.
• Engage in meaningful dialogue with principals to address instructional, social and emotion and other needs of students and families.
• Assist principals to build capacity of assistant principals to prepare them to become instructional leaders; support assistant principal professional development.
• Direct and monitor the work of the Educational Services Division to ensure coordinated efforts to support the secondary school sites.
• Establish a results-based culture through continuous collection, examination, and use of data to develop long and short-range plans to improve the instructional process providing assistance to school sites with on-going monitoring and analysis of the curriculum.
• Provide leadership in the development, evaluation and continual refinement of the academic, curricula and assessment system.
• Assists in planning of staff development programs designed to meet specific identified needs in schools, programs or job functions
• Participate in budget planning activities, and develop expenditure review and control procedures to ensure an appropriate and cost beneficial/effective operations. Oversee the managing, monitoring, and evaluating specially funded programs to ensure compliance with funding agency standards and guidelines.
• Provide leadership and oversight to secondary activities and athletics.
• Manages the compliances with Title IX regulations related to instruction and completes other related functions as directed.
• Prepares Board meeting items, policies and administrative rules.

The duties and responsibilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these job functions.