SY25-26 Impact Prep Middle School Dean of Instruction

Grades: 6-8

Dean of Instruction

Full Time Start Date: August 18, 2025

Base Salary: Up to $90,424 and commensurate with experience

Job Responsibilities

The Dean of Instruction will join the Building Leadership Team composed of the Associate Principal, Assistant Principals, Lead Counselor, etc., and is expected to take on a leading role in the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT), as well as other teams and initiatives as needed. They should intentionally and effectively build strong relationships with students, teachers/staff, and families. In addition, the Dean of Instructions is expected to:

• Collaborate with instructional staff, administrators and leadership teams to promote student achievement by identifying current, research-based instructional and assessment strategies, modeling lessons to classroom teachers, providing constructive feedback and assisting teachers in collecting student achievement data and using the data to modify instruction
• Use student achievement data, the Dean of Instructions will identify professional development needs and plan, present, and evaluate on-site staff development activities
• Devote the majority of their time to utilizing the coaching model within the classroom setting
• Provide constructive feedback on the delivery of high quality teaching and learning
• Assist classroom teachers in collecting, analyzing, and using student achievement data to guide instruction to ensure that all students are college and career ready
• Provide job embedded professional development focused on organization of the classroom to construct a positive learning climate
• Schedule teachers for classroom peer/best practices observations
• Plan, schedule, and conduct school-based professional development aligned with the school goals outlined in the School Strategic Plan and connected to solid, rigorous core instruction
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by supervisor and administration

Position Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience teaching in middle school or high school preferred
• Appropriate content/program area and grade level educator license from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education required (Educators who are not yet licensed by MA DESE in the appropriate content/program area and grade level may be eligible for a licensure waiver and are still encouraged to apply.)
• Experience as an active anti-racist, LGBTQ advocate, or organizer for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with curriculum and program development preferred
• Demonstrated experience in providing professional development for teachers preferred
• Demonstrated experience supporting students with disabilities preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge, experience, and engagement in providing leadership around improvement preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with current pedagogy as it relates to the school's evidence-based best practices in support of the school focus preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team setting with other adults preferred

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

We encourage you to reach out to us at info@sezp.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

Benefits

Selection as an educator in SEZP recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision, capacity, and commitment to anti-racist school communities. Educators joining SEZP may be eligible for the following recruitment incentives, subject to personalized negotiation for individual candidates:

• Up to $90,424 base salary
• Substantial signing bonus in addition to base salary
• Relocation award for candidates from regions beyond western Massachusetts

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT  

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-_discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com

Salary : $57,396 - $90,424