Resident Instructional Leader

Ingenuity Prep is a supportive school community dedicated to academic rigor and civic leadership, preparing students for the path to colleges and career of their choosing. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers and staff. We are one of the highest performing schools in Ward 8 and proud recipients of a Bold Performance School award.

We are seeking a Resident Instructional Leader to join our team for the 2024-25 school year. In this new role the Resident Instructional Leader will develop innovative leadership practices through people management, project leadership, and learning opportunities. The Resident Instructional Leader will be managed and developed by the Chief Academic Officer with an eye towards implementing Ingenuity Prep’s school-wide core practices.The role offers the opportunity to hone leadership skills, develop an understanding of the Ingenuity Prep model and prepare to be a full-time principal or vice principal. Successful candidates have a track record of leading teams to measurable academic and school culture outcomes. They believe in the power of collective impact and build teams that innovate, take risks and take an equity-centered approach.

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

• Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
• Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong Instructional Leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
• Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO AS RESIDENT INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER:

People Leadership (60%):

• Serve as member of the school’s Instructional Leadership team to support the academies in meeting and exceeding year-long goals, stepping in for leaders when needed
• Manage and develop groups of teachers through cycles of coaching, professional development and evaluation
• Drive adult learning initiatives across academies through planning and implementation of targeted professional development
• Build strong relationships with students and families; support student culture through individual coaching, academy-level professional development and community meeting leadership
• Regularly analyze data including to make shifts in curricular choices, instructional practices and teacher development.
• Collaborate with Ingenuity Prep’s Instructional Leadership to identify instructional practices and strategies that will best support our teachers and students.

Program Leadership (20%):

• Utilize external research and collaborative design approaches to begin or assist the School Leadership Team in designing potential SY25-26 programming.
• Collect, reflect upon, and invest others in using data to drive program improvement
• Support other leaders to adopt the program model for the 2025-26 school year

Learning and Development (20%):

• Co-create and execute a personalized, year-long development approach to ensure preparation to assume additional leadership within the school
• Engage in internal professional development alongside vice principals and principals including summer on-boarding, quarterly planning sessions and weekly professional development
• Shadow current principals to deepen understanding of internal leadership approaches, systems and structures
• Participate in the School Leader Lab Fellowship. Participation is dependent on when role is filled.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Ingenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:

• You hold a passionate belief in Ingenuity Prep’s mission, values, and educational model
• You have at least three years of combined leadership experience in middle school or Special Education, preferably in a school serving a high number of at-risk students
• You have a track record of driving significant academic achievement through others and a significant desire to expand your impact in this arena
• You have a proven ability to create and maintain a strong, positive adult culture achieved through empowering coaching and management practices
• You relentlessly drive to achieve goals
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and a have capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges
• You can work collaboratively with all stakeholders to innovate, problem-solve, and/or resolve conflict
• You demonstrate a strong commitment to growth, professional learning, and equity-centered leadership

Starting Salary: $103,522

Note: This is an one-year role and will only be available for School Year 2024-2025.

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $103,522.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20032: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person