Professional Learning Specialist

2 weeks ago

Philadelphia, United States The School District Of Philadelphia Full time

**Professional Learning Specialist (Math, K-8)** **-** **(**50021269**)**

**Description**

**Title**: Professional Learning Specialist (Math K-8)

**Department**: Office of Leadership Development

**Reports To**:Administrative Superior

The School District of Philadelphia is committed to becoming the fastest improving District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 200,000 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?

**Job Summary**:
The School District of Philadelphia is committed to having schools staffed with great teachers and principals. Professional Learning Specialists are responsible for supporting the continuous development of teachers, principals, and support staff. Professional Learning Specialists design, align, and facilitate, professional learning opportunities for educators throughout the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). Work involves formulating and implementing plans to meet the short-term and long-term needs of the District’s teaching and administrative staff. Work additionally involves determining training and personnel development needs on a learning network, school and individual level. Professional Learning Specialists are tasked with providing high-quality professional growth opportunities that will enhance educators’ leadership, cultural competency, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and outcomes-oriented skills. Their work also involves supporting the District’s curriculum, assessment, and instructional goals.

**Essential Functions**:

- Designs and facilitates professional learning and development sessions and courses on a variety of topics to support the designated programmatic framework.
- Conducts professional learning and development sessions by learning network, grade band, and school type to bolster educator effectiveness and student progress.
- Research new trends in education in an effort to keep staff aligned with the Pedagogical shifts and SDP instructional practices.
- Thoughtfully creates customized professional learning modules for educators.
- Support District initiatives.

**Academic Services Math K-8 Specialty**:

- Designs and facilitates professional learning and development sessions and courses on a variety of topics to support the designated programmatic framework.
- Plans and administers the implementation of instructional strategies to support academic achievement aligned to Board of Education Goals and Guardrails.
- Conducts professional learning and development sessions for principals, leadership teams, and teachers based on data informed needs.
- Assists school-based instructional leadership teams in analyzing data and creating an action plan to respond to data analysis.
- Debriefs with teachers, school leadership teams, and academic staff to analyze and support the instructional practices in schools.
- Visits schools and classrooms and provides support to improve instructional and assessment strategies through instructional rounds and other informal visits.
- Thoughtfully creates customized professional learning modules for educators.
- Research new trends in education in an effort to keep staff aligned with the Pedagogical shifts and SDP instructional practices.
- Thoughtfully creates customized professional learning modules for educators.
- Support District initiatives.
- Develops and implements Common Planning Time as a District strategy.

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in education, teacher leadership, administration or a related field.
- Five years of full-time, paid, professional teaching experience, which has included working with evidence-based interventions, developing and implementing professional development, and serving as a staff development leader, supervisor, or principal.

**NOTE**: An applicant who does not meet the minimum education or work experience requirements listed above may be considered if, at the sole discretion of the Talent Office, they have a unique combination of education and work experiences that indicates potential for success in this role.

**Certificates/Licenses**:

- Possession of a valid Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Administrative certificate for K-12 or Elementary and Secondary Principal.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**

**Demonstrated knowledge of**:

- the principles, practices and techniques of academic pedagogy, trends and best practices.
- the principles, practices and techniques of working with adult educators.
- standards-aligned instruction, pedagogy, instructional supports, and evidence
- based instructional practices.
- the methods and techniques used in effective program planning, design and administration.
- the current educational issue

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