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Job description
Director - Advanced Learning, Acceleration & Gifted Education
Reports to: Middle Level Executive Director
Contract: 230 days
Position Purpose
The Director provides visionary and strategic leadership for a specialized K6 accelerated learning campus serving students with advanced academic needs, including the district's Gifted and Talented program. The Director is responsible for creating and sustaining an academically rigorous, student-centered environment that challenges learners, supports their social-emotional development, and prepares them for continued success in advanced coursework and future academic opportunities.
The Director will work with campus administration to ensure campus operations, including instructional leadership, staff development, student achievement, personnel management, family and community engagement, and compliance with district, state, and federal requirements. The Director will work collaboratively with district leadership to ensure the campus serves as a model for innovative, accelerated, and gifted education.
Essential Functions
Establish a campus culture that promotes academic excellence, curiosity, creativity, belonging, and responsible risk-taking.
Provide strong instructional leadership focused on high expectations, accelerated learning, academic rigor, and student growth.
Develop and maintain a shared vision for K6 accelerated and gifted education aligned with district goals and priorities.
Ensure curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention practices are aligned with Arkansas academic standards and district expectations.
Promote differentiated, flexible, and student-centered instructional practices that address the unique needs of advanced learners.
Support the appropriate use of acceleration, enrichment, compacting, flexible grouping, project-based learning, and other evidence-based strategies.
Monitor student achievement data and use multiple measures to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for growth.
Conduct classroom observations and provide meaningful feedback and coaching to teachers.
Ensure instructional decisions are informed by student data, research-based practices, and best practices in gifted and accelerated education.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and professional learning.
Provide direct administrative leadership for the district's Gifted and Talented program housed within the campus.
Ensure gifted services are implemented consistently and effectively in accordance with Arkansas Department of Education and district requirements.
Collaborate with gifted education staff to develop and monitor programming that provides appropriate challenge, depth, complexity, and opportunities for advanced learners.
Support effective identification, placement, scheduling, and programming for gifted students.
Ensure gifted students receive appropriate services while maintaining a strong connection to the overall K6 instructional program.
Promote opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, research, and innovation.
Monitor the effectiveness of gifted programming through student performance data, program evaluation, and stakeholder feedback.
Advocate for the academic, social, and emotional needs of gifted and high-ability learners.
Collaborate with campus leadership to ensure a cohesive campus incorporating all District programs housed within the campus as one school.
Additional Duties
Performs other related tasks as assigned by the Executive Director of Middle Level and other Central Office Administrators as designated by the Superintendent.
Note
The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task or responsibility.
Equipment
Uses standard office equipment such as personal computers, printers, copy and fax machines, and telephones.
Travel Requirements
Travels to school district buildings and professional meetings as required.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Knowledge of district policies, Arkansas law, Arkansas Department of Education rules, and applicable Federal requirements.
Knowledge of positive behavioral interventions and support
Knowledge of creating and implementing student behavior expectations
Knowledge of conflict resolution strategies
Ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, parents, and community members
Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with key stakeholders through a variety of methods
Ability to manage day-to-day operations of the campus in an efficient, safe, and student-centered manner.
Ability to manage campus resources and budgets to support instructional priorities and student needs.
Ability to facilitate the resolution of conflict
Ability to plan, organize, and manage time and resources
Ability to work collaboratively with district departments to address facilities, technology, transportation, food service, and other operational needs.
Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards
Works in standard office and school building environments.
Certification/License
Valid Arkansas Administrator Licensure, appropriate for position
Gifted Education Certification
Education
Master's Degree from an accredited college or university in Educational Leadership
Certification in Gifted Education
Experience
Successful experience as a classroom teacher
Successful experience building and leading an accelerated or specialized academic program
5 years as a building principal, preferred
FLSA Status
Exempt
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Worksite address
bentonville, AR, 72712, US
Who can apply
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