Biddeford Schools are seeking:
Director of Career and Academic Pathways
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Specific Job Details:
Starting ASAP
School Description:
We expect staff and students to embrace challenges and strive to attain excellence while exemplifying Tiger PRIDE: Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Dependability, and Empathy.
Find Biddeford School Department's Three Pillars of Commitment to Students attached.
Brief Job Duties:
Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Vision and Collaboration:
- Collaborate closely with the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology to align academic and career-technical curricula, ensuring seamless pathways for students.
- Work with school administration, department leaders, and community stakeholders to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for student support services.
- Represent the Academic and Career Pathways Department on the BHS Leadership Team, advocating for equitable policies and resource allocation.
2. Differentiated Student Support:
- Oversee the restructuring of student support services into two distinct departments: College and Career Counseling, and Student Health and Wellness.
- Cultivate strong partnerships with local colleges, universities, and industry leaders to expand dual enrollment, internship, and apprenticeship opportunities.
- Spearhead the creation of personalized academic and career plans for all students, empowering them to explore diverse post-graduation options.
3. Curriculum and Program Development:
- Lead the development of a comprehensive career readiness curriculum, integrating it within the high school experience.
- Collaborate with departmental staff to design innovative programming that supports students' social-emotional, mental health, and physical well-being.
- Ensure the annual BHS Program of Studies accurately reflects the breadth of academic and career-technical course offerings.
4. Departmental Leadership and Management:
- Supervise and evaluate the performance of department staff, including school counselors, college/career coordinators, and student health professionals.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making within the Academic and Career Pathways team.
- Manage departmental budgets and advocate for resources to support the district's student support services vision.
5. Advocate for students and the school with post-secondary institutions.
-Collaborate with COT colleagues to promote career and technical education opportunities.
-Care for existing--and forge new--partnerships with post-secondary institutions for concurrent and dual enrollment through articulation agreements and other cutting edge partnerships.
Full Job Description
Certification/License:
State licensure or certification as a School Counselor and/or Administrator preferred, but novel academic and professional training considered.
Criminal History Record Check (CHRC), which includes Fingerprints on file with the Maine Department of Education
Education:
Master's degree in school counseling, educational administration, or a related field preferred, but novel academic and professional training considered.
Experience:
- Previous experience in Pre-K through 16 education for a minimum of 5 years. Work in post-secondary admissions is preferred.
- Demonstrated success in leading and managing multifaceted departments or teams
- Extensive knowledge of post-secondary admissions, career development, and student health/wellness best practices
- Proven ability to cultivate partnerships with community organizations, colleges, and industry
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
- Commitment to equity, inclusion, and empowering students to achieve their full potential
- Live and Work in the Biddeford, Maine CommunityLocated along the Atlantic coastline with miles of beaches
- Views of the Saco River to its west
- Less than 20 minutes south of the Greater Portland Area
- Less than two hours north of Boston.
- Home to a growing population of diverse residents
- Picturesque downtown
- Maine's youngest city with a median age of 29 in the historic downtown
- Thriving economy
- Many recreational opportunities, including fishing, hiking, biking, public parks, and kayaking
Equal Opportunity
The School Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The district shall actively work to have the teacher and administrator workforce reflect the student body's diversity.
The School Department's selection will be based on those with the highest capabilities, the most vital commitment to quality education, and the greatest probability of effectively implementing the learning program.
Therefore, selections will be made without consideration on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, marital status, parental status, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, membership in an employee organization, military service, political affiliation, and any other state or federal prohibitions.
For the purpose of this policy, "sexual orientation" means a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender identity or expression.
Criminal Background Check
All employees of Maine schools must be fingerprinted for a criminal history background check. Please create a Department of Education log-in and make an appointment for a fingerprinting appointment at https://www.maine.gov/doe/cert/fingerprinting
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PILLAR 1 PILLAR 2 PILLAR 3
We are a leader in student-
centered learning in the
region. We will not retreat to
one-size-fits-all academics.
We will continue to educate
ourselves and our communi-
ty about serving the whole
child, being mindful of trauma
and the ravages of substance
abuse. We will not ignore--nor
excuse--the impact of what
happens outside of school.
We will support all learners.
We will not norm our expec-
tations to the population we
serve. Those who struggle or
excel will be met, each in her
own way.
COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS
Faculty and staff recognize the individuality of
our students and will continue to provide learn-
ing opportunities that are engaging, rigorous,
and based on personal need.
The school-as-factory model will be abandoned.
Learning will not be governed by bells, class
periods, and top-down instruction. Instruction-
al leadership in Biddeford will move toward the
facilitation of learning at all levels.
Teachers will continue to utilize the power of
formative assessments to modify instruction to
best meet the needs of our students.
All faculty and staff, ranging from instructional
personnel to bus drivers to athletics coaches to
food service workers, will better understand
how chronic stress and adverse childhood expe-
riences inform student behavior.
District leadership will allocate resources for
additional staff to support teachers and students
who work to better understand and mitigate the
impact of trauma day in, day out.
Instructional personnel will work together
to refine and expand a curriculum of social-
emotional learning.
All faculty and staff will redouble efforts to
engage the families of “new Mainers,” and sup-
port the programs and staff required to educate
those for whom English is a second language.
We will begin a three-year cycle of aligning
and reinforcing our efforts around inter-
vention. Students who struggle will be met
earlier, with greater intentionality, and will
realize better outcomes. Students who excel will
engage in rigorous learning opportunities.
Everyone is a teacher of literacy. Professional
support for parents, faculty and staff will be
paired with refinements to curricula, schedule,
outreach, and summer programs to support
increased student literacy.
As Biddeford becomes younger, more
diverse, and continues an economic
and cultural renaissance, our schools
must also change. We are a caring
faculty and staff who want our stu-
dents to be healthy, balanced, and
equipped to compete in post-second-
ary pursuits. We will improve academ-
ic and social-emotional outcomes with
a laserlike focus on three foundational
pillars in the next five years.
