Adult Education Manager
Company: Mary's Center
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 19, 2024
Job Description:
DescriptionBriya is committed to promoting diversity, equity and
inclusion within our organization and the communities we serve. We
embrace diversity of experiences, ideas, and individuals, and seek
to bring diverse candidates to the table. We value having staff who
come from the communities most impacted by our work and especially
encourage immigrants and ESOL learners to apply.
Position Summary:
The Adult Education Manager at the Fort Totten site is responsible
for Hybrid program coordination and supervises teaching staff in
the Fort Totten 2Gen ESOL program at Briya Public Charter School -
a leading two-generation education program serving immigrant
parents and their young children in Washington, D.C. Briya is a
Tier One Public Charter School, consistently achieving the highest
educational outcomes through its innovative, family-centric
programming.
At Briya, adults acquire English, digital literacy, and parenting
skills, with some continuing on to the school's workforce
development programs. At the same time, their young children attend
Briya's high-quality early childhood program. In Briya's workforce
development programs, adult learners prepare for national
industry-recognized certifications in high-demand careers in
healthcare and early childhood education while increasing their
academic and workforce development skills and knowledge.
Briya has a strategic partnership with Mary's Center, a Federally
Qualified Health Center, further strengthening student families
with comprehensive medical, dental, and social services. At three
of its four campuses, Briya is co-located with Mary's Center.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This in-person 40 hour position is based at Briya's Fort Totten
location. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Adult Education Manager contributes to Briya's success by
ensuring the ESOL teaching staff are prepared and the Hybrid
program is well-coordinated to support ESOL student success. The
Manager is responsible for the following core functions within the
Adult Education team:
- Supervision of hybrid teaching positions at the Fort Totten
site
- Hybrid coordination to ensure optimal collaboration for student
success
The Adult Education Manager position may include, but is not
limited to, the following tasks and responsibilities:
Fort Totten ESOL Teacher Supervision
- Supervise hybrid teaching positions at the Fort Totten site
(approx. 6-8):
- Teachers in the Hybrid ESOL Program
- Paraeducators in the Hybrid ESOL Program
- Meet weekly or biweekly with supervisees to cover the following
topics as needed to successfully support student progress and
teacher satisfaction and growth over the school year:
- Engage teachers on student progress, reviewing data and teacher
insight as needed to ensure progression toward student and school
goals
- Monitor student outcomes, including review and analysis of
CASAS assessment results; support practice change as
needed
- Analyze student attendance; support actions as needed
- Ensure teachers are preparing students for CASAS assessments
and have the resources and training to facilitate testing
- Conduct formal classroom observations at least twice per year
(one virtual and one in-person for hybrid); add informal classroom
observations as needed
- Support PD implementation; identify emerging PD/coaching
needs
- Review teaching assistant performance updates; identify
emerging needs
- Oversee and support teachers' individual annual goal-setting;
regularly follow-up on progress/performance and offer guidance as
needed
- Approve PTO and schedule changes
- Conduct annual performance review
- Communicate information to teachers, including schoolwide
updates, ESOL updates including curriculum and professional
learning, and schoolwide events; solicit input and feedback on key
issues
- Remind teachers of the resources they can access to stay
up-to-date on essential Briya information
- Model and encourage transparency in all team communications
- Provide and facilitate in-classroom support as needed,
including but not limited to:
- additional support for students, such as tutoring or special
accommodations
- interpretation support
- make up assignments
- new technology rollouts
- Substitute as needed
- Attend supervisor meetings as needed
Hybrid ESOL Program Site Coordination
- Ensure collaboration and smooth operations across Fort Totten
by representing adult education on the Site Coordination Team:
- Build community across staff
- Actively participate in site-based coordination meetings:
- As point of contact between site team and adult ed teachers,
gather teacher input to inform planning
- Coordinate student and staff-facing activities at Fort Totten
and manage logistics; oversee adult ed participation and roles for
special events like holiday parties and birthdays
- Ensure teachers have materials and support needed for student
celebrations
- Confidentially discuss students/families of concern and
determine how to support them
- Share coordination meeting updates and decisions with the Fort
Totten adult ed team
- Contribute to the school-wide meeting agenda; read notes and
share updates with adult ed team
- Ensure adult ed students have access to site-specific
announcements
- Create monthly calendars for students (hybrid and
in-person)
- Coordinate field trips and accompanying activities for adult ed
teams, including library visits
- Serve on the Fort Totten SERT team (School Emergency Response
Team)
Student Outcomes
At Briya, all education staff are accountable to ensuring the
school meets its student outcomes goals. For Managers who are also
teacher supervisors, accountability for student outcomes
includes:
CASAS Outcome Expectation: Students achieve CASAS assessment level
gains x to ensure Briya retains a Level 1 Rating by DCPCSB.
- Ensure teachers are aware of CASAS expectations; check in with
teachers at least monthly about students' CASAS
performance
- Ensure teachers have Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) to
administer tests, access reports, monitor progress, and implement
appropriate instruction
- Coordinate supports/interventions for students who are not
making anticipated progress
Attendance Expectation: AE classes have a minimum 70% attendance
rate
- Review the attendance app, month view, with teachers at least
monthly
- Identify potential areas of concern and intervene
- Back up teachers by confirming and recording attendance as
needed
Reading Journal Outcome Expectation: Students complete five reading
journals to meet Briya's charter school requirements.
- Ensure that teachers are doing reading journals in class and
tracking completion data on time
Briya Values:
Successful employees will demonstrate the school's five core
values:
- Learner-Centeredness: Student agency and voice are foundational
to high-quality education.
- Inclusiveness: People of all countries, races, religions,
cultures, genders, sexual orientations, languages, abilities, and
life experiences are integral to the Briya community.
- Trust: A space of safety and mutual respect among students and
staff promotes optimal growth and belonging.
- Collaboration: Strategic, agile collaboration on all
levels-among staff, students, departments, and community
partners-increases the holistic success of student
families.
- Equity: The pursuit of equity drives Briya's work. Through our
comprehensive, two-generation educational model, we seek to
overcome systemic oppression and partner with students to create
opportunities for all to thrive.
Competencies:
A successful Briya Manager will excel in the following ways:
- Skilled people manager -supports the individualized growth and
development of direct reports, provides clear direction so they can
perform effectively in their roles, initiates direct feedback and
offers supportive guidance when performance is not meeting
expectations, leads collaborative problem-solving within the team,
and removes barriers to team success.
- Effective implementer - understands the people and processes
required to effectively implement programs and initiatives; manages
multiple work streams to make progress and meet deadlines;
troubleshoots challenges and knows when to bring in additional
support for initiative success; balances detail-orientation with
big picture understanding to move work forward.
- Collaborator - builds relationships with partners and peers to
ensure smooth operational alignment, embrace opportunities and
solve challenges, and better meet the needs of student
families.
- Communicator - initiates timely communication with partners,
senior leaders, and supervisees to support the success of students,
programs, and initiatives; models transparent communication with
team members, supervisees, and leaders to support an open and
inclusive culture.
- Accountable - embraces managerial role by engaging others to
achieve goals, assuming responsibility for mistakes and solutions,
and inspiring themselves and others toward meeting commitments and
advancing the work of the school.
All Briya employees are also expected to excel in the following
competencies:
- Professionalism - Treats others with respect and consideration
regardless of their status or position. Follows established
policies and procedures to support the overall function of the
organization.
- Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures,
reports potentially unsafe conditions, and uses equipment and
materials properly.
- Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time,
adhering to a schedule pre-determined between the employee and the
supervisor.
- Dependability - Follows instruction and responds to management
direction. Takes responsibility for own actions.
- Teamwork - Can work well in multidisciplinary team setting with
a variety of cultural and educational backgrounds and experiences.
Contributes to building a positive team spirit, puts success of the
team above own interests, and supports colleagues' and students'
efforts to succeed.
Qualifications:
The Adult Education Manager must have the following knowledge,
skills and/or abilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.
Education and Experience
- Preferred master's degree in education or related
experience
- Demonstrated track record of success within Education, Adult
Education, Workforce Development, and/or related fields.
- Minimum of ten years of successful teaching, coaching and/or
teacher supervising experience, preferably with adult
learners.
- Experience working with Experience working with immigrant
populations, two-generation education programs, schools and
community-based organizations, student information systems,
educational technologies, in-person and virtual learning
environments, and highly collaborative work environments is
desired.
- English proficiency; Spanish proficiency strongly desired
(other languages a plus)
- Ability to work independently and without immediate
supervision
Reasoning Ability- Ability to apply common sense understanding to
carry out moderately complex, multi-step instructions and make
appropriate independent decisions as necessary.
Physical Demands- Regularly required standing, walking, and
sitting, sometimes for many hours at a time; frequently required to
reach with hands and arms, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or
hear; must be able to lift objects up to twenty-five pounds.
Work Environment - Primarily works in a typical office and
classroom setting with quiet to moderate noise level. Ability to
regularly travel around Washington, D.C. using personal and/or
public modes of transportation to work at all Briya locations. This
position typically works Monday - Friday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, and
occasionally needs to maintain work hours outside of these times,
including evenings and weekends.
Salary Range: $70,000- $75,000
Keywords: Mary's Center, Potomac , Adult Education Manager, Education / Teaching , Washington, Maryland
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