Job Description

School: Girls Athletic Leadership School (GALS)

Job Title: Coordinator of Student Services

Classification: Administrator/School Leadership, Advisor, Operations/Business Office/Administrative

Work Year: 2010-2011

Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver
The Girls Athletic Leadership School (GALS) seeks a team to lead a successful school start-up.  Opening in 2010-2011, GALS is a new expeditionary learning public charter school serving 200 girls in 6th and 7th grades, growing one grade at a time until reaching full capacity of 700 girls grades 6-12.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Reporting directly to the principal, the coordinator of student services will design and lead all of GALS’ co-curricular programs, including: advisories, heath and wellness programs, after-school enrichment programming, character education and student discipline.  In addition to designing and overseeing these programs, the coordinator of student services will be responsible for securing the volunteers needed to implement them.


QUALITIES SOUGHT
For all available positions, GALS seeks candidates who demonstrate:

Mission alignment: Belief in GAL’s mission of providing a college preparatory education in a supportive environment that fosters the academic mastery and personal development necessary for every young woman to become a powerful advocate for herself and leader of her community.  Experience in gender-specific and movement-based educational environments a plus. 

Pedagogical alignment: Belief that learning expeditions—or long-term, in-depth studies that focus on specific case studies— help students construct deep understandings and skills and prepare them to create authentic products that meet a need for real audiences.   Ability to differentiate, utilize data to drive instruction, and employ constructivist instructional skills.  Experience developing expeditionary curriculum and/or teaching in an EL school a plus.

Entrepreneurial spirit: Ability to thrive in the ambiguity and intensity of a start-up environment.

Team Orientation:  Ability to work collaboratively in a professional learning community by jointly planning and delivering instruction; participating fully in professional developing; and engaging in an on-going exchange of ideas.

Drive for excellence: Hard-working, self-starter who takes initiative and is committed to learning and self-improvement.

Qualifications:  No Child Left Behind (NCLB) compliant. Previous teaching and/or administrative experience.  Strong classroom management and organizational skills.  Urban school experience and experience with diverse communities preferred. Certification required.

GALS PROGRAM OVERVIEW: (For more information visit www.galschools.org)
To achieve our mission, we offer an extended school day consisting of the following components:

Expeditionary Learning: Learning expeditions serve as the primary way of organizing our curriculum. Learning expeditions, or in-depth case studies, are aligned with district and state standards and feature projects and fieldwork that demand students to develop higher order skills.

Movement-Based:  As opposed to relegating movement to physical education class or after-school sports, at GALS we incorporate movement into day-to-day instruction and classroom activity as a way of engaging students both mentally and phyically. 

Wellness: We offer a full advisory/crew curriculum focused on the psycho-social dynamics of growing up female in today’s world.  All staff participates in and support this curriculum.

Liberal Arts: Students follow a rigorous liberal-arts academic program that will prepare them for four-year colleges and universities and that includes world language and electives.

Tight-Knit Community:  Through advisories, community meetings, shared core values, and opportunities for students and teachers to connect both in and outside the classroom, GALS emphasizes the development of a close learning community. 

Please send your resume and a personal statement explaining 1) for what position you are applying; 2) how your interests and professional experiences align with and qualify you to be part of GALS’s vision and mission; 3) the challenges you anticipate encountering working in an urban start-up school. 

Documents should be in Word format sent via email to hiring@galschools.org  While resumes will be accepted until all positions are filled, those received by February 5th will be given priority consideration. Candidates invited to move to the interview round will be expected to partake in a series of simulation exercises, including teaching to the hiring committee.

Elizabeth A. Wolfson, Founder
Girls Athletic Leadership Schools
740 Bella Vista Drive
Louisville, CO  80027
phone  401.644.1863
WWW.GALSCHOOLS.ORG 

Date Posted: 2010-01-11

Closing Date: 2010-04-12