Summary:
Within the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools' Office of School Options and Innovation, the Department of Career and Technical Education (CTE) provides project-based, career-focused learning to accelerate students along the path to success in college and careers. Learning is both classroom and work based with all high school programs of study articulating to industry credentials, 2 year degrees and/or 4 year degrees. CTE also supports the work of our middle and early colleges where students simultaneously pursue a high school diploma and an Associates Degree and/or up to two years of transferrable college credit.
CTE is present in every CMS middle and high school and serves over 48,000 students.
Essential Duties: (These duties represent a sample and may vary by position.)
Curriculum and Instructional Support Responsibilities:
- Supports curriculum implementation, at the middle school level, for Project Lead the Way (PLTW) courses through Professional Development.
- Develops and aligns instructional supports to CMS district strategies.
- Coaches new teachers, and other teachers as needed, on instructional support implementation content for strong student outcomes.
- Works collaboratively with Instructional Facilitator Lead on new teacher licensure requirements.
- Collaborates with school level instructional coordinators to build on-going supports for teachers.
- Works closely with Pathway Leads to build professional learning communities for PLTW Gateway teachers.
- Analyzes data to identify areas of challenge and work in collaboration with teachers to implement solutions.
- Works collaboratively with middle school Pathway Leads in order to ensure common goals and outcomes.
- Works collaboratively with technology lead on middle school technology needs.
- Collaborate with CTE leadership on opening of programs.
Special Populations
- Serves as the Central Office Special Populations primary contact.
- Creates a protocol for situations that call for special populations.
Performs related duties as assigned.
Education and Experience:
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree and related CTE license
- Five years of teaching experience
- Hold a current CTE License relevant to middle school.
- Leadership experience in middle school, high school or organization.
Desirable
- Holds one or more PLTW MS course certifications.
- Currently MS CTE/PLTW teacher
- PLTW Master Teacher
- Master's degree
- Built, led and sustained a PLC
- Leadership experience in middle, high school or organization demonstrating project management with cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience coaching teachers and/or supervising teams.
Licensing / Certification Requirements: NC CTE Professional License
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:
- Knowledge of NC Standard Course of Study for CTE.
- Knowledge of CTE policies and regulations, work-based learning, and middle school PLTW design.
- Project planning capabilities, including ability to establish long-term vision and goals, and experience aligning and managing activities toward execution of identified goals.
- Self-starter with ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Ability to build trusting relationships and effectively work in a team.
- Leadership experience in identifying creative and innovative solutions which yields and promotes growth. Ability to problem solve, analyze data, and outline valid solutions and action steps.
- Ability and willingness to learn and adapt quickly amidst new and shifting priorities.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, organizational, and technology skills.
- Growth oriented mindset; reflective, self-aware, and driven to learn from setbacks.
- A record of success as demonstrated by superior academic and professional achievement.
# of Jobs 1.00
Teacher Scale Y
Minimum Educational Requirements Bachelors
Term 10 Month
Additional Job Information
Physical Requirements: The work is ambulatory, sedentary and transitioning between central office and school sites. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work at times requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights. The work requires activities frequently involving driving automotive equipment.
