[YEP-DC] Exciting opportunities with the DC Public Schools Teacher Effectiveness Strategy Team

I wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity to be a part of D.C. Public Schools' work to transform public education. We are hiring for positions on the DC Public Schools Teacher Effectiveness Strategy Team in the Office of Human Capital.

 

The Office of Human Capital is at the center of many of the Chancellor's most important reforms, which focus on what has come to be recognized as the most critical school-based factor in driving student achievement: teacher quality. Under the direction of Jason Kamras, the office works toward the goal of having a highly effective teacher in every DCPS classroom through a range of initiatives spanning teacher recruitment, selection, compensation, evaluation, recognition, and retention. In the 2009-2010 school year, DCPS implemented a groundbreaking new teacher evaluation system, IMPACT. Other key initiatives to come out of the Office of Human Capital over the past two years include a revolutionary teachers' contract and an innovative performance pay system designed to provide the best educators in DCPS with an unprecedented level of compensation for the extraordinary work that they do. This work places DCPS at the vanguard of the national education policy landscape, as states and districts, spurred by the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top grant program, increasingly focus on teacher quality and look to DCPS initiatives as models of best practice.

 

The  Teacher Effectiveness Strategy Team is charged with driving the strategic work that continues to push the district toward our goal of having the strongest educator force in the nation. The team's work includes implementing DCPS's new, cutting edge teacher career ladder initiative; continuing to refine and improve the district's teacher evaluation and performance pay systems; developing and executing new teacher effectiveness strategies related to recognition, retention, and extending the reach of our best teachers; and conducting outreach to teachers, principals, and other educators.Our goal is to be the first public school district to close the achievement gap – and to serve as an example for the rest of the country that this audacious goal can be achieved.

Will you join us?

For more information about the positions available on our team, please see the attached position descriptions. If you have any questions, please send an email to elizabeth.smyth@dc.gov.  

 

Best,

Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth Smyth

Coordinator

Teacher Effectiveness Strategy

 

Office of Human Capital

District of Columbia Public Schools

1200 First Street, NE
Washington, DC  20002
T  202.724.2232
F  202.442.5026
E  elizabeth.smyth@dc.gov

W http://dcps.dc.gov

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