SY24-25 Emergence Academy School Culture Manager - Springfield Public Schools

Emergence Academy: Student Culture Manager

About Emergence Academy

Emergence Academy is the Springfield Empowerment Zone’s (SEZP) English Language Learner program targeting the language development of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). The SLIFE Program will support students to build critical language skills, focusing on improving their reading and writing abilities through leveled guided reading, phonics, writing curriculum, as well as through hands-on Science instruction. Math skills will also be targeted through instruction rooted in Common Core standards as well as through math fluency remediation to target key foundational math skills.

By supporting teachers to develop high-quality curriculum, develop active monitoring plans, collect meaningful data, and plan targeted weekly remediation, we will support accelerated student language development by individualizing our responses to student needs. Additionally, by partnering with students and families we will support students to meet high expectations and build the habits necessary for accelerated academic growth and future academic success in high school and college.

Student Culture Manager Responsibilities

The Student Culture Manager will work to ensure that students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and internalize the school’s values. The Student Culture Manager will lead the school’s efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture.

Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain and further develop a joyful, structured, achievement-oriented school culture
• Supervise the full time staff on the culture team
• Provide proactive, daily support to teachers and students to maintain high behavioral expectations to include student check-ins as needed/requested by school staff
• Manage the process for student referrals to the office
• Develop and support behavior intervention plans and accommodations for students with behavioral difficulties in conjunction with grade level teams
• Communicate with families regarding behavior concerns
• Support during non-instructional times such as homeroom, break and lunch
• Lead school culture incentives (i.e. dances, homeroom competitions, attendance incentives)
• Coordinate field trips
• Maintain the Friday Community Meeting calendar and coordinating activities
• Coordinate clubs and Joy Time activities
• Manage the hallway and other coverage as needed
• Other duties as assigned by the Principal or other administrator

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college;
• 3-5 years of relevant experience or 1 or more years in a management capacity;
• A deep desire to work with educationally underserved student populations and their families;
• An unwavering commitment to the academic success and personal development of our students;
• An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them; 
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills; 
• A sense of humility;
• Experience in an urban setting
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If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

We encourage you to reach out to Principal Amanda Gauthier at gauthiera@springfieldpublicschools.com  if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, including Lyceum College Prep Academy, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com