*ABOUT LAVINIA GROUP
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At Lavinia Group, we close the opportunity gap by helping our partner schools achieve world-class literacy and math instruction through exceptional leader and teacher training. Since 2015, we've partnered with hundreds of schools to deliver transformative results for over 250,000 students.

Whether as superintendent, principal, or classroom teacher, each Lavinia Group team member has delivered phenomenal results on behalf of the students that they served. As a result of our collective experience, our approach is firmly anchored on the following:

• Intellectual Preparation: The key to excellent student outcomes is to invest like crazy in the adults. We must support leaders and teachers to be confident, passionate, and precise in their own ability to analyze texts and understand the content. In preparing to teach students the art of reading, writing, math, or social studies it’s intellectual preparation that matters most.
• Science of Reading: In an educational landscape that suffers from over-complexity, we clear the clutter and help teachers and leaders make sense of and practically implement research-based Science of Reading methods, including keeping meaning front and center. From structured literacy small groups to building background knowledge through content-based reading to decoding and phonological awareness, we support schools in literacy instruction that leads to fluent readers, sophisticated thinkers, and improved student outcomes.
• World-class Literature: In order for students to be great readers, they must fall in love with reading. In order for students to fall in love with reading, they must have the best literature at their fingertips and ample time to unpack, analyze, and discuss complex grade-level texts.
• Purposeful Problem Solving: If we want to prepare students to solve the problems of tomorrow, then we must prepare them to be problem solvers today. To do this, students need purposeful problems that go beyond simple calculations or the replication of a teacher model, and they need opportunities to reason independently, with partners, and as a class to make meaning from each of these tasks. Through varied problems and experiences, we watch students become mathematicians, ready to take on any new problem that comes their way.
• School-based Training: Just like kids, leaders and teachers learn best by doing. The training / execution gap emerges when ideas presented during professional development are not realized in practice. We preempt this by working with leaders and teachers where the rubber hits the road: in schools and in classrooms. Through our Rapid Improvement Cycle, which includes robust intellectual preparation, practice, and feedback we propel adult learning within our partner schools.

*ABOUT THE POSITION
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The Associate Director of Curriculum ensures Lavinia Group’s content meets the organization’s high standards for inquiry-driven, results-based, culturally responsive literacy curricula.

Reporting to the Director of Curriculum, the Associate Director contributes to the Lavinia Group’s content development, including vision setting, reviewing and giving feedback on units and lessons, writing lessons and units, contributing to text selection and book list creation, and developing supplemental materials, as needed. The Associate Director of Curriculum will play a critical role in managing the content development process, with a big emphasis on content review and feedback to curriculum writers. This role is an exciting opportunity for a skilled curriculum developer to contribute to Lavinia Group’s organizational mission to provide a high-quality curriculum to close the opportunity gap across the country.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Content Development

• Execute the vision of Lavinia Group's content development strategic plan by overseeing content development for a set of grades, including writing, reviewing, revising, and editing content for Lavinia Group’s K-5 ELA curriculum
• Responsible for holding an incredibly high bar for curriculum quality
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of instructional design and pedagogy
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts
• Collaborate within and across teams to develop curriculum and curriculum-support content
• Develop and support the development of curriculum resources with content and pedagogy of the highest quality and reflective of Lavinia Group’s core guiding principles
• Actively monitor and incorporate feedback to continuously improve the product
• Demonstrate an editorial sensibility, including the ability to:
• write and edit using precise and clear language
• proofread for accuracy and expression
• apply constructive feedback locally and globally in a timely manner
• implement revisions to project design and content
• produce consistent content and quality across products

Project Execution

• Support and develop curriculum writers
• Complete the appropriate scope and sequence of work within the timeline required at each phase
• Communicate clearly within and across teams
• Exemplify a mindset that values an iterative cycle of ideation, thought partnering, prototyping, drafting, development, review, and revision
• Work independently in a remote environment
• Adhere to a task and deadline-driven workflow

Relevant Experience and Skills

• Deep content knowledge in elementary and/or middle school English Language Arts with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in an associated content area

• Superior writing and communication skills with demonstrated writing ability (writing sample required)

• Teaching experience preferred
• Content knowledge in the area of History or Science preferred

• Experience with teaching multilingual learners and diverse learner populations preferred

• Knowledge of the Common Core State Standards desired

Ideal Attributes

• Demonstrates a collaborative spirit
• Works well with others both within and across teams
• Receptive to multiple viewpoints
• Contributes to a big-picture vision

• Demonstrates ownership
• Receives feedback well and applies the feedback to future work
• Problem solves proactively and thinks flexibly

• Builds relationships effectively
• Maintains a commitment to excellence and incredibly high standards

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
We offer a wide variety of benefits, including flexible time off, maternity/paternity leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 403b.

Compensation range for this position: $90,000 - $120,000

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY Lavinia Group urgently focuses on closing the opportunity gap that has existed in public education for decades, disproportionately affecting students of color. We operate with the deep belief that our world, our schools, and our team are made stronger by respecting, listening to, and amplifying the voices of the communities we serve and the world around us. Therefore, our curricular offerings, our work together, and our work with schools, reflect a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We strive to deliver services, products, and practices that are deeply rooted in equity for all children.

Lavinia Group is committed to building a diverse team to contribute to this work. We seek individuals of all backgrounds to apply for this position. Lavinia Group provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and prohibits discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socioeconomic background or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We encourage all who share our mission to apply.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

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