Texas Executive Director

Texas Executive Director (Remote-based in Texas) What We Do Teach Plus is a national nonprofit whose mission is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success. At the heart of our work is developing teacher leadership and voice in pursuit of student outcomes. We believe that investing in our most talented teachers—developing them into well-informed, persuasive leaders—gives them deep leverage in elevating the most pressing education issues facing students, teachers, and communities while advancing opportunities for students. Learn more at http://teachplus.org. Teach Plus Executive Director Role At Teach Plus, our Student Opportunity Mandate calls us to pursue long-term, measurable, and systemic change on behalf of students, educators, and communities. Reporting to the Chief Regional Impact and Operations Officer, the Executive Director (ED) sets the vision and leads the execution of strategies that drive this impact within their state. As a sophisticated systems leader and trusted subject matter expert, the Executive Director serves as a credible convener and strategic power broker, building relationships and advancing initiatives that address the most pressing challenges facing students, communities, and educators. While the role includes core responsibilities and requires specific skills, mindsets, and leadership orientations, its success depends on the ability to navigate a highly contextual and evolving landscape. The Executive Director must continuously assess the role that both they and Teach Plus should play within the local ecosystem, adapting strategy to meet changing opportunities and needs. This position is based in Texas and requires regular travel throughout the state, with occasional national travel as needed. The Foundational Executive Director Responsibilities Include: 1. Setting a Vision for Local Impact, Grounded in Strategic Clarity: Through an iterative approach, Executive Directors must be able to continuously: - Understand and describe (both internally to the organization and to external partners) evidence and case studies of prior student outcomes improvement, the drivers that led to this success, and the patterns around those drivers as they specifically relate to advocacy and teacher leadership - Concretely articulate the gaps between the current state of student outcomes and the aspirations of students, families, and communities, and set ambitious goals/and or strategies to close these gaps, centered on tangible outcomes for students - In partnership with other organizations and coalition members, develop a sophisticated theory of change and theory of action/logic model around what is required to advance these student outcomes goals and the particular role Teach Plus (teachers, alumni, Executive, and institution) must play as a result 1. Advancing Teacher Leadership, Voice, and Advocacy towards our Student Opportunity Mandate: In partnership with Center teams at Teach Plus and local partners, EDs must: - Establish and continuously evolve local models for teacher learning and leadership aligned with Teach Plus’s Leadership Attribute Continuum and Policy Attributes and Competencies - In partnership with the Center and external partners, use sophisticated data, measurement, and evaluation structures to continuously assess and improve teacher engagement models, including accountability models for managing staff towards effective execution of these programs 1. Identify best practices for language, expectations, implementation, and accountability across policy and practice programs to support quality programming. - Through iterative strategic clarity work, co-create and effectively invest educators in a sophisticated annual or multi-year policy agenda, focused on advancing our Student Opportunity Mandate - Co-create and revise contextualized local curricula and learning experiences to prepa…