Main Responsibilities Of A Chief Academic Officer At Scholarship Prep Schools
Taylor's main responsibility as Chief Academic Officer at Scholarship Prep Schools is overseeing the entire academic program, a role that involves "supporting teachers directly as well as site leadership," curriculum development and purchasing, and ensuring consistency across multiple school sites through coaching and change management to best support student learning. This entails developing "the scholarship prep way" and implementing it across three counties while ensuring a strong instructional program.
Curriculum Development, Educational Leadership, Teacher Support and Development, Program Management, Change Management
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Taylor Ellis
Chief Academic Officer
Scholarship Prep Schools
UC Santa Barbara 2009
CSU Long Beach MA in Curriculum and Instruction, Administrative Services Credential
Anthropology, Sociology
Education
Strategic Management and Executive
Honors Student, Took Out Loans, Worked 20+ Hours in School
Video Highlights
1. Oversees the full academic program, supporting teachers and school leadership.
2. Manages curriculum adoption, evaluation, and purchasing.
3. Provides support for new teachers and works on org-wide systems to ensure consistent quality across multiple school sites. This includes a lot of on-site coaching, people management, and change management.
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What are your main responsibilities within your current world?
There are so many responsibilities in my current role. My main responsibility is to oversee our full academic program. That sounds very narrow, but it's actually very broad.
I support teachers directly as well as site leadership, so principals and assistant principals. I also handle all of our curriculum adoption, evaluation, and purchasing.
I support our induction program for new teachers. I also work with all of our org-wide systems. We run four school sites across three counties.
Each school site is unique, but every school is a Scholarship Prep school. A lot of my role is creating the Scholarship Prep way and then supporting sites in meeting those expectations. I also help develop their programs so that we best support teachers and students.
I do a lot of being on-site, coaching people, people management, and change management. This is really focused on ensuring the instructional program is strong, so our children are learning and growing.