Queen Creek Unified School District · 5 hours ago
Director of Professional Learning K12 2026-2027 School Year
Queen Creek, AZ
Part-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveQueen Creek Unified School District is seeking a Director of Professional Learning to provide districtwide leadership for high-quality professional learning focused on mathematics. The role involves designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning initiatives to strengthen educator practices and improve student achievement.
Education Management
Responsibilities
Lead the design, delivery, and evaluation of professional learning across all content areas (with an emphasis on mathematics), ensuring alignment to district curriculum, instructional frameworks, and strategic goals
Develop and implement a comprehensive PK-12 professional learning plan that promotes coherence, consistency, and continuous improvement across schools
Expand and oversee a robust coaching model that increases capacity from a small district team to 6 site- and district-based mathematics coaches, ensuring daily, job-embedded instructional support for teachers
Establish clear coaching roles, expectations, and accountability measures to ensure consistency, effectiveness, and alignment to district math goals
Support the development of math coaches, interventionists, and instructional leaders through ongoing training, calibration, and performance monitoring
Provide leadership for mathematics professional learning as a district priority, strengthening educator content knowledge, instructional practices, and assessment literacy across grade levels
Ensure mathematics professional learning reflects research-based practices that promote conceptual understanding, problem-solving, mathematical discourse, and access to rigorous instruction
Ensure professional learning and coaching practices reinforce district-adopted curriculum, instructional frameworks, and assessment systems
Collaborate with Elementary and Secondary Teaching and Learning Coordinators to maintain coherence across PK-12 systems
Provide job-embedded modeling, co-planning, and coaching to teachers, instructional coaches, and interventionists across content areas, with targeted support in mathematics instruction and intervention
Build the capacity of site and district leaders to support high-quality mathematics teaching and learning
Collaborate with Elementary and Secondary Teaching and Learning Coordinators to ensure professional learning is coherent and consistent across schools and grade spans
Partner with curriculum, assessment, and instructional teams to align professional learning with adopted materials, assessments, and instructional expectations in all content areas, with emphasis on mathematics
Use student achievement data, instructional data, and educator feedback to design, adjust, and evaluate professional learning across content areas
Support educators in using formative and summative assessment data to inform instruction and intervention, particularly in mathematics
Stays informed on emerging technologies, best practices, and educational trends. Evaluates new tools and pilots innovative solutions to assess their effectiveness
Develops, coordinates, and delivers K-12 G-Suite training and implementation to empower educators with effective 21st-century learning tools
Provides professional development in the area of technology skills integration and innovative teaching and learning strategies
Continuously evaluates and implements new technology applications, best practices, and support systems to improve teaching and learning
Supports the district's academic priorities by collaborating with educators and leaders to implement research-based strategies, monitor progress, and ensure continuous improvement that leads to measurable gains in student achievement
Performs other job-related duties as assigned to advance district priorities
Qualification
Required
Valid Arizona Teaching Certificate Required
Valid Arizona K-12 Administrative Certificate Required
Deep knowledge of research-based mathematics instruction, intervention, and assessment practices
Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating high-quality professional learning and job-embedded coaching for educators
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with site and district leaders to ensure instructional coherence and consistency across PK-12 systems
Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to prioritize tasks effectively
Demonstrated ability to provide training and support to users of educational technology platforms, with a strong focus on customer service
Deep knowledge of Arizona Academic Standards
Ability and technical skills to retrieve and analyze student data
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Must pass a background clearance
Must obtain an Arizona IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card
Preferred
School Level Administrative Experience Preferred
Company
Queen Creek Unified School District
Queen Creek Unified School District consists of nine elementary schools, two junior high schools, and three high schools.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Amber Stouard
Chief Financial Officer
Patty Rogers, Ed.D.
Chief Human Resources Officer
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