At Mastery, we’re on a mission to provide all students with the academic and personal skills they need to succeed after graduation and pursue their dreams. Student achievement is not just a goal for our organization; it’s the reason we exist, and every member of our team is dedicated to securing student success. We are also committed to pursuing equity, actively disrupting systemic racism, and addressing the disparities that limit our students’ choices.

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Our STEM Fair will feature innovative projects from students in grades K-12 representing over 18 campuses across Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ. As a judge, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with these bright young minds, provide valuable feedback, and celebrate their hard work and creativity.

If you are interested in volunteering, please complete our Judges Registration Form. Additionally, we would greatly appreciate it if you could help spread the word to your networks to encourage others to get involved.

Questions? Contact Allison Porzillo at Allison.Porzillo@masterycharter.org.

Mastery’s Equity Vision

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to achieving our mission.

We strive to be an anti-racist school district that eliminates the inequities in academic achievement that limit our students’ choices; that cultivates classrooms where every student is affirmed, supported, and held to high expectations; and that nurtures a diverse organization where students, staff, and families are valued, respected, and included.

The Opportunity

Mastery Schools is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as Chief Equity Officer (CEQO) reporting directly to the CEO. Ultimately, the CEQO’s role is to ensure that equity is integrated into Mastery’s program model and organizational culture with the aim of fulfilling our vision to be a model urban public school district. As a senior leader, the CEQO will work closely with the CEO, Chiefs team, and school leaders to intentionally nurture a healthy, inclusive organizational culture. The CEQO will also work with the central Academic team, Student Development team, and school leaders to ensure equity is at the center of our ongoing program development and improvement initiatives. The CEQO will serve as a thought partner to central office and school leaders in implementing Mastery’s plans for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and culture.

Mastery recently developed a comprehensive Equity Plan that was developed in partnership with school leaders and board members. The plan was further shaped based on feedback from school leaders, teachers, parents, and central office staff during a 2 month review process. Ensuring the plan is well implemented will be the primary responsibility of the CEQO. The plan is a living document, and we fully expect the CEQO will influence and shape our approach to equity and the specifics of the plan over time. The work of equity is a central and unifying priority for the organization and the CEQO ensures that the work evolves and positively influences all aspects of the organization’s work.

The CEQO is expected to have expertise in the field of DEI and the wisdom, large organization experience, and mature leadership to be able to lead and support a comprehensive strategy that influences nearly every department across the network. The CEQO is a systems thinker and strategic problem solver. The CEQO’s work will primarily be executed through dotted line relationship with the central office department leads as well as school leaders. Funds have been reserved for an additional staff person or consultant(s) to support the CEQO’s work.

This position represents a compelling opportunity to be part of a charter management organization that is addressing perhaps the most difficult and important problem facing public education – the systemic failure of public school district to truly serve high poverty communities of color. Mastery is defining a new education model that incorporates the high expectations and a focus on developing the whole child. The CEQO will develop and implement a comprehensive equity program to support that mission.

Responsibilities

The CEQO will be responsible for developing the vision, strategy, and implementation in these primary areas:

• Equity Vision & Leadership

The CEQO will partner with the CEO and Chiefs Team to ensure equity is central to Mastery’s work; that the Equity Plan is implemented effectively; that results are monitored; and that plans adjusted and improved. The CEQO will work partner with the CEO to articulate an evolving equity vision for Mastery. The CEQO will also work with a Board Advisory Committee to monitor Mastery’s equity agenda.

• Organizational Culture, Health, & Inclusivity

Specifically, The CEQO Will

Mastery is committed to nurturing the health of the organization and creating an inclusive community of educators who feel supported and connected to Mastery’s mission. The CEQO will build upon this vision, working in partnership with the CEO, Chief Talent Officer, and the senior leadership team.

• Ensure Mastery’s values, most notably our Equity Value, lives and is nurtured in Mastery’s organizational culture.
• Staff receive professional development and support for working, managing, and leading in an organization that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Partner with the Talent Team to ensure our staff recruitment meets our diversity hiring goals – the ultimate aim of which is to have our staff reflect the diversity of our communities.
• Partner with the Chiefs, Chief Talent Officer, Principal Supervisors, and school leaders to ensure that staff retention and promotion is equitable.
• Partner with the Academic Team and Chief Talent Officer to ensure effective training and programming that recognizes the influence of race and identity on staff, families, and students and how it significantly frames Mastery’s effectiveness as educators and ability to build authentic relationships with students and families.

School Program: Specifically, The CEQO Will

We believe to achieve our mission, every student must be affirmed, supported, and held to high expectations. Accordingly, the CEQO partners with the Academic and Student Development Teams to ensure equity and inclusion is integrated in, and at the heart of, our work with students.

• Monitor our student equity metrics (academic growth & suspensions by subgroup), and partner with school leaders and the central office Academic & Student Development teams to identify and problem-solve issues.
• Partners with the central office Academic Team to support their work developing and supporting an instructional model that is relationship driven, culturally responsive, and effective.
• Partner with the Student Development team to support their work developing and supporting a school and classroom culture, as well as discipline system, that is student centered, relationship driven, culturally responsive, and effective.
• Work with the Specialized Service team to ensure IEP identification is not influenced by race, gender or other factors and to develop strategies to eliminate inequities in IEP identification.

Parents: The CEQO Will

We believe to achieve our mission, parents must be true partners with Mastery in the education of their children. We recognize that staff’s ability to build authentic relationships with parents is a prerequisite to an effective partnership.

Ensure effective training for staff is developed and implemented aimed at enabling staff to develop quality relationships with parents.

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This year Mastery Schools began using the FOSS curriculum with students in grades 3-8. The inquiry-based approach to science has transformed how students and teachers from across Mastery Schools are engaging with STEM curriculum. Veteran teachers Julia Rasamy and Deraurah Wilson will lead participants through a hands on inquiry-based demonstration lesson using every day household items followed by a discussion and share out from all those who attend. Leave this PD with lessons to bring into the 2018-19 school year, a bucket of resources to use in the classroom and a notebook full of ideas for planning great science lessons.

Materials and dinner will be provided. Sign up today – seats are limited!

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Mastery schools are organized around a common vision: “Mastery schools are joyful, authentic communities where students learn how to think critically and act independently so they are truly prepared for post-secondary success.” Mastery’s work is rooted in an unwavering belief that their students can achieve at the highest levels. To fulfill this vision, Mastery recognizes that it must attend to the whole child – Mastery values personal as well as academic skills, and schools match their high expectations for students with high levels of support.

For more information about the organization, please visit Mastery’s website: http://masterycharter.org.

Position Summary
Mastery seeks an exceptional leader to serve as our network Director of College Readiness. The Director is responsible for building systems to ensure our campus-based staff effectively advise, guide, and place our students in the appropriate 4-year, 2 -year, technical, trade, service, or work placements. Ultimately, the goal of the Director of College Readiness is to ensure our students are placed and persist through graduation at chosen post-secondary educational or work placements. The dominant focus of the Director of College Readiness is to direct and support college advising program implementation at Mastery’s seven secondary campuses. The Director of College Readiness will work directly with school-based leaders and post-secondary staff to build and sustain highly effective college and career readiness programming across 11th and 12th grades.

Mastery is a national leader in effective college and career placement programming in low-income urban schools. We are proud that Mastery students graduate college at 3x their peer averages. Our College and Career program has been refined over 10 years and has supported over 4,000 Mastery graduates and presently serves 2,500 students across the network. We maintain a highly skilled and functioning team and believe it is our responsibility to connect students to post-secondary success.

The Post-secondary Program leverages a bi-weekly seminar, exposure programming and strong advising to support students in finding the right and appropriate post-secondary path. Programming highlights include:

• 16-week Internship Experience in 10th or 11th grade
• Advising program informed by historical student data and current post-secondary landscape
• Heavy focus on post-secondary fit, with a significant emphasis on affordability
• Network-wide events, including our annual College Fair and Affinity Partnership Events

This position is a fantastic opportunity for an extraordinary leader – the opportunity to create a best-in-class public school post-secondary placement system that aligns to a variety of post-secondary options, not simply college. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a relentless commitment to excellence and will share a deep belief in Mastery’s mission. The right candidate will have a track record of program development, experience managing programming at scale, and knowledge of the post-secondary access to success pipeline.

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Mastery Charter Prep Middle School is seeking individuals and/or organizations to lead after school programs and activities for 7th-8th grade students.

Desired programs include but are not limited to:
• Martial Arts
• LGBTQ Safe Space
• Girls/Boys Scouts
• Art Therapy

After-school groups meet twice a week and groups range from 10-20 students.  Group facilitators will be paid at a rate of $25/hr.

Started in 2013, Mastery Charter Prep Middle is a joyful and authentic school that prioritizes student achievement. Our deep belief and high support provide our students with the tools they each need to succeed, to serve and thrive within our community.

All volunteers must have PA Criminal Background, Child Abuse, and FBI Fingerprints from within the past 2 years.
This program requires a 2x weekly commitment following the academic year for Session 1 (September to December) with an option to continue through Session 2 (January to June).

Child Abuse / Criminal Background / FBI Fingerprints:

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Potential volunteers should contact Naaila Gray, Family & Community Engagement Manager at naaila.gray@masterycharter.org or 267-514-5660.

About Mastery:
Mastery Charter Schools believes that educational inequity is the single most pressing social problem facing our country — the civil rights issue of our day. Mastery exists to solve the problem. Our vision is that our schools are joyful, authentic communities where students learn how to think critically and act independently so they are truly prepared for post-secondary success

Mastery currently operates 21 schools in Philadelphia and Camden serving 12,000 students in grades K through 12. Mastery is a national leader in school turnarounds – ten of our schools were formerly struggling district schools. Mastery operates these schools as true neighborhood public schools, maintaining a neighborhood catchment and enrolling students regardless of academic level or disability. We are proud that all of our turnaround schools have had dramatic improvements in student achievement while increasing neighborhood student retention. Mastery aspires to run exceptional neighborhood schools that demonstrate that all students can achieve at the highest level.

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• The ability to influence and mentor a group of exceptional Mastery students;
• The opportunity for mentors within your organization to become a member of Friends of Mastery, which offers networking opportunities for mentors;
• A single contact at Mastery to support the partnership;
• Regular communication providing program updates and tips for mentors;
• Training specific to the partnership site conducted by Mastery before students start their internship.

Mastery Team members would to have the opportunity to speak with you about becoming a Mastery Internship Partner for the 2014-2015 school year. If this is an opportunity that is of interest to you, please respond with the best way to contact you so that I can set up a brief introduction to Mastery’s program.

Thank you in advance and I look forward to speaking with you about our Mastery Internship Partners program!

Chanell Bates
Director of Postsecondary Initiatives
Mastery Charter Schools
5700 Wayne Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19144
(267) 838-1327 (c)
Chanell.Bates@masterycharter.org

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Plan, lead and teach Junior College Prep Curriculum
• Support the College Advisor to meet all college initiatives team goals by assisting with college applications, application office hours, FAFSA completion, family meetings, college rep visits and college trips
• Promote college culture related initiatives throughout the school year by helping to develop signage throughout the building, meet with families, attend whole school events and push into Mastery Classes, SEL Classes and Community Meetings
• Manage the 9th and 11th grade college initiatives program that includes assisting with all college related orientation materials and orientation classes especially those related to 9th and 11th grade students, providing the 9th and 11th grade team with College Continuum goals for the year, managing the transcript review process with all 9th and 11th grade students, one on ones with each 11th grade student to provide guidance in both college and career planning, and participating in Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Plan and coordinate all college admission testing and prep including PSAT, SAT, Aspire, ACT and Mock ACT
• Manage the Ellis Trust program for girls in all grades
• Manage the Summer Opportunities program and goals for all grades
• Manage the dual enrollment application process for all programs and grades
• Meet with all interested families regarding the Mastery @ CCP program
• Track community service for all 9th and 11th grade students
• Assist College Team with graduation planning, college fair planning and College Signing Day preparation
• Attend Grade Level Mtngs. as necessary
• Participate in all College Initiative Team Professional Development

Qualifications:
• Familiarity with aspects of college counseling and college retention programs including financial aid, transfer processes, matriculation challenges and other barriers faced by low-income, first-generation college students;
• Exceptional organization skills – a detail-oriented approach to multi-task and meet deadlines under pressure;
• Strong proficiency with database systems – start-up and ongoing support/maintenance
• Ability to gather data, compile information and prepare reports as well as analyze data in order to make improvement recommendations
• Excellent communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills both orally and in writing with ability to effectively connect with broad range of constituents including alumni, their families, secondary and post-secondary school staff/leaders
• Comfort and demonstrated ability to successfully facilitate and engage various size groups;
• Track-record of high achievement (premium placed on experience in urban communities and schools);
• Personal drive and commitment to serve urban youth
• Deep belief in one’s own ability to significantly increase college going, persistence and graduation rates for Mastery alums
• Ability to effectively work alone and with a high-performing, mission-driven staff;
• Consistently evaluates progress, using data to drive changes in alumni support program;
• Demonstrated resilience to persevere and turn challenges into opportunities while meeting aggressive goals despite limited resources
• Ability to be a self-starter and creative problem solver while also being a quick learner who is willing to ask questions and seek feedback.

Education and Experience:
Bachelors degree required. Work with urban youth in educational settings in related college access and college retention fields.

Physical Requirements:
Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required such as maneuvering in classrooms and office space-reaching file cabinets, filing, faxing, scanning, coping, typing, mailing, and making phone calls; Must be able to sit for up to two (2) hours looking at a computer monitor, using a keyboard/mouse and typing.