Upper School Head of Faculty and Curriculum

Job Description

Kansas City Christian School

Position: Upper School Head of Faculty & Curriculum  
Location: Kansas City Christian School, Prairie Village, KS
Job Type: Full-Time
Start Date: June 2025

About Kansas City Christian School:
Kansas City Christian School is a Christ-centered educational institution dedicated to fostering academic excellence and spiritual growth in a nurturing environment. Our mission is to partner with families to prepare students to live and serve as followers of Christ, equipped for leadership and service in their communities.

Job Summary:
Kansas City Christian School seeks a passionate, experienced, and qualified Administrator to join our dedicated team. The ideal candidate will create a safe, engaging, and faith-based learning environment that fosters the academic, emotional, social, and spiritual development of young learners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversight and management of the Upper School Support Staff
  • School Counselor
  • 6-12 Administrative Assistant

• Establishment, management, and communication of academic vision to all constituents:
  • Proactive communication of overall school goals pertaining to academics, to principals, teachers, students, parents, and the community at large.

• Oversight and management of the comprehensive faculty evaluation processes including:
• Provide consistent leadership for teacher observations and evaluation processes and system
• Perform formal and informal teacher observation working alongside the Elementary Principal
• File all records and documentation for staff certification and transcripts
• Oversight of faculty improvement plans as necessary
• Annual review of evaluation protocols and tools
• Facilitate annual review meetings (final evaluations, retention decisions, promotion decisions) with administrative team
• Oversight and facilitation of 6-12 Academic Support Systems, including:
• Academic Support Systems:
  • Supervision of Academic Support Staff
  • Create and implement academic support plans for individual students in coordination with Academic Support Staff
  • Consult with Academic Support to maintain academic and behavior support plans
  • Work with parents going through evaluation and IEP process in coordination with Academic Support Staff
  • Run MS/HS Academic support meetings 2x per month
  • Attend IEP/504 meetings for students receiving or seeking services from other school districts

• Oversight and management of faculty certification, both state certification and ACSI certification tracks including:
• Management of CEU’s; mentoring teacher records and other items relating to faculty certification;
• Regular review and management of certification records, deficiencies, and needs
• Oversight of faculty certification plans as necessary

• Title I/ Title IV:
• Attend meetings at SMSD
• Coordinate funding for professional development opportunities
• Keep active roster of KCC students in SMSD district eligible for Title funds

• Oversight and management for the following areas:
• Testing Data:
  • Oversee annual standardized testing K-12: AP, PSAT, Pre-ACT, MAP
  • Algebra readiness testing
  • Maintain system of records for testing data
  • Develop and maintain strategy for using and communicating testing data to applicable constituents

• Accreditation:
  • Co-chair with Elementary Principal
  • Coordinate plan for review prep
  • Facilitate teacher work
  • Student and teacher annual surveys
  • Review and complete annual accreditation reports including updating the SIP and Strategic Plan, gathering documentation for evidence for compliance report, updating staff certification reports for CSI and completing
• Quality Assurance of New Teaching Staff:
  • Annual review of hiring practices and processes; application, interviews, guest teaching, etc.
  • Review of all applications and resumes for 6-12 teaching positions
  • Interview (with appropriate administrative team members) of all applicants for teaching positions
  • Establish pipelines of quality teaching applicants
    • Cultivate relationships with education department’s at identified institutions
    • Facilitate student-teacher opportunities at the school
  • Direct the new teacher program, providing training and support for first year teachers at the school

• Management of 6-12 Teacher Evaluation and Promotion System:
  • Management of evaluation schedule for administrative team
• Facilitate annual review meetings (final evaluations, retention decisions, promotion decisions) with administrative team
• Oversight of performance benchmarks for all 6-12 faculty and staff.
• Monday: Check all lesson plans, send emails, document for evaluation day
• Check to ensure that teachers are putting their grades in (2 per week), send emails if needed, document for evaluation day.
• Check to ensure grades are distributed evenly across grade categories

• Management of Teacher Development in coordination with Amy M.:
  • Coordinate all teacher in-service days; start of year; quarterly; and end of year
  • Coordinate in-house professional development opportunities as established in academic strategic plan
  • Coordinate budget with Amy M. for outside professional development opportunities, and ensure these trainings are in line with academic vision
  • Oversee all teacher improvement plans, providing accountability, support and feedback
  • Collaborative Facilitation of Worldview and Spiritual Formation Systems:
  • Guide teachers in implementing Worldview into their classrooms
    • Including practical application
    • Including designated programs as determined by the Head of School

• Oversight and Management of the K-12 Curriculum:
  • Management of Curriculum:
    • Create and maintain annual review cycle of curriculum, ensuring all subjects/courses are being examined on schedule
    • Annual review and update of philosophies, student learning objectives, resources, programs, and order of instructions for the yearly scheduled academic areas as defined by the curriculum review cycle
    • Maintain effective documentation of learning objectives and curriculum
    • Create High School Course Catalog, Middle School Curriculum Sequence, and Elementary Curriculum Sequence annually
    • Order all curriculum K-12 annually, sort all curriculum, and distribute all curriculum

• Implementation of Curriculum, Resources, and Programs
  • Provide initial training and ongoing teacher support to ensure quality implementation
  • Measure outcomes of implementation
• Academic Research:
  • Stay current on research and established best practices for teacher development, curriculum development, and educational psychology

• • Course Scheduling for MS and HS

• Prepare all course scheduling worksheets for 6-12
• Prepare Course Offering Presentation and present at parent night
• Prepare Incoming Freshman Presentation and present at parent night after science fair
• Create the Master Schedule and Room Usage for each school year
• Create all courses in FACTS, assign rooms in FACTS, create schedule for all courses in FACTS
• Audit all HS transcripts prior to creating any schedules
• Create schedules for all HS courses
• Oversee all MS schedules that Guidance Counselor and Administrative Assistant create

• Oversight and Management of the Advanced Placement and Dual Credit Programs:
• Coordinate all AP training sessions for AP teachers.
• Oversee Guidance Counselor’s management of rostering and testing for the AP classroom
• Oversee Guidance Counselor’s AP compliance for all AP courses with the College Board
• Work with Dual Credit partners: Johnson County Community College, MidAmerica Nazarene University, and Evangel University
  • Select courses each spring for the upcoming year and verify with the partners
  • Ensure that all teachers are cleared to teach the proposed courses
  • Oversee the teachers and achieve approval for courses, syllabi, and expectations
  • Communicate opportunities to families
  • Work with students to register and pay for the courses
  • Check in weekly with the students and record grades for all approved courses
• FACTS, Gradebook, and Report Cards:
  • Create and maintain profiles for all staff in FACTS
  • Train New Teachers
  • Create and maintain all auto reports from gradebook for FACTS
  • Troubleshoot any issues with new or current teachers
  • Keep up to date on changes within the FACTS system
  • Become an “expert” on all things FACTS to understand if we are fully utilizing the FACTS system
  • Verify that all gradebooks 6-12 follow all options, settings, and calculating requirements
  • Manually bump all honors, AP, and DC grades at the end of each semester
  • Send out report cards at the end of each quarter

• Coordinate Foreign Exchange Student Program:
  • Work with partners to determine acceptance guidelines and success of potential students
  • Check in with students as needed to support their overall academics
  • Work with partners as needed for compliance and communicate status of overall success of student

• High School Records and Compliance:
• Stay current on Kansas Graduation Requirements and Kansas Qualified Admissions Requirements in order to guide updating graduation requirements
• Keep KCC’s graduation requirements updated and rigorous
• Maintain Parchment relationship and assist Guidance Counselor in records request as needed
• Maintain compliance with NAIA and NCAA for course approval and complete for students seeking scholarships as needed with Guidance Counselor

• Meetings:
• Upper School Divisional Meeting: 2x per month (You Lead)
• Middle School Divisional Meeting: 2x per month (You Lead)
• New Teacher Training Meeting: 2x per month (You Lead)
• Professional Learning Community:2x per month (You Lead)
• Eligibility each week after mid-quarter with MS and HS Athletic Director
• Administrative Team meetings weekly
• Calendar meetings weekly
• Send out weekly email to US Staff about details for the week and upcoming events and dates
• College Prep Meetings fall and spring with parents
• Financial Aid Meeting fall with parents
• Incoming Freshman Meeting winter with parents
• HS Course Scheduling spring with parents
• Family meeting for all prospective families prior to acceptance all year as needed

• Major Events:
• Panther Palooza (You Lead Scheduling Table)
• Middle School Preview (You Speak)
• First Day of School (You Speak)
• Upper School Back to School Night (You Lead)
• New Family Breakfast (Attend/Help)
• 6^th Grade Onboarding (Attend/Help)
• 9^th Grade Onboarding (Attend/Help)
• Serve Day (Attend/Help)
• In-Service Days 4 per year (You Lead)
• College Prep/Financial Aid Meetings 3 per year (Attend/Help)
• MAP Testing K-8 fall and spring (You Lead)
• PSAT (Help)
• Parent Teacher Conferences (Lead/Attend/Help)
• Christmas Concert (Attend/Help)
• Science Fair (Attend/Help)
• Incoming Freshman Meeting (You Lead)
• Auction (Attend)
• Dances (Attend all for at least 1^st hour/Deal with Dress Code)
• Course Scheduling Meeting (You Lead)
• Pre-ACT (Help)
• Graduation Rehearsal (Attend/Help/Lead)
• Graduation (Prepare Building/Attend/Help/Lead)
• Management of Budgetary Items Relating to the Areas Listed Above

Application Process:
Interested candidates should submit the following:

1. A cover letter highlighting your qualifications, teaching philosophy, and faith journey.
2. A current resume.
3. Three professional references.

Cover letter and resume should be emailed to Jared Barker, jbarker@mykccs.org

Deadline for Application:
Until Filled

Kansas City Christian School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability.