Wyoming City School District Job Description Job Title: Innovation Specialist/Fab Lab Reports To: Building Principal FLSA Status: Certified, preference Board Approved: March 10,2020
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Job Description
Job Title: Innovation Specialist/Fab Lab
Reports To: Building Principal
FLSA Status: Certified, preference
Board Approved: March 10,2020
Revised Date: March 10, 2020
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This professional provides leadership in developing, designing, and collaborating on
transformational learning as a tool While maintaining the research and innovation center, this profesional leads students in the use of innovation thinking, practices, resources, and materials and serves as a resource person to the teaching staff on innovation and the design process (ideation, research, creation, and presentation)
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following Other duties may be assigned
Essential Responsibilities:
● Empowers the learning community to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers,
skillful researchers, and ethical users of information
● Fosters exploration, discovery, and innovation in a growth mindset
● Develops and maintains a teaching and learning environment that is fun, inviting, safe, flexible, collaborative, inclusive, and conducive to learning
● Empowers learners to work with each other in successful collaborations and to
constructively assess their own work and the work of their peers
● Models and develops a commitment to respect diversity in the learning community
● Teaches all members of the learning community to engage with and use information in a global society
● Evaluates, introduces, and models emerging technologies for the learning community, and uses technology to supplement school resources
● Participates as an active leader of the local and global learning community, building
relationships with organizations and stakeholders
● Collaborates with classroom educators to establish learning objectives and assessment strategies to develop individual and group inquiry-based learning experiences
● Connects with teachers individually and in Professional Learning Communities to
support each teacher’s growth from their own starting point and at their own pace
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collecting, organizing, and sharing resources of personal relevance
● Demonstrates competency, agility, and fluency with technology and software
applications
● Selection of innovation materials for a variety of student/staff interests, learning styles, reading levels, and interactive levels
● Selection and maintenance of media and equipment that will complement and supplement innovation and the district curriculum
● Development and administration of a building innovation and research budget in
collaboration with the Media Specialist
● Maintenance of an accurate and current inventory of innovation materials and equipment, and submission of reports in a timely manner
● Curating, classification and organization of innovative media and equipment according to accepted standards and ready accessibility
● Supervision of the processing of materials, equipment, resources, and safety regulations
● Arranging for the inspection, maintenance, replacement, and repair equipment under the realm of the responsibility assigned by the District
● Works closely with district technicians and Media Specialist to maintain an efficient support structure for students, staff, and parents
● Connects students and staff to the design thinking process (ideation, research, creation, and presentation) through all areas of the curriculum
● Coordinates with community members, university representatives, etc to provide
non-traditional educational experiences in the greater school community and promote innovation practices
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervises paraprofessionals who may comprise the school library staff, and if applicable,
volunteers and student assistants and supports through providing regularly scheduled meetings for collaboration Will work collaboratively with school media specialist
Carries out supervisory responsibilities of the accordance with the district's policies and negotiated agreements Responsibilities include training, planning, assigning and directing work and
addressing complaints and resolving problems
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or
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disabilities to perform the essential functions
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Valid certificate/license as issued by the Ohio Department of Education; Certificates, Licenses and/or registrations as applicable to position duties and responsibilities and/or as required by the Board of Education
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, colleagues and administration Ability
to read, analyze and interpret testing and survey results Ability to respond to common inquiries
or complaints from students, parents, agencies, teachers or members of the school community Ability to write articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format Ability to effectively present information to administration, staff, public groups, and/or Board of
Education
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program Ability to plan and implement lessons based on school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to whom assigned Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents and community Ability to speak clearly and concisely in written or oral
communication Ability to use computers for classroom instruction and record keeping Ability
to perform duties with awareness of district requirements and Board of Education policies
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job while working in a
fast-paced environment Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and frequently lift and/or move more than 50 pounds There is also possible exposure to blood and other bodily fluids
WORK ENVIRONMENT
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The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned
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