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Posted: 24-Jan-23
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Type: Full Time
Salary: Based on experience
Preferred Education:
QUEST Center Coordinator
The Episcopal School of Baton Rouge seeks an innovative QUEST Center Coordinator for the 2023-2024 academic year. This individual is integral to the Lower School and Middle School and will oversee Episcopal’s QUEST Center, which is an innovative learning space designed for cross-disciplinary project work done by Lower School and Middle School students. This center includes a virtual learning lab, design studios, an investigation station, a digital media lab, a production studio, a teaching kitchen, and display spaces. The responsibilities of this position include training teachers in technical skills and project-based pedagogy: collaborating with teachers to develop, facilitate, and team-teach project-based curricula; maintaining the schedule, supplies, equipment, and budget for the QUEST Center; and promoting the QUEST Center in the larger community. Therefore, an ideal candidate would have a combination of the following: innovative project-based teaching, strong technology skills, experience with gifted education, and excellent organizational and time-management skills. This position is a ten-month full-time position with an annual renewal. The position begins on August 1st of each year.
Description of School
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, a college preparatory educational community of approximately 950 students and approximately 170 professionals, includes grades PreK-3 through 12 that embraces the whole-child educational philosophy. As an Episcopal school, the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge was created to be a diverse institution of educational and human development for all persons, regardless of origin, background, ability, or religion. We are created to “strive for justice and peace among all people and [to] respect the dignity of every human being.” Episcopal is known for its academic performance, for its attention to the spiritual lives of its students, and for offering a wide range of opportunities for student education and development. Opportunities to excel in academics, arts, athletics, service, and community leadership characterize the school’s program.
General Duties
- Coordinate facility usage and scheduling for the QUEST Center.
- Maintain supplies, equipment, and budget for the QUEST Center.
- Provide professional development for teachers on technology, equipment, and project-based work to ensure that the QUEST Center is fully utilized.
- Collaborate with Lower School and Middle School teachers to develop and implement projects using the QUEST Center facilities.
- Develop programming beyond the school day with community partners, including local day schools.
- Promote the QUEST Center both within the school community and in the broader community.
- Promote Episcopal in the community by participating in events and competitions.
- Attend scheduled faculty/division/department meetings.
- Participate in professional development.
- Perform additional faculty duties assigned including but not limited to supervising students during carpool, lunch, advisory, recess, and so forth.
Our School Mission
As a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, Episcopal School of Baton Rouge nurtures and develops the whole child -- spiritually, intellectually, morally, physically, and artistically -- through challenging academic and co-curricular programs which prepare our graduates for college and for purposeful lives.
Our Episcopal Identity
Episcopal schools are Christian communities whose missions integrate spiritual formation into all aspects of the educational experience in a graceful and inclusive way. Even the most diverse of Episcopal schools are created to be communities that honor, celebrate and worship God as the center of life. We are created to be models of God’s love and grace. We are created to serve God in Christ in all persons, regardless of origin, background, ability, or religion. We are created to “strive for justice and peace among all people and [to] respect the dignity of every human being.”
Episcopal schools have been established, however, not solely as communities for Christians, like a parish church, but as diverse institutions of educational and human development for people of all faiths and backgrounds. Episcopal schools are populated by a rich variety of human beings, from increasingly diverse religious, cultural, and economic backgrounds. By weaving the principles of meaningful school worship, rich community life, foundational religious education, and striving for social justice into the very fabric of the school’s overall life, Episcopal schools ensure that we challenge all who attend our schools to build lives of genuine meaning, purpose, and service in the world they will inherit.
Submission Information
Episcopal will offer a competitive salary and good benefits for this position. Digital applications are preferred and welcomed at https://www.episcopalbr.org/discover-episcopal/careers or can be emailed to forets@ehsbr.org. Please include an employment application, cover letter, resume, and copy of transcripts. Application materials can also be sent to Attn: Employment, Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, 3200 Woodland Ridge Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70816.
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment upon any basis, including race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or military service.
Personal and Professional Characteristics and Experiences
- A Bachelor’s Degree is required. Experience in gifted education is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience leading project-based learning for middle school and/or lower school students.
- Experienced teacher trainer and team teacher with excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with teachers of varying grade levels.
- Significant experience with technology and tools used in engineering and scientific investigations, educational applications, digital media, and/or a willingness to develop new skills in these areas.
- Experience with a variety of robotics equipment and willingness to coach robotics teams.
- Innovative thinker who is able to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- A lifelong learner - staying current with instructional technology, pedagogy, and curriculum.
- Classroom management skills that promote a positive classroom environment
- Appreciation for and understanding of Lower School and Middle School-aged children.
- Communicates clearly and with appropriate empathy to students, parents, and colleagues
- Ability to react and adjust quickly to changing conditions and to come up with practical ideas for addressing them
- Demonstrates strong cultural competency skills and an enthusiasm for celebrating diversity, inclusivity, and belonging
- Demonstrates sensitivity, knowledge, and understanding of the diverse backgrounds of community members with a continuous focus on healthy relationship building
- Embraces the whole-child educational philosophy and seeks to help students develop in all aspects.
