Virtual Transformation Specialist
About the Team
The Virtual Preparatory Academy of Florida is a K–12 tuition-free online public school serving students statewide. At VPA Florida, we provide a safe and nurturing environment where every student has the opportunity to be understood and inspired through a customized learning path that includes live interactive sessions and personalized teacher support.
The School Transformation Specialist serves as a strategic partner to school leadership in driving measurable and sustainable improvement in student achievement, instructional quality, student engagement, and organizational effectiveness. The Specialist works closely with the Principals and school leadership team to implement, monitor, and evaluate the school's transformation and improvement priorities. This position requires a demonstrated record of success in school turnaround, educational leadership, data-driven improvement, and organizational change. The ideal candidate understands the complexities of Florida public education and can translate school improvement plans into clear actions, measurable outcomes, and systems of accountability.
Please note – while this is an online school position and all instruction occurs virtually, travel and face to face attendance will be required several times per year to support in person state testing and student events.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to residents of Florida.
About the Opportunity
School Transformation & Strategic Improvement
- Partner with the Principals and school leadership team to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate the school's comprehensive improvement and transformation priorities.
- Translate strategic goals into clearly defined action steps, measurable outcomes, timelines, lead measures, and accountability structures.
- Monitor implementation of the school's improvement plan and identify barriers that may prevent successful execution.
- Establish systems for frequent progress monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Conduct regular reviews of school performance and provide the Principals with actionable feedback and recommendations.
- Support the leadership team in identifying root causes of performance gaps and developing evidence-based strategies to address them.
- Ensure that people, time, resources, professional learning, and organizational systems are aligned to the school's highest-priority improvement goals.
- Support the development and monitoring of corrective action plans when progress toward goals is insufficient.
- Evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of school improvement initiatives.
Florida Assessment, Accountability & Data
- Monitor school performance using multiple measures of student achievement, growth, engagement, and school effectiveness.
- Analyze and disaggregate FAST, EOC, graduation, course completion, attendance, and other applicable Florida assessment and accountability data.
- Support leaders in translating assessment data into instructional priorities and targeted interventions.
- Monitor progress toward schoolwide achievement and growth goals.
- Develop clear data narratives that communicate progress, challenges, trends, root causes, and recommended next steps.
- Facilitate recurring data-monitoring cycles with school leadership and instructional teams.
- Support preparation for Florida state assessments and ensure that assessment data is incorporated into ongoing improvement efforts.
- Monitor leading indicators throughout the year rather than relying solely on end-of-year outcomes.
- Develop dashboards, scorecards, progress-monitoring tools, and other systems that allow leaders to quickly identify areas of success and concern.
Program Evaluation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of academic, instructional, intervention, student-support, and professional-learning programs.
- Develop measures of implementation and impact for major school initiatives.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data