Job Description
Adjunct Professor
Loyola Marymount University's School of Education: Institute of School Leadership and Administration
LMU's Institute of School Leadership & Administration (ISLA) prepares you to serve as an ethical, respectful, and transformative educational administrator and leader.
We strive to unite theory and practice in a reciprocal relationship that mutually inform each other. We are a community of reflective practitioners, guided by critical inquiry and social responsibility. We actively engage in educational research, including faculty/student collaboration. We affirm the use of technology in education as authentic, meaningful, and accessible to all learners.
We believe in the value of working collaboratively with the districts, schools, parents, and students of the communities we serve, to successfully educate all learners. We recognize, support and promote the gifts and talents of community members and encourage their participation in decision-making processes.
Diversity in Leadership Institute
DLI is dedicated to increasing racial diversity, equity, inclusion and cultural competence among charter school and district administrators as a lever to increase academic and social outcomes for TK-12 students in California.
While diversity can mean many things including socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, cultural and more, for our purposes, we focus on race, specifically African American and Latinx. In the context of school success, we contextualize this focus on racial diversity in the areas of equity: “the outcome of practices that result in the same outcomes for members of a group. Equitable programs may make accommodations for differences so that the outcomes are the same for all individuals,” and inclusion: “when diverse groups are represented and included in all sectors of the organization and organizational life.” Through the lens of racial diversity, equity and inclusion (RDEI), DLI seeks to ask questions, create dialogue, collaborate, assess, problem-solve, and create solutions to effect change across California, so more children see school leaders and teachers who look like them, provide quality learning experiences and successful outcomes in their public schools.
DLI/LMU Aspiring Principal of Color Fellowship Program Description
In partnership with Loyola Marymount University’s Institute of School Leadership and Administration (ISLA) program, DLI developed a statewide fellowship program for African American and Latinx rising administrators pursuing their preliminary administrative credentials. Launched in the Fall of 2021, the fellowship provides a 16 month (14 month course of study) state-wide cohort experience informed by a focus on Culturally Responsive School Leadership (CRSL), racial diversity, equity and inclusion, aligned with California administrative credentialing requirements, that dives deeply into: the role a leader’s own cultural identity plays in their leadership (self-awareness), and how systemic and structural racism and white supremacy (power and privilege) has impacted them and their perspective as educators, educational leaders, and the students and families they serve.
Position
Adjunct Professor/Part-Time Faculty. This is not a remote position.
*While LMU is based in Los Angeles, there is one fellowship location in the San Francisco/Bay Area and another in Los Angeles and we require adjuncts to live in or in close proximity to either of these areas.
Starting Date
On-going. Positions will be filled as needed for each academic semester.
Minimum Qualifications
Candidates must have a Master’s degree in a related field with teaching experience or K-12 educational leadership experience (school leader, central office staff, etc.). Administrative Credential preferred.
Applicants should be culturally responsive and have the ability to relate well to others within the academic environment. The successful candidate will be committed to the academic success of all of our students and to an environment that acknowledges, encourages, and celebrates diversity and difference. To this end, the successful candidate will work effectively, respectfully, and collaboratively in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings.
Preferred Qualifications
Appropriate doctoral or terminal degree.
Duties
Under the direction of DLI/LMU, Adjunct Professor will teach courses in the area of expertise within the prescribed curriculum, and be available for office hours.
Role and Responsibilities
Adjunct Professor will be a part-time teaching-only faculty of LMU. They will work collaboratively with both the director of the ISLA program and the VP of Leadership Development at DLI. Adjunct Lecturers will align their syllabi to the goals and core competencies of the DLI Aspiring Principals of Color Fellowship. Equity is interwoven with the five core tenets of our framework. The Core Competencies can be found here:
Builds with Others
Navigates Towards a New Future
Excels in Instruction
Leads from Within
Builds Capacity
The primary responsibility of part-time faculty is to deliver instruction in the manner determined by DLI/LMU and aligned with DLI’s core competencies.
Preparation of syllabus and teaching of curriculum according to the goals and objectives of the program as well as DLI’s Core Competencies
Participation in departmental activities as identified by ISLA’s director or program director
Deliver learning-centered instruction
Conduct assessments of students and program learning outcomes
Determine student mastery of material and assessing final course grades from evaluation of student work and activities related to course material
Make themselves available to students outside of class (i.e., office hours) as stipulated in the LMU Faculty Handbook
Mentor students in their academic and professional careers
Salary
Initial salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applications/Required Documentation
Please submit a cover letter, current curriculum vitae.
Should you proceed further in the application process, LMU will require official transcripts, three letters of recommendation and the University’s Application for Academic Employment.
Skills
LEARNING, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL, STRATEGIC PLANNING, COMMUNICATION