"Adjunct Instructor - LEAD 510"

Program:

Future School Leaders Academy

Position Vacancy:

Adjunct Instructor

Semester:

Spring 2026 (January 20, 2026 - May 5, 2026)

Course title:

Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction

Course number:

LEAD 510 Credits: 3 credits

Day / Time:

Thursdays, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Modality:

In person

The Future School Leaders Academy program prepares educators for school and district leadership roles in the Lower Hudson Valley region. Through a longstanding partnership with Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES, Bank Street College elicits candidates with demonstrated outstanding leadership potential who have been nominated by their Superintendents for the program. Candidates take courses on the BOCES campus in Yorktown Heights and do supervised fieldwork in their own schools and districts.

Course Description:

This course focuses on the roles and functions of the school leader in the spheres of curriculum and instruction. It covers the principles and processes that inform curriculum development and their impact on student learning. By explicitly addressing the relationship between curriculum and instruction to critical theory and pedagogy, students will connect positionality to their professional noticing. At the same time, students will unpack educational equity to become discerning consumers and negotiators of curriculum. In this course, students will envision and conceptualize ways to ensure that all students experience a liberating curriculum by focusing intensively on the knowledge and tools needed to recognize and dismantle dehumanizing spaces that are emblematic of historic and contemporary systems and structures. Finally, the course explores critical issues in leadership in curriculum and instruction and is designed to connect theory to practice as a means of inspiring, guiding, and effecting school change.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree required; Doctorate preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a school or district leader
• Successful previous experience with college / graduate school teaching preferred
• Experience with school reform practices and action research

Compensation:

$4,470