The ALC Program Administrator provides leadership, coordination, and daily oversight for an Area Learning Center designed around a “studio” learning model. In Studios, students engage in personalized, interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences that connect academic standards to real-world problems, student interests, and community partnerships. This position is responsible for coordinating the instructional design, student support systems, staff collaboration, program operations, and community partnerships necessary to create a personalized, interdisciplinary, project-based, competency-oriented learning environment for students whose needs are best met through an alternative educational setting. This is not a traditional alternative program model. The ALC Program Administrator leads the development and implementation of a studio-based learning culture in which students engage in authentic projects, exhibitions and learning, personalized pathways, advisory structures, work-based learning and/or community-connected experiences, reflective goal-setting, and meaningful demonstrations of academic growth.
The ALC Program Administrator ensures that the program maintains strong systems for student intake, Continual Learning Plans, attendance, credit progress, discipline, state reporting and compliance, assessment coordination, staff collaboration, family communication, hiring, observations, staff supervision and partnerships with referring schools and community agencies.