Director of Curriculum & Instruction: Science

The Director of Curriculum and Instruction: Science is Summit K12’s senior domain leader for K-12 science teaching and learning. The Director owns the research-based principles, science domain architecture, quality standards, and design expectations that guide science curriculum, assessment, digital learning experiences, and professional learning across Summit K12.

This role protects scientific accuracy, disciplinary integrity, and coherence across grade bands, courses, science domains, state frameworks, and solutions. The Director translates standards, research, assessment expectations, policy, and implementation evidence into practical design guidance that Principal Curriculum Designers, Learning Experience Designers, writers, assessment teams, Product, and external production partners can apply consistently.

The Director of Curriculum and Instruction directly manages and develops assigned Principal Curriculum Designers and other team members, with accountability for performance, priorities, capacity, professional growth, and the development of deep expertise within the domain.

The Director owns science domain architecture and academic quality but does not own day-to-day production of individual products. Principal Curriculum Designers translate the domain architecture into detailed solution-level designs, specifications, and buildable models. The Director’s value is in defining what excellent science learning looks like, ensuring those expectations travel across the portfolio, validating high-impact design decisions, and building organizational expertise so science quality can scale without depending on a single expert.