High School Principal

Description

Eastpointe High School is hiring a Principal with outstanding leadership, management, assessment, and listening skills. The Principal is an integral role that serves as the chief administrator to the assigned campus and program.

To ensure success, the Principal must be proficient in implementing policies, programs, curriculum, activities, and budgets in a manner that promotes the educational development of each student and the professional development for each staff member. The principal is the educational leader responsible for growth, development, implementation, supervision, and evaluation of a comprehensive program of educational and student services. This individual will be expected to administer the program in accordance with board policies, and statutory requirements. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Create a culture that promotes the ongoing improvement of learning and teaching for students and staff: 

Develops and sustains focus on a shared mission and clear vision for improvement of learning and teaching. Engages stakeholders in the essential conversations for ongoing improvement. Facilitates collaborative processes with stakeholders leading toward continuous improvement. Creates opportunities for shared leadership within the school. 

Provide for school safety: 

Effectively engages the entire community to develop a more nuanced/expanded understanding of what it means to be safe. Provides for the physical, intellectual, and emotional safety in order for effective teaching and learning to take place. 

Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of a data-driven plan for increasing student achievement, including the use of multiple student data elements: 

Recognizes and seeks out multiple data sources. Analyzes and interprets multiple data sources to inform school-level improvement efforts. Implements data driven plan for improved teaching and learning. 

Assist instructional staff with alignment of curriculum, instruction and assessment with state and district learning goals: Provides leadership that ensures fidelity to the prescribed curricula that is in alignment to state and district learning goals. Ensures alignment and implementation of best instructional practices to state and district learning goals. Ensures assessment practices are aligned with both curriculum and instruction. 

Monitor, assist, and evaluate effective instruction and assessment practices: 

Prioritize effective teaching by visiting classrooms regularly and working with teachers on instructional issues. Develops a working knowledge and ability to lead district initiatives. Participates in professional development regarding district initiatives. Monitors instruction and assessment practices ensuring alignment with the School Improvement Plan. Assists staff in developing required student growth plan and identifying valid, reliable sources of evidence to effectiveness. Assists staff in implementing effective instruction and assessment practices. Reliably and validly evaluates staff in effective instruction and assessment practices. 

Manage both staff and fiscal resources to support student achievement and legal responsibilities: 

Manages human and fiscal resources in transparent ways such that the capacity of the school community to make complicated decisions grows. The management of, hiring, assignments, evaluations, ongoing professional development and the fulfillment of legal responsibilities is required. Decisions are made about resources that result in improved teaching and learning. 

Partner with the school community to promote student learning: 

Understands the greater community and works to establish a genuine partnership model between home and school. Aligns school and community efforts and values as a work in progress that must be nurtured, sustained, and monitored, and is able to influence others to adopt the same understanding. Community engagement decisions are made that result in improved teaching and learning gaps. 

Demonstrate commitment to closing the achievement gap: 

Uses evidence to support student improvement. Identifies barriers to achievement and knows how to close resulting gaps. Demonstrates a commitment to close the achievement gap. Provides evidence of growth in student learning.

Leadership and Governance: 

· Consistently demonstrates high moral, ethical, and professional standards of performance and personal integrity, which includes addressing problems and issues in an open, honest, and timely manner. Ensures proper conduct which goes beyond the practice of avoiding what is wrong and instead focusing on choosing to do what is right. Serves as a champion for the school, avoiding actual or perceived behavior personally or among the staff which may cast a negative impression on the school, the District, or the Board. 

· Models and promotes trust, enthusiasm, rapport, respect and openness among faculty, staff, students, and members of the community. Celebrates successes and recognizes the achievements of others. 

· Creates a professional environment by assuring that personal and staff interactions with others in the school, community, and board are conducted with utmost respect and professionalism. 

· Honors the ideas of others even when in disagreement with those ideas. Works collaboratively to resolve disagreements and seek mutually respectful solutions. 

· Actively participates in meetings, workshops and conferences that involve decisions affecting the district and/or the school. Advocates for the school needs by providing input to the decision-making process of the district. Respects, supports, and implements decisions once made, and acts to ensure that staff are equally supportive. 

· Participates in school academic, athletic, and co-curricular activities to supervise and advocate for the school. 

Minimum Qualifications

· Valid Arizona State Principal Certificate (preferred).

· Five (5) successful years of teaching experience. 

· Prior experience as school administrator (Alternative education environment preferred).

· Knowledge of and proven strategies to grow school enrollment.

· Ability to create a safe, orderly, positive school climate for students and staff.

· Ability to foster growth, creativity, and flexibility using a variety of techniques.

· Ability to facilitate resolution of complex interpersonal issues. 

· Demonstrate successful experience in shared decision making, program development, staff supervision and evaluation. 

· Knowledge and skill in fiscal management, staff development, and human relations. 

· Ability to evaluate teachers. 

· Knowledge and demonstrative skills in the use of technology for teaching and learning. 

· Managerial skill in planning, organizing, delegating, and listening. 

· Ability to gain and demonstrate knowledge of District policy and State laws that govern budget procedures and expenditures. 

· Knowledge about laws, rules and regulations governing the operation of charter schools. 

· Knowledge of innovations in education; alternative instructional strategies, alternative assessment methods; blended instructional support; in-class support for special needs students, instruction based on student performance and decision making, peer tutoring, cooperative learning. 

Ability to react in emergency situations.