[YEP-DC] Vacancy Announcement! Chavez Schools: Principal, Parkside Middle School

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Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy

Position Description:  Principal, Middle School

 

As the school's most senior academic and school culture leader, the Principal is responsible for managing all policies and programming that ensure a learning environment consistent with the college preparatory and public policy-infused curricula missions of Chavez Schools.  The Principal collaborates and cooperates with key Home Office personnel, leveraging subject-matter expertise to ensure the effectiveness of school programming is maximized.

 

Key Accountability Areas

Scholar Achievement

• Executes research-based and data-driven programming to ensure substantive and consistent scholar growth and achievement
• Monitors the effectiveness of school programs and their impact on scholar learning
• Meets or exceeds quantitative goals for scholar achievement
• Meets or exceeds qualitative goals for scholar achievement
• Sources and utilizes a myriad of internal and external resources and strategies to positively impact scholar growth

School Culture

• Actively challenges the status quo, building on data analysis to define processes and protocols
• Inspires and leads new and challenging innovations
• Communicates and operate from strong ideals and beliefs about school and schooling
• Establishes strong lines of communication with teachers and among scholars
• Fosters shared beliefs and a sense of community and cooperation
• Sets and adheres to operating procedures and routines

Management

• Sources and provide teachers with material and professional development necessary to do their jobs effectively
• Recognizes and celebrate accomplishments and acknowledge failures
• Provides substantive feedback relative to improving teacher practice
• Inspires change and personal and professional improvement
• Exhibits flexibility, tailoring leadership voice and behavior to meet the needs of a given situation

Administrative/Compliance and Reporting

• Ensures deliverables are timely and accurate
• Utilizes resources designed to ensure timely deliverables
• Implements programming to ensure timely deliverables
• Ensures regulatory, Chavez and individual school requirements, policies and practices are consistently adhered to

Personal Leadership

• Establishes clear growth goals and maintain those as the unwaivering priority
• Identifies and deploys necessary human and other resources to ensure all programming is executed and managed effectively
• Protects faculty and staff from issues and influences that detract from their time or focus 
• Manages change, understanding the implications and adjusting leadership voice and behavior accrodingly
• Champions Chavez's direction even against personal vision
• Serves as exemplar of school culture

 Key Requisites

• Minimum of 2 years as an effective Vice Principal in an urban school community as evidenced by teacher and scholar growth and achievement data as well as personal performance data
• Minimum of 4 years' demonstrated success as an effective classroom teacher and/or teacher leader in an urban school community
• Substantive experience with data and intervention programming
• Substantive school leadership coursework
• Solid understanding of the developmental and social nuances of children in grades 6-8
• Master's degree in Education Administration or related coursework 

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Terri L. Smyth-Riding
Director, Human Resources
Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools
202.547.3975 ext. 19 (office)
410.733.2756 (mobile)

...you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back
- M. Angelou

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