Job Description
Job DescriptionDescription:
Vision of Academic Success for All
1. Deepens understanding of standards and engages faculty, students, parents, and community memb to understand the standards and the vision of academic success aligned to college- and career readiness.
2. Meets one-on-one, in teams, and as a whole faculty to reinforce high expectations for students and ? develop plans to achieve the visions and standards, review with evidence progress toward the goal: and identify exemplars of the vision in action and barriers to it.
3. Communicates non-negotiables related to teaching and learning in intellectually stimulating ways to promote the application of learning.
4. Challenges beliefs and practices that interfere with achieving the vision.
5. Demonstrates through daily decisions and actions that the school's priority is academic success for every student.
6. Serves as the cheerleader, coach, and standard bearer for the vision.
7. Functions collaboratively with the School Advisory Council to assess school needs, develop a meaningful School Improvement Plan, and introduce those changes in school programs and personnel assignments that will result in the achievement of school performance objectives and other District goals.
8. Monitors the implementation of effective instruction to meet the needs of all students.
9. Monitors the implementation of cultural competence, equity, and access within the instructional practices at the school center.
Climate
10. Supports professional learning and collaboration amongst teachers and resource staff and facilitates and leads professional learning focused on content, instruction, and pedagogical content knowledge.
11. Be present in classrooms and learning communities frequently to lend support to teachers and keep abreast of their professional learning and instructional needs.
12. Supports school-wide and team norms and expectations for collective responsibility for student success.
13. Develops staff's capacity to collaborate effectively with standards and effective instruction.
14. Celebrates success as well as opportunities for growth.
15. Assists with eliminating barriers and distractions that interfere with effective teaching and learning.
16. Ensures the provision of a clean, safe and nurturing school environment.
17. Supports the principal in building a culture of pride, trust, and respect.
18. Supports the principal in implementing and monitoring an effective approach to bullying prevention.
19. Assists the principal in aligning new and existing community and parent partnerships.
Cultivating Leadership
20. Focuses school leadership teams' work on implementation of standards and reformed instruction.
21. Advocates and supports teacher leaders to expand instructional leadership and job-embedded professional learning in the school.
22. Supports professional learning for teacher leaders to ensure they have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to fulfill their responsibilities as facilitators of learning among peers, have deep understanding of content and standards, instructional credibility, and professional respect and trust.
23. Carries out the principal's expectations for staff for engaging with teacher leaders in ongoing efforts to improve instruction and student learning.
24. Coordinates and narrows teacher leaders' work on learning-focused behaviors and tasks.
25. Provides ongoing coaching with constructive feedback to teacher leaders.
26. Assists the principal in implementing a comprehensive performance management system.
27. Assists the principal in implementing rigorous project management, structures, protocols, and processes.
Improving Instruction
28. Develops deep understanding of standards and requisite classroom curriculum and instruction to achieve the standards.
29. Communicates clear goals with individuals, teams, and the whole faculty for student achievement and effective instruction aligned with the vision for academic success aligned to the new standards.
30. Supports intellectually stimulating individual, team, and school-wide professional learning focused on meeting the vision for academic success aligned with standards as a routine part of teachers' workday.
31. Engages teachers in visiting one another's classrooms to promote transparency and shared expertise and to increase consistency in expectations and learning opportunities across classrooms, subjects, and grade levels.
32. Quickly and proactively addresses problems in instruction and student learning.
33. Visits classrooms to support and monitor instruction and provides frequent constructive feedback to individuals, teams, and whole faculty on progress toward those goals.
34. Monitors and improves instruction.
35. Monitors the implementation of instructional programming, digital, and blended learning customized to the individual strengths, needs, and aspirations of each learner.
People, Data, and Processes
36. Provides intensive mentoring to new staff members to bring them up-to-date with other staff to prevent gaps in student learning.
37. Taps the expertise of teachers who have solved persistent instructional problems and supports sharing of these practices and ongoing inquiry among staff.
38. Uses data to inform decisions and instruction, professional learning, performance, and student learning.
39. Analyzes the scope of change required within their school and classrooms to select and implement appropriate leadership practices to improve instruction and student learning.
40. Collaborates with peers, staff, and supervisors to clarify priorities for student and staff learning.
41. Supervises and provides input on evaluations for school-based personnel as part of a Board approved personnel assessment system, including providing input on staff development/training opportunities.
42. Supports the effective, efficient and accurate maintenance of appropriate records related to pupil attendance, FTE generation, instructional and non-instructional school-based personnel, and property inventories.
43. Assists the principal in supervising the school's food, transportation, maintenance, facility and support services.
44. Provides effective communication with and seeks input from parents, teachers, students and the community via systematic processes.
45. Coordinates community activities relevant to the school within the school area.
46. Keeps fully abreast of and diligently enforces appropriate federal, state, and local statutes; and complies with audit requirements, School Board policies and administrative directives.
47. Assist the principal in implementing and monitoring career and leadership advancement pathways.
48. Monitors systemic customer service.
Performance Effectiveness Criteria:
In addition to the employee being responsible for each of the performance responsibilities listed herein, annual progress will be assessed with respect to support and achievement of the District Strategic Plan and associated applicable scorecards.
Additional Job Functions:
1. Follows adopted policies and procedures in accordance with School Board priorities.
2. Conducts oneself in the best interest of students, in accordance with the highest traditions of public education and in support of the District's Mission Statement.
3. Performs other duties as assigned.
4. Capable of lifting/carrying 20 lbs. and occasionally up to 50 lb.: some physical activity required.
Requirements:
1. Master's degree with Educational Leadership or Administration and Supervision certification and additional certification coverages as required by law or rule of the State Board of Education.
2. Evidence of successful teaching experience.
3. Evidence of leadership ability, including motivating school personnel to achieve goals and objectives aligned to the District's Strategic Plan.
4. Demonstrated ability to develop the instructional skills of teachers and staff through observation, feedback, and coaching.
5. Demonstrated ability to lead data-driven continuous improvement of the school's program, climate and instruction.
6. Evidence of success creating and sustaining a safe and supportive school climate for all students through staff, parent, and community partnerships.
7. Evidence of excellent oral and written communication skills.