Elementary School Principal (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Title: Meadow Brook Elementary School Principal
Reports To: Superintendent
Job Summary: The role of the elementary school principal is to serve as the “leader of learning” who fosters a safe, caring, and supportive school learning community, ensures a rigorous curricula, and supports evidenced-based instructional practices and effective assessment strategies in a continuous cycle of improvement that result in high levels of learning for all students. Meadow Brook Elementary is a K-4 building that houses both traditional and Mandarin Immersion program classrooms.
Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications –
• Valid Michigan teaching certificate with elementary endorsement or coursework
• Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership, Instruction, or related field
• Minimum of 5 years elementary classroom teaching experience
Preferred qualifications –
• Valid Michigan administrative certificate
• Successful experience as a principal, assistant principal, or teacher leader
• Experience and knowledge in two-way immersion pedagogy and curricula
• Demonstrated results with raising student achievement for all students including multilingual learners and language immersion students
• Experience using a State approved teacher evaluation framework
Key Responsibilities:
• Support implementation of best English-only and language immersion teaching practices in support of student achievement; observe classrooms regularly and provide feedback to teachers
• Ensure a clear focus on individualized student learning that is guided by relevant and timely data
• Create a safe learning environment that promotes equity and high learning expectations for all
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement of instruction
• Optimize learning for all students by ensuring a guaranteed and viable curriculum
• Support the leadership of the School Success Team and school improvement process
• Engage in and sustain regional, state, national and international partnerships support Mandarin Immersion Program
• Establish a culture of high expectations for academics, language proficiency, and behavior
Skills/Knowledge:
• Student and school performance data
• Effective practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment for all student populations
• Curriculum alignment strategies to ensure focus and coherence within and across grade levels
• Principles and practices of administrative management, including strategic planning, budgeting, and contract management
• Legal, ethical, and professional best practices
• Building relationships and communicating effectively, verbally and in writing, with many different stakeholders (e.g., students, families, staff members, and the broader community)
• Fostering and maintaining equitable and inclusive learning and working environments for students, families, and employees
• Experience allocating/managing Title I funding to support student learning
Dispositions:
• High expectations for self and others and a belief that all students can learn at high levels
• Commitment to continuous improvement, using relevant data, and providing/receiving actionable feedback
• Resilience in the face of challenges and an orientation toward solutions
• Confidence to lead with humility, authenticity, transparency, and personal responsibility
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities may occur inside and outside.
• The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.
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