Washington School Elementary Assistant Principal

Duties

Purpose:

The assistant principal provides leadership and direction in supporting the goals and mission of East Maine School District 63.

Essential Functions

Living a Mission & Vision Focused on Results

• Coordinates efforts to create and implement a vision for the school and defines desired results that align with the overall school vision and lead to student improvement for all learners.

• Ensures that the school's identity, vision, mission, drive school decisions.

• Conducts difficult but crucial conversations with individuals, teams, and staff based on student performance data in a timely manner for the purpose of enhancing student learning and results.

Leading and Managing Systems Change

• Develops, implements, and monitors the outcomes of school improvement and school-wide student achievement data results to improve student achievement.

• Creates and maintains a safe, clean, and orderly learning environment.

• Collaborates with district and school staff to allocate personnel, time, material, and adult learning resources appropriately to achieve school improvement plan targets.

• Utilizes current technologies to support leadership and management functions.

Improving Teaching and Learning

• Works with and engages staff in the development and continuous refinement of a shared vision for effective teaching and learning by implementing a standards-based curriculum, relevant to student needs and interests, research-based effective practice, academic rigor, and high expectations for student performance in every classroom.

• Creates a continuous improvement cycle that uses multiple forms of data and student work samples to support individual, team, and school-wide improvement goals, identify and address areas of improvement and celebrate successes.

• Implements student interventions that differentiate instruction based on student needs.

• Selects and retains teachers with the expertise to deliver instruction that maximizes student learning.

• Evaluates the effectiveness of teaching and holds individual teachers accountable for meeting their goals by conducting frequent formal and informal observations in order to provide timely, written feedback on instruction, preparation, and classroom environment as part of the district teacher appraisal system.

• Ensures the training, development, and support for high-performing instructional teacher teams to support adult learning and development to advance student learning and performance.

• Supports the system for providing data-driven professional development and sharing of effective practice by thoughtfully providing and protecting staff time intentionally allocated for this purpose.

• Advances instructional technology within the learning environment.

Building and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships

• Creates, develops and sustains relationships that result in active student engagement in the learning process. Utilizes meaningful feedback of students, staff, families, and community in the evaluation of school programs and policies.

• Proactively engages families and communities in supporting their child's learning and the schools learning goals.

• Demonstrates an understanding of the change process and uses leadership and facilitation skills to manage it effectively.

Leading with Integrity and Professionalism

• Treats all people fairly, equitably, and with dignity and respect. Protects the rights and confidentiality of students and staff.

• Demonstrates personal and professional standards and conduct that enhance the image of the school and the educational profession. Protects the rights and confidentiality of students and staff.

• Create and supports a climate that values, accepts, and understands diversity in culture and point of view.

Creating and Sustaining a Culture of High Expectations

• Builds a culture of high aspirations and achievement for every student.

• Requires staff and students to demonstrate consistent values and positive behaviors aligned to the school's vision and mission.

• Leads a school culture and environment that successfully develops the full range of students' academic, creative, social-emotional, behavioral and physical learning capacities.

Administration of Building

• Appropriately represents the district in all settings and communicates effectively with all stakeholders, including central office personnel, community members, parents, staff, and students.

• Ensures the proper management of finances, equipment, materials, and resources of the building.

• Makes decisions for the students' best interests. o Actively engages in the recruitment and evaluation of school staff.

• Directly handles the management, supervision, discipline, and protection of students.

• Ensures that facilities are safe, well maintained, and student-centered.

• Meets deadlines, both at the state and local level, to effectively manage and lead.

• Assumes all other responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

East Maine School District 63 is seeking an outstanding educational leader to serve as an elementary school assistant principal for the 2024-25 school year.

Desired Qualifications/Skills/Attributes:

• Minimum of four years of successful elementary school classroom teaching preferred.

• Supervise special education and related services staff.

• Ensure special education and related services are provided as listed in student Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

• Serve as the Local Education Agency (LEA) representative.

• Exemplary communication, instructional leadership, planning, and organizational skills.

• Record of commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

• Documented history of success.

• Experience in the coaching and supervision of special education staff is preferred.

• Experience working with self-contained special education programming is preferred.

The position offers the opportunity for long-term growth and an enriching career in a district that is committed to supporting high achievement and celebrates our diverse community.

Salary/Benefits

$91,457-$102,476; and the position comes with an excellent package of benefits.

Additional Notes

Please note that this will be a rolling search, with applications reviewed as they are submitted.

How to Apply

https://www.emsd63.org/employment

Link to District/Third Party Online Application Web Page

https://www.emsd63.org/employment

Email Address

jchung@emsd63.org

School District

https://www.emsd63.org

Position Website

https://www.emsd63.org/employment

ILearn Link

ILearn

Report Card Link

District Report Card

Job Posting Date

3/11/2024

Application Deadline

3/26/2024

Start Date

7/1/2024