Assistant Principal - North Smithfield High School
Full Time
North Smithfield, RI 02896
Posted
Job description
NORTH SMITHFIELD SCHOOL DEPARTMENTJOB DESCRIPTIONPOSITION TITLE:HIGH SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL [Gr. 9 12]Reports to: Principal
Approved: Superintendent of Schools
Reviewed/Revised: May 2015
POSITION SUMMARY: To provide leadership within his/her school building(s) and the district that:
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Advocates for knowledge and learning;
- Recognizes and believes that student learning is the primary purpose of schools and district;
- Understands the importance of ensuring that students have a safe and orderly learning environment in which they are emotionally able to learn;
- Ensures a dynamic environment in order to improve students learning opportunities; ensures that staff is continually engaged in professional development focused on improved student learning;
- Is dedicated to continuous improvement based upon data that provides an accurate picture of the current effectiveness of the school. Contrast these data with the district/school mission and their vision for improvement and place school improvement at the forefront of their efforts knowing that the needs of students must always come before personal interests;
- Develops and maintains the best possible educational programs and services, under the supervision of the Superintendent; and,
- Carries out all regulations of the Superintendent affecting the educational program, including course of study and non-curricular activities.
- Work directly under the supervision of the Principal.
- Assume full responsibility of the Principal in his/her absence.
- Oversee and assume responsibility cooperatively for the supervision and discipline of High School students in accordance with the policies of the school, School District, and School Committee.
- Assume responsibility for all parent/student appeals and necessary communications regarding discipline and other school related matters.
- Supervise and follow up on student attendance. Communicate with teachers, students, and parents concerning attendance and other school-related discipline matters.
- Coordinate, maintain, and monitor detention program, and maintain all appropriate records and documentation.
- Communicate with teachers, students, and parents concerning all school-related matters.
- Responsible for the supervision of buses, lunch periods, student records and all extra-curricular activities under the direction of the Principal.
- Assist in the development and implementation of the High School master schedule.
- Assist in the development and implementation of curriculum, instruction and assessment.
- Assume responsibility for the administration, supervision and evaluation of all High School teachers and staff members, under the direction of the Principal.
- Responsible for the coordination of the incoming student orientation program under the direction of the Principal.
- Coordinate all issues related to staff coverage throughout the High school as needed.
- Assist the Principal in the development and management of the school budget.
- Attend and be an active participant in all meetings related to the educational planning for students in grades 9-12, specifically Team of Qualified Personnel (TQP), Individualized Education Plans (IEP), as needed and coordinate, develop, and implement all 504 plans.
- Participate and be an active member of the School Improvement Team (SIT) and various sub-committee meetings.
- Coordinate the recruitment and hiring of all staff members.
- Coordinate the annual review and modification of the Student/Parent Handbook.
- Assist in the development and coordination of all short-and long-term technology plans throughout the High School in conjunction with the Principal, Middle School Assistant Principal, Technology Director, and Technology staff.
- Assume all other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Principal.
- Each student learning
- High expectations for students, staff, and community members
- Continuous evidence?based improvement
- Collaboration with all stakeholders
- Reflection and examination of assumptions and beliefs
- Learning as the fundamental purpose of school
- Affirming diversity
- Creating a safe and supportive learning environment
- Service to student learning and others
- Operating efficiently and effectively
- Equity
- The mission, vision, and goals over personal interests
- Assuming personal responsibility for actions
- Continuous professional development and growth
- Influencing policies
- Advocating for education and for students
- Upholding laws and regulations and modeling ethical conduct
- Use multiple sources of information and analyze data about current practices and outcomes to shape a mission, vision, and goals with high, measurable results for all students and educators.
- Align the mission, vision, and goals to school, district, state, and federal policies and the purposes of education in a democratic society.
- Recruit, support, and retain those who have the capacity to grow the organization in the direction of the mission, vision, and goals.
- Challenge the school community to ensure the alignment of programs and practices to the established mission, vision, and goals.
- Establish, implement, evaluate, and revise processes for building the capacity of staff, students, families, and community members to develop, implement, and communicate the mission, vision, and goals.
- Engage multiple stakeholders with diverse perspectives in constructing shared understandings and commitments to high expectations for all students.
- Develop shared commitments and responsibilities among staff and the community for selecting and implementing effective improvement strategies, and assessing and monitoring progress toward the mission, vision, and goals.
- Celebrate and recognize progress in order to sustain a commitment to the mission, vision, and goals.
- Create or utilize a data system that uses multiple sources of data to identify unique strengths and needs of students, gaps between desired performance and actual student performance, and areas for improvement.
- Use data-driven decision making, research, and best practices to monitor and revise plans, programs, and activities to achieve the mission, vision, and goals.
- Use effective change strategies that engage staff and community stakeholders in planning and implementing programs and activities.
- Identify and address barriers to achieving the mission, vision, and goals.
- Incorporate the mission, vision, and goals into planning and decision making processes.
- Align all resources to achieve the mission, vision, and goals.
- Revise plans, programs, and activities as indicated and warranted by systemically monitoring evidence about the effectiveness of programs.
- Develop a shared understanding and commitment to high standards for each student consistent with local, state, and federal expectations.
- Model openness to change and support initiatives that improve student learning.
- Develop a culture that promotes shared responsibility to continuously examine beliefs, values, and practices in relation to the mission, vision, and goals.
- Use data for program evaluation that improves learning and teaching.
- Guide and support job-embedded, standards-based professional development that responds to diverse learning needs of educators/staff to support each students achievement.
- Promote an understanding of Rhode Island and national curriculum standards throughout the school community.
- Support the development, implementation, and evaluation of a standards-based curriculum.
- Improve the capacity of the school community to differentiate instruction, analyze student work, monitor student progress, and redesign curricular and instructional programs based on student achievement results.
- Provide coherent alignment among curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development and evaluation to ensure the effectiveness of instruction.
- Monitor the effects of differentiated teaching strategies, curricular materials, and education technologies to address the diverse needs of each student.
- Collaborate with educators/staff to identify and implement research-based strategies and practices to ensure equity and close gaps in student opportunity and achievement.
- Ensure that systematic support and research-based interventions are provided for students who are not meeting the standards.
- Develop and use aligned standards-based accountability systems to set school improvement goals and improve the quality of learning and teaching.
- Use a variety of formative and summative assessments to inform, evaluate, and modify student learning, instruction, program quality, and supports.
- Guide the school community in the regular analyses of data about all students and subgroups to improve learning and teaching.
- Use appropriate psychometric and evaluation strategies to interpret data and communicate progress toward the mission, vision, and goals to the school community and other stakeholders.
- Create and participate in systems that collaboratively support student and staff learning and well-being.
- Involve the school community in developing, implementing, and monitoring guidelines and norms for accountable behavior.
- Develop, monitor, and update a comprehensive safety and security plan.
- Align resources (time, people, and space, money) to district/school mission, vision, and plan.
- Implement practices to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel.
- Assign personnel and monitor placements to ensure diverse student needs, legal requirements, and equity goals are met.
- Supervise personnel and conduct standards-based evaluations in accordance with district requirements and state policies in order to enhance professional practice.
- Operate within budget and fiscal guidelines to measurably improve student achievement.
- Allocate funds based on student needs within the framework of policy and regulations.
- Advocate to and secure resources needed to accomplish the vision.
- Use problem-solving skills and knowledge of strategic, long-range, and operational planning to continuously improve the operational system.
- Maintain the physical plant for safety, ADA requirements, access issues, and for direct support of student learning.
- Develop and facilitate communication and data systems that ensure the timely flow of information.
- Oversee the acquisition and maintenance of equipment and technology.
- Use data systems to evaluate and revise processes to continuously improve the operational system.
- Understand and apply strategies for developing family and local community partnerships.
- Bring together the resources of schools, parents, guardians, family members, and community to positively affect student and adult learning.
- Involve families in decision making about their childrens education.
- Develop a comprehensive strategy for positive community and media relations.
- Use effective public information strategies and technologies to communicate with families and community members about the mission, vision, and priorities of the district and school community.
- Participate in the community to better understand values, interests, and needs.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders, including individuals and groups with competing perspectives.
- Use appropriate assessment strategies and research methods to understand community conditions and dynamics and to accommodate diverse student needs.
- Seek out and collaborate with community programs serving students with diverse learning needs.
- Recognize and celebrate diversity as an asset to the educational programs of the school community.
- Engage communities in a culturally-competent manner to share responsibilities that improve education and achievement of all students.
- Understand the network of available community resources and collaborate with agencies to provide health, social, and other services to families and children.
- Develop mutually-beneficial relationships with business, religious, political, educational, and service organizations to share both school and community resources.
- Use public resources and funds appropriately and effectively.
- Secure community support for seeking and sustaining the resources necessary to address student needs.
- Model personal and professional ethics, integrity, justice, and fairness and expect the same of others.
- Protect the rights and appropriate confidentiality of students, families, and staff.
- Behave in a trustworthy manner, using their influence to serve the best interests of each student, to enhance education, and promote the common good.
- Demonstrate respect for the inherent dignity and worth of each individual.
- Model respect for diverse community stakeholders and treat them equitably.
- Demonstrate respect for diversity by developing cultural competency skills and equitable practices.
- Self-assess personal assumptions, values, beliefs, and practices that guide the improvement of student learning.
- Lead others in safely examining and challenging deeply held assumptions and beliefs that may conflict with the mission, vision, and goals.
- Reflect upon their work based on professional standards, analyze strengths and weaknesses, establish goals, action plans, benchmarks, and engage in activities for professional growth.
- Model the continual deepening of understanding and practice related to content, standards, assessment, data, teacher support, evaluation, and professional development strategies in order to lead others in those same practices.
- Develop and use understanding of educational policies and accountability expectations to ensure that short and long term goals are met, including those within school and district strategic plans.
- Assist educators and the community to understand and focus on mission, vision, and goals for students within the context of political and financial constraints and influences.
- Sustain personal motivation, optimism, commitment, energy and health by balancing personal and professional responsibilities and encouraging similar actions for others.
- Make decisions based on sound principles, research, data, and policy.
- Respect and support the systems of authority at the state, district, and school levels through ethical and professional behavior.
- Facilitate constructive discussions with the public about federal, state, and local laws, policies, regulations, and statutory requirements affecting continuous improvement of educational programs and outcomes.
- Develop appropriate relationships with a range of stakeholders and policymakers to identify, respond to, and influence issues, trends, and potential changes that affect the context and conduct of education.
- Advocate for equity and adequacy in providing for students and families educational, physical, emotional, social, cultural, legal, and economic needs to meet educational expectations and policy requirements.
- Uphold federal, state, and local laws, policies, regulations, and statutory requirements on a consistent basis.
- Collect and accurately communicate data about educational performance in a clear and timely manner, relating specifics about the local context to improve policies, and inform political dialogue.
- Communicate effectively with key decision-makers in the community and in broader political contexts to improve public understanding of federal, state, and local laws, policies, regulations, and statutory requirements.
- Advocate for increased support for excellence and equity in education.
- Build strong and appropriate relationships with the school board, district and state education leaders, and other policy makers to inform and influence policies in the service of children and families.
- Support public policies that provide for needs of children and families and ensure equity and excellence in education.
- Advocate for public policies that ensure appropriate and equitable human and fiscal resources that improve student learning and eliminate achievement gaps.
- Work with community leaders to collect and analyze data on economic, social, and other issues that impact district and school planning, programs, and structures.
- R. I. Certification as a Building Level Administrator PK-12
- Masters Degree preferred
- Minimum of three (3) years of successful teaching experience in the secondary/middle/elementary grades (as appropriate)
- Professional endorsement of exemplary leadership behaviors and verification of the demonstrated ability to serve as a positive role model for students and staff.
- Demonstrates effective command of written and oral language in dealing with staff, School Committee members, and the public.
- Speaks well in front of large and small groups. Expresses ideas in a logical and forthright manner.
- A satisfactory attendance and work record.
- Directing Others adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning on an activity.
- Influencing People Adaptability to influencing people about the opinions, attitudes, or judgments about ideas or things.
- Making Judgments Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.
- Performing a Variety of Duties Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
- People Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instruction.
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