Position Type:
Administration/Assistant Principal

Date Posted:
6/15/2021

Location:
District Wide

Closing Date:
Until Filled

Administrative
Memoranda

Published from the Office of the CEO & Superintendent, East Cleveland City School

Volume 2021 No. 002_________________________________________ Posted June 15, 2021

Report to: Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent

Contract Year: 225 Days

PURPOSE: The Revitalization Principal provides transformational leadership to planning, launching and managing a turnaround school. This includes implementing an improvement model which focuses on high student achievement; building a positive school climate that supports the whole student; leveraging research and data to drive initiatives and instruction, and building a high-performing staff and leadership team to achieve the school's vision and goals. The Revitalization Principal will collaborate with students, parents, community members, as well as other internal/external resources and stakeholders to implement new educational programs, capital improvements, systems, tools and other resources to accelerate student achievement and college and career readiness.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Possession of a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership or related field
• Proven success leading and turning around chronically low-achieving schools
• Minimum of three years administrative experience in education
• Possess the necessary License/Certification required for a Elementary School Principal by the State of Ohio.

Other Requirements:

• Able to adapt to the complexities of the urban school environment
• Strong belief that all students can learn at high levels and thrive when given the chance and a demonstrated commitment to social justice
• Develops and implements building-wide training to promote cultural understanding and competency and a climate of equity and inclusion.
• Creative thinking and fostering innovation for both staff and students
• Analytical thinking to problem-solve and build systems for success
• Familiar with evidence-based practices on the school level that create and sustain change
• Able to build capacity in others
• Demonstrating leadership theories and practices
• Knowledge of current education policy trends
• Proven experience leading urban schools to accelerate student academic and learning performance
• Extensive knowledge of comprehensive assessment systems
• Success with professional development design and delivery to help teachers raise test scores using data
• Proven experience in conducting rigorous evaluations of educators and school staff performance
• Gathers, researches and analyzes data for use in statistical calculations and reporting in order to meet federal and state requirements, including creating workforce analysis reports.
• Experience with alternatives to discipline
• Innovative stakeholder engagement. strategies to connect the community, the city, parents and partnerships to the needs of our learners.

Job Description:

Revitalization Essential Functions
Results Orientation

• Promote a widely shared instructional belief that every child deserves and can have expert instruction and that all team members must be advocates for students
• Sets high performance goals for themselves and others despite obstacles to success
• Creates a sense of urgency and takes immediate action to ensure early successes
• Establishes and monitors high standards for excellence with students, teachers, staff and other stakeholders
• Aligns school resources and prioritizes activities to achieve maximum results based on vision and goals
• Relentlessly focused school activities on student achievement
• Focuses on the District priorities while translating the vision to the context of the building.

Action Orientation

• Effectively plans and takes action to achieve goals and objectives without direction
• Demonstrates systems thinking, planning,support and evaluation.
• Consistently identifies potential issues and obstacles and proactively takes action to create and implement solutions
• Formulates and executes on action plans to decrease ambiguity, obstacles or resistance

Impact and Influence

• Establishes a culture of learning and achievement for all
• Acts consistently to influence others thinking and behavior to achieve results
• Communicates a clear vision of success and benefits to engage others
• Identifies and engages stakeholders (e.g. parents, community) to drive consensus, build trust and facilitate change
• Anticipates and respond to stakeholder concerns and identify and engage key influences and community resources necessary for success
• Influences others to take action and demands change

Develop and Lead High Performing Teams

• Effectively builds and organizes adult teams to mirror vision and produce maximum results.
• Understands team strengths and gaps
• Selects assignments to build team capacity
• Effectively delegates to others and engages team in decision-making
• Encourages learning and consistently provides instruction, expectations, feedback and other developmental activities to encourage leadership and build capacity
• Consistently inspires excellence and promotes high morale
• Quickly recognizes patterns and trends related to school performance
• Analyzes complex information to formulate strategic vision and develop action plans
• Identifies appropriate metrics and uses qualitative and quantitative data to assess performance and drive goals and decision-making
• Recognizes cause and effect between instructional activities and results
• Develops right balance of strategic and tactical plans to achieve immediate success while maintaining long-term vision
• Develops effective processes to achieve desired results

Confidence to Lead

• Consistently takes on challenging situations and believes in ability to effect change
• Demonstrates strong commitment to others and presents ideas with confidence
• Takes risks to achieve vision and goals, even if they deviate from the norm
• Takes personal responsibility for mistakes and learns from them, while consistently following up with analysis and corrective action

Possess the physical and mental attributes required to perform all essential functions.

Terms of Employment: Salary:
2021-2022 School Year Administrative Salary Schedule

Application Procedure

Applications are to be completed via the on-line Application Process .

https://www.applitrack.com/eastcleveland/onlineapp/

For more information on this position, please read the full description document.

• Job Posting 002 Elementary Revitalization Assistant Principal 2021.docx