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Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences - Executive Principal

Employer
Hamilton County Department of Education
Location
Chattanooga, TN, United States
Salary
Competitive

Job Details

Overview

The Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences (CSAS) is a Paideia- themed magnet school that serves grades K-12. We enroll students from across Hamilton County, and this diversity allows our students to experience the myriad perspectives in the workforce and in life. Our school is small, and we work to create a community where students and teachers can work collaboratively. At CSAS, we believe that all students can learn and deserve the best teachers and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. Our Paideia philosophy encourages our students to have civil discourse; we want our students to be open-minded, life-long learners, who desire to benefit society.

The purpose of this job is to provide effective instructional leadership and school operations. Major responsibilities include instructional leadership, people centered management, organizational management, student development, facility maintenance and management, fiscal management activities, and developing effective community relations.

Responsibilities

Instructional Leadership

Clear & Compelling Vision
  • Collaboratively creates and communicates a clear, compelling vision of high academic achievement and growth
  • Establish a clear focus and inspire others by gaining buy-in and commitment
  • Serve as a change agent by actively challenging the status quo to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps
  • Inspire and lead new and challenging innovations for high achievement and growth


Instructional Leadership
  • Build and maintain high expectations for continuous student growth and academic achievement with supportive accountability systems
  • Sustain a data-driven vision by setting challenging goals with appropriate, relevant milestones for progress monitoring
  • Conduct classroom observations, identify effective instructional planning and delivery instruction and provide actionable feedback that results in improved student learning
  • Build capacity of educators to provide all students a rigorous standards-based curriculum that is culturally responsive
  • Ensure students master grade-level standards by aligning curriculum, instruction and assessments
  • Build systems for professional learning communities and high quality common planning

People Centered Management

Balanced Leadership and Capacity Building
  • Provides clear expectations for staff performance and communicates success and needed improvements regularly.
  • Create structures that systematically gather input and empower teachers as decision makers
  • Implement and monitor a rigorous evaluation system and use educator evaluation data to inform, assess, and adjust differentiated professional learning plans, performance improvement plans and goals
  • Maintain a robust talent management system that displays effective recruitment, interview, and selection skills that lead to quality hiring decisions
  • Develop structures for mentoring used to induct, support, retain, grow and extend effective educators based on evidence of student and educator outcomes
  • Empower teachers to use their collective strengths, skills and experiences to own and lead teams, trainings and innovative initiatives


Family Involvement and Communities
  • Include a diverse set of educators and stakeholders in school improvement planning and decision-making
  • Develop structures to actively involve families in the education of their children targeting academically focused engagement
  • Strategically utilize, align, and measure community resources and partners to equitably support the school's mission, vision, and goals
  • Ensure that the school community communicates regularly with families regarding student progress and needs
  • Partner with community allies to provide whole-child supports


Organizational and Systems Management

Culture of Care within a Purposeful Community
  • Foster a safe, orderly, culturally responsive and equitable learning environment for all stakeholders
  • Communicate effectively with all stakeholders
  • Resolve conflict positively and directly
  • Embrace diverse points of view and foster an environment that is comfortable with dissent
  • Develop structures to actively engage student, staff, parent, and community voice with a keen awareness to the voices that are often overlooked
  • Reflect regularly, accurately assesses personal strengths and growth areas, and seek feedback and professional development to improve


Management
  • Collaboratively create and monitor school action plans with an intentional focus on prioritizing marginalized students and subgroups
  • Collect, analyze, and uses multiple forms of data to make decisions
  • Identify problems, analyze root causes and develop effective resolution strategies
  • Systematically monitor and adjust progress toward established goals and facilitate procedures and practices leading to improvement by utilizing a continuous improvement process
  • Demonstrate the ability to prioritize appropriately
  • Demonstrate the flexibility to adapt leadership behavior to the needs of the current situation
  • Demonstrate an awareness implicit bias and the ways that bias hold systems of marginalization in place
  • Establish, communicate, and enforce a set of standard operating procedures and routines that ensure school safety and are aligned with district, state and federal policy
  • Perform all budgetary responsibilities with accuracy, transparency, and in alignment with school action plans
  • Allocate resources equitably

Equality & Ethics
  • Articulate the value of diversity and equity within a purposeful community
  • Communicate and operate from strong ideals and beliefs about schooling grounded in ethical decision-making
  • Exhibit a commitment to equity and create a sense of urgency to close achievement gaps and prepare all students for college, career, and life
  • Embed cultural competence in all aspects of school instruction and practices
  • Leverage educator strengths to engage all students in meaningful, culturally aware, and relevant learning opportunities

School openings:

1. Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences

Qualifications

Knowledge/Education/Experience:
  • Master's degree and current valid Tennessee administrative license are required. Successful classroom teaching experience and successful administrative experience are required.

Skills/Qualifications:
  • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills to deal effectively with students, educators, parents, and community members.
  • Demonstrate excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, decision-making, and time management skills.

Company

Hamilton County Schools, located in beautiful Chattanooga, TN, is hiring, supporting, and retaining outstanding top teaching talent. We are the fastest improved district in Tennessee and have a goal to become the best. With nearly 80 schools located in urban, rural, and suburban communities, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County.

Why Join our Team?  

New Teacher Support: With our progressive three-year induction program for new teachers, you will have the following supports: 

  • New Teacher Academy 
  • First Year Mentor & Supportive Professional Development 
  • Whole-Teacher/Well-Teacher (wellness & mindfulness training) 

Leadership Opportunities: Grow your career with Hamilton County Schools, no matter your professional goals: 

  • Train to become a mentor teacher or professional development presenter
  • Obtain your National Board Certification and get a $4,000 salary increase 
  • Apply for leadership pipeline programs for instructional coaching or administration 
  • Be a part of innovative programs that are unique to Hamilton County like Teacherpreneur and STEM Fellows
  • Travel the world as a Fund for Teachers recipient

Experience all Chattanooga has to offer:

  • Chattanooga has a metro area of 500,000 people - not too big and not too small - and under two hours from Nashville, Atlanta, Knoxville, and Birmingham
  • Award-winning city for outdoor activities, music, art and culture
  • 25 + local music, art, and food festivals every year

We are seeking teaching candidates who are:

  • Committed to high academic achievement and high expectations for all students
  • Able to be a positive team-player and communicate effectively with colleagues, supervisors, students, and families
  • Open to being coached and receiving feedback in order to advance learning and growth for students
  • Experienced in high-need or Title-I School settings. Experience with English Language Learners is a plus.
  • Professionals with high personal standards and integrity

Compensation & Total Rewards 

  • Competitive salary range commensurate with experience
  • Comprehensive benefits package includes multiple health insurance options, vision, dental reimbursement, short and long-term disability, life insurance, on-site clinics, and a wellness program 
  • Childcare for Hamilton County teachers available in multiple schools 
  • Competitive retirement plans through Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, including a hybrid 401k and pension plan. In 2018, TCRS was ranked in the top four best funded State Pension plans by the Pew Charitable Trust. 

About Hamilton County Schools

 Hamilton County Schools, located in beautiful Chattanooga, TN, is the fastest improving district in the state of Tennessee. We believe in success for all students and are dedicated to helping all students succeed to their highest potential.  With nearly 80 schools located in urban, rural, and suburban communities, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County.

Who we serve: Hamilton County Schools serves over 42,000 students across our diverse county in urban, rural and suburban communities. Our families speak 125 languages and approximately 8.5% of our students are English language learners.

Our results: The state of Tennessee has recognized Hamilton County as an “Advancing” school district.

A few of our recent achievements include:

  • #2 out of 146 districts in the state of Tennessee for student growth and a Level 5 district for 2018-2019
  • 45 Level 5 schools and 32 reward schools
  • 16 Volkswagen E-Labs - the highest concentration of fabrication labs of any district in the US or abroad
  • Milken Award winning teacher; State Principal of the Year (2017)
  • 13 High Schools with over 18 Future Ready Institutes
Company info
Website
Telephone
4234987048
Location
3074 Hickory Valley Road
Chattanooga
TN
37421
US

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