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Position at IDEA Public Schools

Executive Principal Overview

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that all of our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 58% of our students graduate from college in 6 years - that's 8 times the national rate for students in our communities!

IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve nearly 45,000 students across Texas and Louisiana. By 2022, IDEA will serve 100,000 students. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with continued growth in our current regions and new launches in Tarrant County (Fort Worth/Arlington), New Orleans, Houston (2020), Permian Basin (2021), and Tampa Bay (2021)!

When you choose to work at IDEA as an Executive Principal, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

To learn more about IDEA, check out this video .

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Strong desire to ensure all students go to and through college

- Demonstrated instructional leadership experience with proven results

- Commitment to continuously improving every single day

- Ability to navigate complex situations with positivity and assertiveness

- Awareness of personal strengths and areas of improvement

- Experience leading a school to dramatic gains in a challenging context

- Plan all actions of leader and teachers to achieve rapid, dramatic gains

- Influence others to contribute to rapid, dramatic gains

Three Profiles

• Executive Principal- Turnaround: Improve student achievement results on turnaround campus
• Executive Principal- Full Scale: Improve student achievement results for a K-12 campus
• Executive Principal- Manager: Directly manage 1 or more principals to ensure all goals are met, in addition to leading an academy (K-5) or college prep (6-12) campus

Accountabilities:

100% of IDEA seniors are accepted and matriculate to college in the fall after their senior year

• Develop and maintain a culture in which all students are expected to go to and graduate from college
• Communicate these expectations to all students, families, and other key stakeholders regularly and ensure targeted follow-up with all seniors until they officially matriculate
• Ensure that 50% of IDEA seniors are accepted to Tier I/II colleges or universities

25% of IDEA alumni graduate from college in 4 years; 55% of IDEA alumni graduate from college in 6 years

• Develop and support a culture in which all students are expected to go to and graduate from college
• Engage IDEA alumni throughout their college career, but particularly in their first two years in college to ensure they remain enrolled, persist fall to spring, and remain enrolled in college

School(s) improves on 100% of unmet performance goals by the end of the school year

• 100% of teachers implement high-quality curriculum leading to academic gains, including but not limited to: Direct Instruction, Hybrid Learning, AP for All, Critical Student Intervention.

School (s) meet 100% of Academic Goals, which are: Student Achievement

• 90% at Level II/30% at Level III on STAAR/EOC exams.
• Junior Class ACT Average Score of 21
• 90% of Pre-K-2nd students are on/above grade level in reading , language, and math DI (all campuses).
• 85% of 1st-2nd students are on/above grade level in reading , language, and math Direct Instruction (Year 2+ campuses)
• 70% of 1st-2nd students are on/above grade level in reading , language, and math Direct Instruction (Year 1+ campuses)
• Student Growth
• 100% of schools will achieve Index 2 scores of 60 for Academies and 50 for College Preps for STAAR/EOC.
• 50% of all students in CSI Literacy Intervention grow two or more years in Reading and Math.

School attains 97.5% Average Daily Attendance.

• Vocalize significance of attendance compliance procedures and ensure/monitor they are followed at every campus
• 90% of students persist within the IDEA system year-to-year, no appeals
• 100% of campuses meet enrollment target by close of business Friday of first week of school.
• Manage healthy adult and student school culture, resulting in positive organizational health results, employee retention, student persistence, and family feedback (assessed informally).
• Develop school leadership team members into transformational individuals who can lead their campus

Hire and keep 100% of top talent

• Retain 85% of all Principals and 95% of high-performing Principals.
• 100% of schools meet instructional staff retention goal of 85%
• 100% of schools meet teacher retention goal of 85%
• 100% of schools meet staff hiring goals and timelines
• Ensure high-quality talent review process at least twice per year for teachers and for leaders
• 83% / 43% Agree/Strongly Agree Organizational Health Results for schools
• Developing Talent
• 100% of PIRs will meet ILP Development Goals
• 100% of campuses will measure Teacher development, aligned to the GET rubric, and show growth for 100% of teachers.

Organization Improvement: Organizational Guidance

• Successfully leverage key relationships in 100% of functional areas, to ask for feedback and provide guidance for both campuses and HQ partners.
• Results-focused Coordination
• With ED, coordinate with, develop and provide feedback to ensure 100% of goals are met for the following campus partners:
  • HA Partners: Regional Directors of Instructional Coaching, Directors of Leader Development, Talent Partners and leader hiring managers
  • Program Partners: both internal (e.g. curriculum team, curriculum managers, Individualized Learning Managers) and external (e.g. NIFDI, NMSI)
  • Operations Partners: Regional Directors of Operations
  • College Success and Alumni Success Team Partners

Live Values of IDEA

• Believes and is committed to our mission: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Is driven by outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• Embodies IDEA's core values

Competencies:

• Mission Focus - focuses on IDEA's core purpose of getting all students into college
• Record of Results - holds high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals
• Managing Others to Deliver Results -- leads a team to achieve measurable and ambitious results
• Instructional Leadership - leads instructional staff to improve their teaching quickly and measurably through observations, coaching, data conversations, and effective evaluations
• Problem Solving - able to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies for achieving quantifiable goals
• Coaching & Developing - develop a team through formal and informal methods; makes professional development a top priority
• Communication - effectively conveys information using a variety of channels and techniques
• Continuous Improvement - proactively identifies opportunities to improve and consistently reflects on past actions to guide future decisions

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree
• Experience: a Proven track record of personally achieving success and of leading others
• 3+ years of K - 12 teaching experience
• 3+ years of leading a school to dramatic gains in a challenging context

Outcomes:

• Exemplary student achievement on internal and external assessments
• Students graduate IDEA and enroll in a four-year college or university
• Students remain enrolled at IDEA until graduation

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.