Principal - North Side Community School
Position: Principal
Subject Area: (none)
Job Title: Middle School Principal
Job Location: North Side Community School
Beginning: Immediately
Deadline: Open until filled **
District: North Side Community School
St. Louis, MO 63115
Telephone: None Specified
Email:
doug.thaman@northsidecommunityschool.org
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Job Description:
Compensation
With a competitive starting salary, we offer a generous compensation package with an array of benefits including assistance with advanced education. 

Essential Functions
Student Achievement & Instructional Leadership:
  • Lead and oversee the school’s instructional program.
  • Lead the implementation of an effective behavior management plan emphasizing behavior as learning.
  • Analyze data with teams and teachers regularly to maximize scholar performance.
  • Ensure that every student shows dramatic achievement gains and that the school meets the ambitious performance goals set by the school’s Board and Executive Director.
  • Design and create systems for assessments and the use of assessment results.
  • Identify best practice and ensure consistency and a high level of instructional quality in every class, every day, for every scholar.
Staff Development and Evaluation:
  • Works with the Curriculum and Instruction Team to ensure the planning of impactful professional development for all staff.
  • Create systems to ensure the proper supervision, observation, support, and evaluation of all school staff.
  • Assist with interviewing and selecting staff members that will significantly advance the mission of North Side Community School.
Parent & Community Partnership:
  • Cultivate positive relationships with parents and the local community.
  • Guarantee consistent, timely, and courteous communication between the school and parents.
  • Develop systems and opportunities for parent and community involvement.
Leadership & Management:
  • Establishment of a positive school culture
  • Ensure that the school runs smoothly, efficiently, and on budget.
  • Prepare reports on school and scholar progress.
  • Correspond with the Executive Director and provide timely reports on school performance including but not limited to the following: Academic performance, staff morale, enrollment, attendance, assessments, HR matters, and technology.

Skills & Characteristics
  • Have at least three years of experience successfully teaching and providing meaningful leadership in an urban or alternative school, including a track record of dramatically improving student achievement.
  • Master’s degree in education preferred (or a comparable amount of experience).
  • Have experience with teacher coaching and evaluation.
  • Be a highly collaborative, results-oriented, adaptable, problem-solving self-starter.
  • Embrace using data to inform instructional planning and practice.
  • Comfortable analyzing student performance results and working to improve instructional practices.
  • Experience in standards-based, backwards planning.
  • Experience working in an entrepreneurial, dynamic school or related demanding environment.
  • Desire for rigorous, choice-based professional development and coaching with a focus on continuous improvement and instructional effectiveness.
  • Be positive, thoughtful, passionate, articulate, motivating, and empowering with students and team members.
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Be computer savvy, with proficiency in email, word processing, spreadsheets, Google Docs, etc. 

Education and Certification
  • Current Missouri Certification for School Leadership.
  • Master’s degree in education preferred.
  • Three years of school administration experience preferred.
North Side Community School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying to the school. North Side Community School does not discriminate based on race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

** District reserves the right to close any Job Posting when a suitable applicant has been found before the deadline date.
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