This is a unique leadership opportunity for a high-quality educator with a laser like focus on the teaching and learning process with a clear understanding of how to effectively manage operational systems including budget and facilities. The individual must be passionate about equity and creating powerful school communities that work for students and families who have been traditionally underserved. The principal will lead the ongoing focus for success to raise student achievement. The principal will collaborate with teachers, parents, community members, district administration, and other internal and external resources and stakeholders to implement effective educational programs, building improvements, systems, tools, community partnerships, and other resources to accelerate student achievement.Performance Responsibilities: 1. Promote the achievement and growth of all students and the success of all staff by cultivating and creating a shared vision that makes powerful teaching and learning the central focus of schooling and ensures every student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education and become responsible citizens and community contributors 2. Continually monitor and assess progress, provide feedback, and connect educators to additional supports as needed 3. Ensure that instructional practices in all settings reflect high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work, engage all students, and are personalized to accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness 4. Ensure that all teachers use a variety of formal and informal methods and assessments to measure student learning, growth, and understanding and make necessary adjustments to their practice when students are not yet learning 5. Provide effective and timely supervision and evaluation in alignment with state regulations and contract provisions 6. Use multiple sources of evidence related to student learning, including state, district, and school assessment results and growth data to inform school and district goals and improve organizational performance, educator effectiveness, and student learning 7. Promote the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff by ensuring a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment, using resources to implement appropriate curriculum, staffing and scheduling 8. Understand and comply with state and federal laws and mandates, school committee policies, collective bargaining agreements and ethical guidelines 9. Promote the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff through effective partnerships with families, community organizations and other stakeholders that support the mission and vision of the school and district 10. Address family concerns in an equitable, effective, efficient, and culturally responsive manner 11. Ensure that policies and practices enable staff members and students to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which students’ backgrounds, identities, strengths, and challenges are respected 12. Demonstrate strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills 13. Develop and nurture a culture in which staff members are reflective about their practice and use student data, current research, best practices and theory to continuously adapt instruction and achieve improved results. Model these behaviors in the administrator’s own practice14. Employ strategies for responding to disagreement and dissent, constructively resolving conflict and building consensus throughout a district/school community 15. Eliminate racial gaps and biases within the school or district in student access, opportunities, and outcomes so that all children experience high-quality, rigorous and culturally relevant, grade- level instruction