Assistant Principal, Salem High School, Salem Public School SY 2024-2025

About Salem Public Schools

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public School educators are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement. We respect and value the racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of our students and their families, and have a strong commitment to the Salem community. We seek individuals who are able to serve all of our students, regardless of ability, economic status, gender/gender identity, language, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other backgrounds. Salem Public Schools has a clear equity statement and core values that guide and drive our work as an anti-racist organization. Applicants who have experienced working in urban schools and have bilingual skills are strongly encouraged to apply.

What You’ll Do:

A priority of the school is to ensure that all students are challenged by an academic experience that is accessible, rigorous, relevant, and engaged. To ensure that this goal is realized, Salem High School has begun a redesign process intended to bring the school’s programs and practices in alignment with this goal and the demands of a rapidly changing world. The redesign effort is anchored in an overall goal of excellence and equity. In addition to supporting the management of the day-to-day operations of Salem High School, the Assistant Principal will play a key role in the high school redesign effort. To see the Salem Public School’s High School Redesign goals click here.

Role Responsibilities

• Developing and supporting systems of accountability for staff and students
• Supports the principal in building, developing, and sustaining an effective leadership team and teacher teams
• Recruits, hires, develops, and retains effective and caring teachers and other professional staff
• Delivers actionable feedback about instruction and other professional practices via coaching and written observations
• Ensures that all staff are evaluated annually and receive ongoing, timely actionable verbal and written feedback
• Builds educators’ capacity for assessment for learning and strategic data use
• Addresses instances of underperformance and provides guidance for staff to improve
• Makes learning and the social and emotional growth of all students the core mission and organizing force of the work.
• Creates and maintains an inclusive learning environment
• Employs an approach to assessment and curriculum design that reduces barriers and optimizes levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners.
• Strong knowledge of MA curriculum frameworks and standards-based practices.
• Other duties as assigned by building principal or their designee

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.

• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.

• Build authentic, caring relationships with colleagues, students, and families – You build strong relationships across students, families, and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.

• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from failure, using mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (Required); Master’s Degree (Preferred)
• Possess a Massachusetts administrator’s licensure or in an approved program
• 3 years of teaching experience, preferably in an urban setting serving a diverse population
• Administrative and/or teacher leadership experience
• Comprehensive, current knowledge of high school curriculum, instruction, and assessment
• Experience and expertise working with ELLs and students with disabilities
• Driven to improve the minds and lives of all students in and out of school
• Dedicated to providing a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for all students
• Effective use of data as a basis for decision-making
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Work Year: This administrative position is a full-time, full-year position in the Salem Public Schools working a 260 day school year. Please visit www.salemk12.org to view the 2024-25 district and/or school calendar.

Salary: Administrator salaries in the Salem Public Schools are determined by the Salem Administrators Association (SAA) collective bargaining Agreement.

Benefits: The City of Salem offers Group Insurance Commission (GIC) benefits to all full-time employees. Click here for more information about our health benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, housing status, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.