Middle School Principal (2026-2027 SY)

Valor Collegiate Academies•Nashville, TN

34d•$105,800 - $124,200•Onsite

About The Position

Valor’s Voyager Middle School (part of the Valor Collegiate Academies network) is hiring an experienced school leader to become our next Principal in the 2026-2027 school year. We are looking for someone who is excited to share our mission of academic excellence and empowering scholars to live inspired and purposeful lives. The Principal serves as the leader of our campus leadership team, directly managing other school-based leaders, including AP of Culture, AP of Academics, and Director of Operations, to achieve exceptional outcomes for all students. Additionally, this role also sits on our network’s overall leadership team, working alongside our C-Suite on all efforts to set and achieve our network vision and reporting to the Chief of Schools. At the heart of the Principal role is to lead our Voyager team from a place of kindness and curiosity, embracing Valor’s organizational commitments. Outside the traditional responsibilities one would expect of a principal, success in this role requires an incredible level of self-reflection, candor, authenticity, and vulnerability. In our diverse by design model, this includes a deep emphasis on one’s ongoing effort to acknowledge, excavate, and address one’s own biases, and how those biases impact one’s leadership of our intentionally diverse community.

Requirements

Have direct experience in coaching instructional coaches, setting an academic and/or culture vision for a school, organization, or network, and coaching teachers
Have a Bachelor’s in Education or subject area of interest
Have a track record of success in previous school leadership and/or teacher-leader role
Have a proven track record of high achievement in a high school classroom or in previous leadership positions
Have a relentless drive to develop your leadership practice and to sharpen your skills as a leader in education
Are self-aware and reflective with a strong desire to continuously grow professionally and personally
Have a growth mindset and are quick to incorporate feedback into your daily practice
Have the ability to set and reach ambitious goals, and can handle the intensity required to thrive in a high-performing school environment
Thrive on data. You can analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform instructional decisions
Have the passion and commitment to serve an ethnically & economically diverse student body
Value and enjoy cultivating deep relationships with students, families, and faculty to create a positive school environment
Value the importance of modeling and reinforcing the school’s core values, norms, and policies

Nice To Haves

master’s degree preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Serve as the overall leader of every facet of the school: a visible, present, hands-on leader responsible for all academic and cultural systems and all student outcomes.
Collaborate and partner with Valor’s organizational leaders (CEO, Chief Culture Officer, Chief Academic Officer, Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chief of Schools, Chief Operating Officer, and Managing Director of Talent) to fully integrate Valor’s organizational anchors into Voyager’s campus.
Main point of contact for student interactions/responsibilities and with primary caregivers.
Hiring manager for school leadership, teacher, and paraprofessional positions at Voyager.
Oversee strategy around budget and its intersection with staffing, schedules, duties, etc.
Oversee the academic/instructional calendar process
Coach and lead the school’s leadership team including the Assistant Principal - Culture, Assistant Principal - Academics, and Director of Operations.
Manage school leadership team members to drive academic and cultural results
Manage attendance intervention plans and case management oversight
Serve as a primary planner and leader in “Base Camp” (Valor’s summer professional development for all staff).
Work with school leadership team members to create and manage employee support and improvement plans.
Partner with Valor’s CAO, school leaders, and instructional coaches in the development and implementation of strong middle school curriculum grades 5-8
Collaborate with the operations leaders on matters related to academic operations (i.e. benchmark testing, testing schedules and coordination)
Support school academic data analysis alongside the school leadership team to identify gaps in scholar data and effectively problem solve
Design and lead ongoing network and school-based professional development sessions for teachers, instructional coaches, and other school-based faculty
Keep current with standards, benchmarks, and indicators; develop standards-based instructional planning tools and resources
Facilitate the creation and revision of network vertical and horizontal alignment maps for standards, skills, content, assessment types, writing and research, and student support
Provide teachers and instructional coaches with support in intellectual preparation of their subject areas as well as high-quality, actionable data analysis
Lead staff, students, and their caregivers as a model of our community’s commitments, as well as have clear and kind conversations to hold all stakeholders, including oneself, accountable when they aren’t yet living out those commitments.
Lead the Assistant Principal in Culture to implement strong systems and routines in order to create a safe, productive, and joyful school environment, utilizing data systems for a data-driven response.
Manage and oversee all student, family, and faculty culture outcomes via stakeholder survey input and campus and organization wide culture dashboards. This includes, but is not limited to, annual family surveys and bi-annual scholar and faculty surveys, positivity ratio, attendance data, discipline incidents, circle outcomes and more.
Maintain active and strong relationships with students and families to support students in meeting academic goals or provide social-emotional support
Support the Assistant Principal of Culture to align the vision and implementation of Valor’s Compass system, the school-wide positive behavioral intervention system
Serve as a liaison between teachers, parents, leaders, and the community
Coach a small cohort of teachers to improve their practice through individualized coaching, professional development series, modeling, and collaborative planning
Guide teachers’ understanding of, and model the Valor Core Teaching Framework to ensure consistent, high quality instruction
Consistently analyze teacher practice through weekly classroom observations, data analysis, and examination of student work
Create targeted, individualized coaching plans to empower teacher growth and development
Collaborate and lead specific grade level or content team meetings
Create and deliver professional learning sessions for teachers centered on effective teaching strategies and data analysis
When needed, create and implement teacher development plans to support teachers with targeted growth and improvement areas
Lead weekly State of School meetings and morning staff huddles to update staff on key progress towards priorities and metrics
Manage communications to faculty and families via a weekly memo and principal update
Enforce, uphold, and exhibit school’s values, student management policies, and culture
Own an arrival duty, midday/lunch duty, and dismissal duty
Attend family meetings, orientation, and other school events
Lead and/or attend faculty Circle one hour per week; present 2-3 pieces of Badge Work every school year in faculty Circles

Benefits

Full comprehensive health and retirement benefits
Annualized salary of $105,800-$124,200
Free access to an on-site strength & conditioning facility, Vanderbilt Health Clinic, retirement counseling, and mental health support and resources
Employee laptops and unlimited supplies
Full-time employees wishing to enroll their student at Valor in grades 5-12 will be placed at the top of the new student waitlist

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