Principal - Central High School

Hamilton County Schools•Chattanooga, TN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Hamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County. Learn more about working for Hamilton County Schools at careers.hcde.org and get to know us and our strategic plan, Opportunity 2030. Central High School is a 9-12 school located in Harrison, TN. Our school has a rich history and long-standing traditions. We are a diverse community that promotes acceptance and collaboration. Unique to Central is our strong alumni support and involvement. We are looking for teachers who have a sense of purpose and calling to teach and who have a compelling nature. Central teachers believe that every student is important and are motivated to help their students master content and prepare them for post-secondary life after Central. The purpose of this job is to provide effective instructional leadership and school operations. Major responsibilities include instructional leadership, people centered management, organizational management, student development, facility maintenance and management, fiscal management activities, and developing effective community relations.

Requirements

Master’s degree
Current valid Tennessee administrative license
Successful classroom teaching experience
Successful administrative experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to deal effectively with students, educators, parents, and community members.
Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, decision-making, and time management skills.

Responsibilities

Collaboratively creates and communicates a clear, compelling vision of high academic achievement and growth
Establishes a clear focus and inspires others by gaining buy-in and commitment
Serves as a change agent by actively challenging the status quo to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps
Inspires and leads new and challenging innovations for high achievement and growth
Builds and maintains high expectations for continuous student growth and academic achievement with supportive accountability systems
Sustains a data-driven vision by setting challenging goals with appropriate, relevant milestones for progress monitoring
Conducts classroom observations, identifies effective instructional planning and delivery instruction and provides actionable feedback that results in improved student learning
Builds capacity of educators to provide all students a rigorous standards-based curriculum that is culturally responsive
Ensures students master grade-level standards by aligning curriculum, instruction and assessments
Builds systems for professional learning communities and high quality common planning
Provides clear expectations for staff performance and communicates success and needed improvements regularly.
Creates structures that systematically gather input and empower teachers as decision makers
Implements and monitors a rigorous evaluation system and uses educator evaluation data to inform, assess, and adjust differentiated professional learning plans, performance improvement plans and goals
Maintains a robust talent management system that displays effective recruitment, interview, and selection skills that lead to quality hiring decisions
Develops structures for mentoring used to induct, support, retain, grow and extend effective educators based on evidence of student and educator outcomes
Empowers teachers to use their collective strengths, skills and experiences to own and lead teams, trainings and innovative initiatives
Includes a diverse set of educators and stakeholders in school improvement planning and decision-making
Develops structures to actively involve families in the education of their children targeting academically focused engagement
Strategically utilizes, aligns, and measures community resources and partners to equitably support the school’s mission, vision, and goals
Ensures that the school community communicates regularly with families regarding student progress and needs
Partners with community allies to provide whole-child supports
Fosters a safe, orderly, culturally responsive and equitable learning environment for all stakeholders
Communicates effectively with all stakeholders
Resolves conflict positively and directly
Embraces diverse points of view and fosters an environment that is comfortable with dissent
Develops structures to actively engage student, staff, parent, and community voice with a keen awareness to the voices that are often overlooked
Reflects regularly, accurately assesses personal strengths and growth areas, and seeks feedback and professional development to improve
Collaboratively creates and monitors school action plans with an intentional focus on prioritizing marginalized students and subgroups
Collects, analyzes, and uses multiple forms of data to make decisions
Identifies problems, analyzes root causes and develops effective resolution strategies
Systematically monitors and adjusts progress toward established goals and facilitates procedures and practices leading to improvement by utilizing a continuous improvement process
Demonstrates the ability to prioritize appropriately
Demonstrates the flexibility to adapt leadership behavior to the needs of the current situation
Demonstrates an awareness of implicit bias and the ways that bias hold systems of marginalization in place
Establishes, communicates, and enforces a set of standard operating procedures and routines that ensure school safety and are aligned with district, state and federal policy
Performs all budgetary responsibilities with accuracy, transparency, and in alignment with school action plans
Allocates resources equitably
Articulates the value of diversity and equity within a purposeful community
Communicates and operates from strong ideals and beliefs about schooling grounded in ethical decision-making
Exhibits a commitment to equity and creates a sense of urgency to close achievement gaps and prepare all students for college, career, and life
Embeds cultural competence in all aspects of school instruction and practices
Leverages educator strengths to engage all students in meaningful, culturally aware, and relevant learning opportunities