2025-2026 High School Principal

The Chicago High School for the Arts seeks a Principal in the Administrative department for theschool year.

Job Identification:

Title: High School Principal

Department: Administration

Classification: FullTime

General Summary:

We are ChiArts. Chicagos first public arts high school. The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) develops the next generation of diverse artistically promising scholarartists through intensive preprofessional training in the arts combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum. Over 2500 hours of tuitionfree preprofessional arts training is provided to every scholarartist from freshman year to graduation. Our alumni are pioneers as scientists educators entrepreneurs and changemakers and from millions of plays on Spotify to touring with a dance company to published writing to making art that challenges and entertains us on stage and screen they are blazing new pathways.

Position Summary

The ChiArts Principal will lead as a creator innovator collaborator motivator and builder of confidence and trust; embodying the vision disposition and skills to work together with staff to foster a school culture of excellence ensure educator effectiveness and cultivate collaborative objectives between the Arts and Academics. ChiArts Principal will galvanize staff under dynamic leadership goals foster a robust professional learning community and contribute to the buildout of schoolwide strategic initiatives.

Strategic leadership

• Works collaboratively and flexibly to support and improve systems and decisionmaking processes that strengthen outcomes.
• Creates strengthens and maintains academic and cultural systems and procedures.
• Works collaboratively to improve academic and cultural systems and procedures that need improvement across stakeholders.
• Advances the vision mission and values of the school in concert with the Executive Director Artistic Director and School Board of Directors.

DataInformed leadership

• Reviews student learning data from a wholeschool perspective from Star 360 ACCESS and previous College Board assessments to inform followup and response to student learning needs.
• Ensures teachers use multiple sources of student learning data during common planning classroom observations and observation debriefings and holds teachers accountable for knowing how their students are progressing.
• Facilitates regular meetings with the grade level and department leads and ILT to build a datainformed culture that seeks continuous improvement.
• Collaborates with MTSS coordinator on the implementation and roll out of MTSS program
• Holds teachers accountable for knowing how their students are progressing
• Ensures teachers are using multiple sources of student learning data during common planning classroom observations and observation debriefings
• Creates and strengthens a datainformed culture that relentlessly seeks continuous improvement

Instructional Program

• Oversees the instructional program of the school ensuring its development delivery assessment and college readiness standards across grades.
• Regularly reviews the effectiveness of instructional strategies and works to implement or improve current professional development practices
• Collaborates with the case manager ELPT and MTSS coordinator to ensure they have the necessary support and guidance for our DL ML and highneeds students.
• Manages academic financial operational and personnel resources to support optimal instruction.
• Responsible for the overall instructional program of the school its development delivery assessment and college readiness standards across grades

ScholarArtist Behavioral Expectations

• Implements structures to teach and reinforce behaviors in collaboration with the Dean of Students.
• Develops the schools capacity to respond to students behavioral and socialemotional needs in developmentally appropriate ways.
• Monitors data to ensure that no child is invisible and that every student has access to supports within and beyond the school.

Effective Teaming

• Establishes manages and develops strong teams that collaborate communicate and work together for ChiArts students and its community
• Builds systems for distributed leadership through which members of the instructional leadership team manages specific initiatives and gradelevel teams or departments
• Develops a clear plan for adult learning across the school that aligns areas for wholeschool improvement teacher team areas of focus and individual development priorities

EquityCentered Leadership

• Possesses experience working directly with staff and students from diverse racial ethnic socioeconomic and LGTBQ communities as well as the understanding the need for equitable practices in all classrooms and spaces

Parent/Community Engagement

• Puts structures and processes in place to consistently partner with stakeholders including staff families and students to inform and adjust strategies.

Personal Leadership

• Demonstrates personal resolve and maintains core confidence and belief in self and the school even in the face of adversity.
• Continuously reflects on performance seeks feedback and actively pursues opportunities to improve personal leadership and the school.
• Inspires a schoolwide sense of positivism and possibility.

Reporting Relationship

• The ChiArts Principal reports to the Executive Director and supervises academic and student support school staff members.
• Responsible for employees including the schools Assistant Principal Counselors Case Manager and Dean of Students. Supports the Artistic Director and Director of Operations.

Other Duties

• Complete other duties/projects as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters Degree completion of a principal program and valid state principal license
• Minimum 4 years experience successfully leading academics in a high school setting (charter or district); previous secondary teaching experience also preferred
• Strong communicator written and verbal including presentations grant reporting and staff communication
• Previous experience interfacing with School Board of Directors and other stakeholders; such as union parents staff community partners
• Strong compliance management that aligns and complies with Chicago Public Schools requirements
• Technology fluent with deep knowledge of student management systems Google Suite Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint) and technology that enhances learning
• Expertise positively navigating in a union setting a collective bargaining agreement to inform decisions and a key player during negotiation years
• Resultsdriven datainformed and can do mentality
• Selfreflective about the work and leadership approach
• Excellent interpersonal human relations and conflict management skills
• Excellent planning goalsetting problemsolving and decisionmaking skills
• Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation
• Ability to work in a fastpaced environment demonstrating strong prioritization organization and followup.

Working Conditions:

Job Hazards: This position requires a fingerprint and background check conducted by Chicago Public Schools.

Travel Requirements:This position does not require travel as part of the job responsibilities however travel may be required to attend professional development/conferences.

Salary and Benefits:

FullTime position.

Salary Range: $145K $164K pay will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Application Process

Qualified applicants should apply online atwww.chiartsand upload the following documents:

1. Cover Letter
2. Resume
3. Contact Information for 35 Professional References; do not include letters of recommendation.

Applicants who do not follow the submission directions will not be considered. Please be aware that every item listed on a resume is subject to verification and that any offer of employment is contingent on a successful background check.

ChiArts has a commitment to diversity inclusion and cultural competency. Our aim is to maintain an inclusive respectful and equitable workplace in order to most effectively achieve our mission and secure the best possible outcomes for our students.

Please visitwww.chiartsfor more information.