Salem Academy Charter School Upper School Principal
Salem Academy Charter School Upper School Principal
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Job Description
ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW
Salem Academy Charter School (SACS) is a nationally ranked urban charter school north of Boston offering a rigorous college preparatory program to 480 students in grades 612. Since 2004 SACS has been committed to serving the diverse population of Salem. Through a unique integration of rigorous college preparatory classes with service to the community Salem Academy graduates informed articulate and proactive individuals of strong character.
Salem Academy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We seek to support a faculty and staff that reflects the rich diversity of our student body creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives ideas and identities are valued and integrated into our way of working and educating students.
To learn more about Salem Academy Charter School please visit .
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Upper School Principal is the educational leader of the high school program. The principal is responsible for student learning through a welldeveloped curriculum executed by a trained and talented faculty. The principal provides mission leadership for faculty and students assures the orderly running of the school and directs the daytoday operations of the Upper Schools academic and extracurricular life.
The Upper School Principal works closely with the Student Services Team to ensure that our 612 school culture is positive and inclusive for all. The Upper School Principal oversees the academic and social development of approximately 260 students in grades 912 and supervises a faculty and staff of roughly 3035 people. The Upper School Principal reports directly to the Senior Director of Academics who oversees the 612 educational program. The Senior Director of Academics reports to the Executive Director who the Board of Trustees appoints.
Successful candidates will be experienced professionals with proven skills in instructional leadership curriculum development problemsolving managing people and datadriven decision making. They will be selfstarters who are able to build effective teams through strong organizational and communication skills. Candidates will have experience developing a school community that is positive respectful and inclusive of all students. The ideal candidate will be passionate about SACSs mission and vision and have a proven track record of achieving academic success with a diverse student body. They will have experience leading socialemotional learning cultural proficiency and service learning.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Organizational Leadership
- Collaborates with the Executive Leadership Team and the Board of Trustees to finalize the schools short and longrange planning for possible growth expansion and new educational opportunities;
- Data is used to design professional development structures and annual calendars;
- Participates in recruiting hiring and development processes for academic staff ensuring compliance with DESE guidelines for charter school educators.
Instructional Leadership
- With the Instructional Leadership Team creates a missiondriven inclusive collegegoing culture of achievement that permeates the school and builds students academic skills and social and emotional competencies;
- With secondary leaders and faculty develops and implements the Salem Academys Upper School ServiceLearning program;
- Engages teachers in quarterly academic program analysis and manages longterm and annual school planning;
- Creates and implements effective professional development opportunities for their staff;
- With Curriculum Team Leaders (CTLs) develops and implements longterm curriculum assessment and instruction plans;
- Implements and continuously refines the cycles for teacher feedback and evaluation aligned with DESEs model educator evaluation system;
- Collaborates with the Director of College Counseling in reaching schoolwide goals around collegepreparedness matriculation and graduation;
- Uses data to design programming related to student culture course offerings athletics activities and electives.
Safe & Supportive School Culture
- Leads the Upper School Leadership Team (grade level leaders) in facilitating a safe and supportive culture across all grade levels ensuring all students are seen valued and supported;
- Maintains a visible presence in the daily life of the school: observing classrooms building relationships with students and enforcing school norms in a safe and supportive manner;
- Retains recruits and supports an excellent faculty capable of delivering an educational program that is innovative flexible and successful in meeting the needs of a diverse student population;
- Sustains and enhances a strong culture of achievement through classroom instruction coherent college preparatory curriculum daily rituals special events and extracurricular programs for grades 912;
- Cultivates a school culture that celebrates student achievement and diversity;
- Designs professional development sessions for staff related to schoolwide professional development themes;
- Supports a spirit of partnership and a strong sense of community among the schools students parents and faculty;
- Maintains and develops community partnerships particularly in support of ServiceLearning;
- Evaluates faculty according to DESEs model educator evaluation system.
Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
- Establishes timely interim assessments resulting in regular analysis of student data to drive increased achievement;
- Uses trend analysis of key student performance metrics (e.g. interim assessments graduation rate college matriculation and completion attendance discipline and attrition); to inform curricular choices and drive student achievement;
- Develops and implements assessment systems and processes to ensure that strategic instructional activities are in place to achieve the schools educational goals and objectives and meet state and federal accountability requirements;
- Oversees 912 curriculum development ensuring it meets state and federal requirements meets the terms of SACS mission provides appropriate rigor and meets the diverse needs of all students;
- Facilitates effective use of learning time by maximizing increased instructional time focused on student academic needs ensuring student engagement implementing differentiated instruction and focused interventions and integrating curriculum to strengthen key concepts across all subject areas;
- Ensures that classrooms are safe and supportive and teaching is grounded in culturally relevant pedagogy;
- Aligns the use of funds to support researchbased strategies that improve teaching and learning; oversees the allocation of materials and staff resources across grades 912.
Family and Community Engagement
- Ensures parents and community stakeholders are proactively engaged and invested in the schools culture and vision; supports faculty and staff in culturally proficient engagement of families;
- Supports the SFC (i.e. PTO) in fostering parent engagement and support for SACS;
- Works to systematically integrate feedback from families community members and other active school community participants around instructional decisions or ideas.
- Partners with the Development and Communications team to manage communication with families and SACS community;
- Serves as an ambassador and advocate of Salem Academy articulating the mission and program with clarity and enthusiasm. Attends school and community events as needed (e.g. El Punto Block Party Lions Club Speech Competition Scholarship/Awards Ceremonies etc..
Requirements
In order to fulfill these responsibilities the ideal Upper School Principal candidate will have:
- Unwavering belief in our mission and vision: that all students can achieve at high levels;
- Ability to promote a structured orderly safe and respectful school environment that fosters studentcentered learning;
- Demonstrated ability to connect with diverse students and families;
- Demonstrated ability to lead coach and collaborate with adults from a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds;
- Openness to change willingness to problemsolve and an interest in developing new ideas and programs;
- Selfawareness humility and integrity in all interactions personally and professionally;
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills;
- At least five years of teaching experience;
- At least three years of school leadership experience;
- Masters degree required;
- Massachusetts principals license preferred;
- Charter school experience preferred;
- Fluency in Spanish is a plus.
Benefits
This position offers a competitive salary range of $115000 $ details can be provided upon request.
TO APPLY
Please submit a resume online at For technical assistance or support with the application process please contact
Salem Academy Charter School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability marital status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.
Employment Type
Full-Time
