2025-2026 Middle School Principal
2025-2026 Middle School Principal
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$ 115000 - 130000
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Principal MLK Jr Campus
Job Title: Principal
FLSA Status: Professional Exempt
Reports to: Chief Academic Officer
Yu Ming Charter School seeks dynamic innovative and experienced educators to join our team committed to nurturing lifelong learners who are bilingual bicultural and able to create change in their own lives and in our community. We seek teachers that are excited by the possibility of transforming the traditional model of education to be learnercentered through personalized and project based learning that cultivates both the cognitive and social emotional skills our students need to thrive in school and beyond. Yu Ming teachers are leaders that thrive on exploration collaboration and seek to continuously learn and grow as individuals and team members.
ABOUT YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL
Yu Ming Charter School is a nonprofit tuitionfree network of public schools located in Oakland and San Leandro and open to all residents of California. As a leader in Mandarin Immersion education our mission is to nurture our inclusive and diverse community to become empowered engaged and outstanding global citizens. We currently serve 952 students across three campuses and continue to grow our enrollment each year. Our intentionally diverse student body comes from many racial ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds representing 70 zip codes across the Bay Area and 29 home languages. Founded in 2011 Yu Ming is the first Mandarin immersion public charter school in the state.
We believe every child regardless of their background or zip code deserves a free highquality education that prepares them today to succeed tomorrow. Ranked the #7 Elementary School and the #2 Elementary Charter School in California by U.S. News Yu Ming is a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and a 2020 and 2023 California Distinguished School. Yu Mings futureforward model prepares young people to succeed and thrive in an interconnected and multicultural world through personalized and rigorous learning experiences active student agency whole child and community focus and multilingual education. As a result our students far outperform their peers in the district county and state regardless of socioeconomic status race language background and learning differences. We are closing the opportunity gap for our historically underserved students every day. To learn more about our innovative school visit our website .
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Principal of Yu Ming Charter School (YMCS) at the MLK Jr Campus collaborates with Yu Mings Principal team Director of Academics and Chief Academic Officer in the development coordination articulation and evaluation of curriculum instruction professional development and assessment. The Principal will oversee the daytoday instruction for the G48 school; lead the implementation of Yu Mings dualimmersion instructional program; find retain and develop highquality faculty and staff; and support all members of this diverse community with cultural competence and an emphasis on respect and inclusion. This person will report to the Chief Academic Officer and will supervise teachers and other staff. This person will work in close collaboration with a team of equityminded and learnercentered teachers committed to ensuring every child can achieve college and career readiness and become bilingual and biliterate changemakers in their own lives and communities.
CORE COMPETENCIES
- One or more of the following areas of expertise:
- Personalized learning; service learning;
- Antiracist antibias education;
- Whole child education and deep knowledge of socialemotional learning; and
- Mandarin immersion or dual language immersion.
- Skills to form and maintain relationships with a broad range of individuals and across areas of difference like cultural background linguistic heritage race class socioeconomic status and family structure.
- Ability to balance the urgency of problem solving in the moment with the need to establish enduring systems so the school can run efficiently over the longterm.
- Exceptional people management skills that inspire team members help identify their areas of growth and opportunities to support them in their professional development.
- Highly flexible and comfortable with change growth and possibility.
- Skilled collaborator communicator and relationshipbuilder.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership Responsibilities duties may include:
- Serve as a supervisor and coach of teachers in the YMCS teacher evaluation growth and development system.
- Serve on the School Site Leadership Team and Instructional Leadership Team.
- Support the daily school operations as needed.
- Participate in the hiring process and inform staff recruiting and hiring decisions.
Principal Responsibilities duties may include:
- Maintain the schools highly rigorous academic program by serving as an instructional coach and working with teachers to set appropriate goals and priorities (and metrics for their measurement).
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with all school stakeholders (students faculty/staff parents board members) ensuring transparent lines of communication at all times and addressing issues and concerns in a timely and constructive manner.
- Ensure that all teachers and staff have clear lines of communication to and from the administrative team that everyone understands who their supervisor is and is receiving regular feedback support and evaluation of their progress and areas for development.
- Ensure the school provides adequate student services that meet students academic and social emotional needs and those related to school safety including developing and staffing these functions appropriately and measuring results to ensure their effectiveness.
Yu Ming Professional Culture Responsibilities duties may include:
- Exhibit a high level of honest and humble selfreflection owning good and bad outcomes.
- Effectively respond to and implement constructive feedback.
- Create a healthy highachieving environment where staff and students feel challenged and also fully supported and valued.
- Regular attendance dependability and punctuality in conformance with the standards is essential to the successful performance of this position.
This job description and responsibility list in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other jobrelated instructions and to perform any other jobrelated duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
QUALIFICATIONS
- A proven instructional leader with experience running a high performing school and is knowledgeable about best practices in language immersion programs.
- A seasoned professional and experienced manager who knows how to recruit coach and develop teachers and staff at all levels.
- An exceptional relationship builder who can quickly gain the confidence of multiple stakeholder groups including families faculty/staff and students.
- A passionate advocate for all students and families who has a commitment to building a strong culture of diversity equity and inclusion at Yu Ming.
- Knowledgeable about the academic and social emotional needs of students especially those of different racial linguistic cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Dynamic and versatile able to engage a variety of stakeholders in dialogue and speak in a clear compelling and authentic manner both about the schools goals and priorities and the leaders decisionmaking process and plans towards meeting them.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree required.
- CA administrator credential preferred.
TIME COMMITMENT
180day school year 8 studentfree professional development days for collaboration with colleagues. Common building hours are 8:00am3:30pm Monday 8:00am4pm TuesdayFriday.
Terms of Employment: 12 Months
SALARY AND BENEFITS
Yu Ming offers a generous salary and benefits package which includes:
- $115000$130000 annual base salary
- 100 core benefits coverage on select plans
- Free Access to an Employee Assistance Program offering a variety of services includingcounseling and legal aid
- Participation in CalSTRS Retirement System
- 10 PTO days (accrued) per calendar year plus school holidays and breaks
- 7 Sick days (accrued) per calendar year
TO APPLY
Interested candidates should apply at Deadline: March 21 2025
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with priority given to those submitted by March 21. The selection process includes a Zoom screening interview a performance task and a semifinalist panel interview. Finalists will be invited to a fullday inperson interview at one of our campuses in late April/early May.
Yu Ming Charter School is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity at all levels.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
