Principal Mentor - (Effective 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR)
Principal Mentor - (Effective 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR)
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Job Description
SUMMARY
A Tucson Unified Principal Mentor serves as a mentor and coach to Principals and other administrators to help improve student academic achievement. The principal Mentor is responsible for the individual support to identified principals. This position coordinates and facilitates interventions and professional learning experiences to guide the growth and development of selected principals serving one or more school locations. The principal Mentor will work closely with the Regional Assistant Superintendent and Professional Development Team to ensure that support for identified TUSD Principals is aligned and consistent.
The Principal Mentor provides guidance assistance and professional growth opportunities to school administrators including training and mentoring in the use of Professional Standards for Educational Leaders. The Principal Mentors build fundamental functional leadership in all school site leadership areas (Instructional Students Support Services Operations and Campus Management Professional Development and Customer Service). The Mentor shares best practices to improve student social and emotional learning and achievement while maintaining a safe caring and orderly learning environment.
**This is a part-time position 20 hours per week and is for one School Year only.**
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Valid Arizona IVP Fingerprint Card
School Principal Certification as defined by the Arizona Department of Education.
A minimum of five (5) years of related professional experience as a Principal with Tucson Unified School District.
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
Education Specialist or Doctorate
Experience mentoring training and enhancing leadership development.
Sound knowledge of Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
Knowledge of evidence-based school structures including Multi-Tier Support Systems Professional Learning Communities PBIS data-driven instruction observation and feedback intentional planning shared leadership effective communication strategies and Social Emotional Learning.
DEMONSTRATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Experience in the alignment of curriculum instruction and assessment.
Expertise in training in the areas of motivation struggling students cooperative learning technology School Software programs AZMerit data
Expertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state assessments require of students knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; demonstrated ability to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies.
Command of instructional design and the benefits and tradeoffs of school design decisions in driving student achievement.
Understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of high-leverage instructional strategies (e.g. pacing checks for understanding students doing the heavy lifting etc.) based on comprehension of child development and pedagogy.
Investment in and understanding of the appropriate application of social-emotional strategies to promote the development of the whole child.
Ability to develop facilitate and ensure positive outcomes for teacher teams and professional learning communities.
Ability to set direction across an entire school and invest and motivate others to action. to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives.
Ability to use a variety of strategies to invest and influence team and community members.
COMMENTS
Effective: 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR
LOCATION: Leadership & Student Success
FTE:0.5 -20hours per week
Work Calendar: 10.5 months
This is an Interim 4 hours per day 10.5 month Classified Exempt position.
Classification is Certified Admin.
Category: Leased Record Type: Supplemental.
This position is for one year only (Effective 2025-2026 School Year)
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Tucson Unified School District is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination based on disability race color religion/religious beliefs sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age or national origin.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
