School Leader [UP Academy Dorchester] (SY25-26)
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About UP Education Network
UP Education Network is a non-profit school success organization that addresses inequities in public school systems. UP provides differentiated support to historically under resourced schools through a partnership with districts and the state.
Since opening its doors in 2010 UP Education Network has focused on taking the lowest-performing schools in Massachusetts and transforming those schools into exceptional learning environments. We manage two campuses in Dorchester serving over 1300 students in Boston Public Schools (BPS) from grades pre-K through 8th. Our schools operate with charter-like autonomy while our network provides comprehensive support and management that builds capacity for schools to focus deeply on students.
Role
The Principal will serve as an UP Academys instructional leader. The school leader will co-lead
the School Leadership Team with the Director of Operations and will oversee the implementation of the academic model throughout the school. The Principal with directly manage the Deans of Curriculum and Instruction and the Deans of Students. The Principal will work closely with members of the UP Education Network Team and be managed by a member of the Academic Team.
Specific Responsibilities
- Provide exemplary leadership to all members of the schools community to achieve outstanding performance
- Dramatically improve student achievement by leading the educational program
- Manage faculty and staff effectively holding staff accountable for meeting high standards forstudent academic and behavioral performance
- Foster commitment among faculty and staff members to the development and fulfillment ofthe schools mission and objectives
- Establish and ensure a joyful structured achievement-oriented school culture
- Maintain communication and relations with families ensuring families are kept involved withand held accountable for their childrens academic and behavioral performance
- Oversee students academic and behavioral program including disciplinary decisionsscheduling and class decisions educational program and assessment and accountability
- Work with Director of Operations to lead the schools administrative program
- Build an effective efficient action-oriented and highly accountable data analysis and actionplanning process that ensures individual student and whole-class deficiencies are overcome after each interim assessment cycle
- Create a highly systematic and wide-ranging network of school-level supports designed tocatch students who are struggling to excel in their new school environment and act as a safety net to ensure students do not fall behind.
- Recruit interview hire evaluate develop retain and when necessary dismiss staff
Qualifications
- A strong belief in UP Education Networks core values: Teamwork Integrity Growth Engagement and Resilience
- Bachelors degree is required Masters degree is preferred
- A valid Massachusetts Principal/Assistant Principal License for the appropriate grade level
- Current authorization to work in the United States A candidate must have such authorizationby his or her first day of employment
Compensation and Benefits
Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academys host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school
district you will receive the same access to personal and sick days health insurance and dental insurance as others within your union.
Working at UP Education Network
We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our students. At UP your
career is shaped by:
- Opportunities for immediate impact: UP offers a chance to bring best practices found inhigh-performing schools to students previously enrolled in struggling schools and to rapidly unlock the potential of these students
- Talented mission-driven colleagues: Our staff is enthusiastic dedicated and willing to do whatever it takes to put every student on the path to college
- Collaboration and teamwork: Staff members collaborate and work closely together ongrade-level or content area teams using data to track student performance as well asguide instructional practice
- Consistent professional growth and development: Members of our staff typically have bi-weekly check-in meetings with their managers where they receive targeted coaching and support and the entire staff participates in weekly professional development sessions during the school year kick-started by extensive training in July/August.
To Apply:
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Key Skills
- Experience Working With Students
- Organizational skills
- Classroom Management
- Behavioral Health
- Classroom Experience
- Mediation Experience
- Special Education
- Conflict Management
- Teaching
- Experience with Children
- Public Speaking
- Word Processing
About Company
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