SY2627 Lower School Principal

General Description: Under the supervision of the Head of School the Lower School Principal oversees the day to day operations of all students and staff in grades K1-2nd. The Lower School Principal supervises evaluates and directs all instructional and support staff. The Lower School Principal collaborates in decision making as part of the Academic and Instructional Leadership teams. The Lower School Principal is an integral part of planning improvements that directly address BRCPS objectives in the following areas: student achievement teaching and learning family and staff communication. The Lower School Principal will operate as part of the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School leadership team. The Lower School Principal is an instructional leader as department based manager and as builder of school culture.Who are we looking for Boston Renaissance Charter Public School is looking for a seasoned leader in education that is passionate about equity furthering student achievement providing safe spaces for students to learn and grow. We are looking for someone that embraces and celebrates the racial cultural and linguistic diversity of our students and has a strong commitment to our students families and the BRCPS community. We are looking for someone who is culturally instructionally and operationally proficient and are able to utilize and develop these competencies to best serve all students and staff in their buildings. Responsibilities: Creates and maintains a clear focus on achieving sustainable success for every student providing access to equitable opportunities and building a sustainable inclusive and culturally responsive school culture and consistent reliable and clear communications and engagement opportunities with multiple stakeholders to reinforce the why behind the vision of the Lower and advocates for the adoption and implementation of high quality culturally responsive and standards aligned instructional the development of professional learning that is timely and relevant and equips teachers to effectively provide culturally responsive and linguistically sustaining instruction. Monitors and ensures high quality culturally responsive instructional practices among teachers and staff to advance learning for every student. Ensures instruction is contextualized in students lives promotes academic discourse develops students critical consciousness and enables students to demonstrate learning in a variety of and coach educators to provide culturally sustaining instruction that incorporates research-based best collaboratively with the Chief Academic Office and Data & Assessment Coordinators to examine and use disaggregated data to support calls for change in practice or instructional approach paying close attention to inequities and gaps for historically marginalized all student cultures and native languages and engages and leads others in creating opportunities for the full community to celebrate and learn from them through linguistic and culture-sustaining authentic relationships with students families and communities to enable learning partnerships. Supports educators in establishing genuine partnership with families intentionally learning from families and encouraging family involvement in classrooms and school. Ensures proactive and positive outreach to families and partners so that they may engage meaningfully with school in traditional and non-traditional practices that yield and retain staff that have an asset-based mindset and fervent belief in the students and families served by the the growth of individuals through ongoing actionable feedback and evaluation; creates and empowers educators to seek out stretch opportunities; and coaches and mentors teachers to achieve the school mission and grow as and supports others to provide real-time personalized actionable feedback and opportunities so staff can celebrate their wins and identify areas where they need to improve. Hold staff members accountable to changes in their practice to best serve the principles of culturally responsive social and emotional learning through daily interactions with staff and students; coaches staff to do the same to provide students with the social and emotional support they and supports the development of inclusive efforts to celebrate student culture and in the provision of instructional leadership that advances proven teaching and learning practices;Provides ongoing feedback to the Assistant Principal to ensure consistency and continuity of purpose for the Lower School;Collaborates with Chief Academic Officer Assistant Principal Curriculum Coordinators and Coaches to design professional development for staff to continuously improve instruction in all Lower School classrooms;Collaborates with Chief Academic Officer Assistant Principal Curriculum Coordinators and Coaches to set standards for school achievement and ensure that continuous improvement in all Lower School classrooms is guided by academic standards school wide instructional priorities and concrete data from a variety of assessments;Attends leadership team meetings: ILT AT and others as requested by the Head of School;Follows school protocol for documenting communicating and reporting ongoing student attendance concerns;Works in cooperation with Family Engagement Community Partnerships & Homeless Liaison to assist families in need of support;Facilitates parent meetings to address concerns and work to resolution of issues;Works collaboratively with Upper School Principal Student Services Director Chief Academic Officer and Director of Visual and Performing Arts to create an Academic Schedule and Specialty Schedule to ensure accurate programmatic implementation;Ensures all appropriate steps are taken to comply with state and federal regulations;Works cooperatively to make budgetary recommendations for the Lower School as part of the preparation of the preliminary budget for the school;Prepares required reports and maintaining complete and accurate records for the Lower School;Responds to and collaborates with appropriate teams to resolve situations arising throughout the day that pertain to staff students and/or broader school operations;Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Minimum:Masters in Education or similar Principal License or proof of successful completion of : The Lower School Principal must have 5-7 years of teaching experience along with 5-7 years leadership/supervisory experience. Term: Academic Administrative Work Year (School year plus 15 days)