School Principal - New York, United States - Bostock Education Consulting

Description

Middle School Principal

Who We Are:

School in the Square (S2) is a fast-growing charter school currently serving elementary and middle school students, with plans to serve families from Pre-K - 12 with the opening of a high school with 9th grade in Fall, 2023.

S2 engages, educates and empowers its students to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. Drawing its name from the concept of the public square or "la placita", our mantra is "Relationships First". S2 is where communities come together to solve problems and celebrate successes. Here, students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired.

S2 students build the academic foundations, social-emotional intelligence, and the leadership skills necessary to excel in college and professional life.

Our community is grounded in principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusivity (JEDI), enacting a culturally responsive and sustaining lens to our pedagogical practice and consistently examining the ways we can continue to walk firmly in the pursuit of social justice and against injustice of any kind.

We take seriously our obligation as an anchor institution in our community. We understand that our students' ability to learn is directly impacted by their access to basic needs.

Through our Family Support Program, we support over 200 families every month with bimonthly food pantries and other essential services, including internet hotspots and rent relief.

Our Middle School:

Our middle school is our founding location.

It expands on S2's vision of our dual language elementary school (Dos Amigos) and prepares students for our rigorous high school experience.

All of our schools are culturally responsive, have a rigorous academic program with adequate scaffolding and support for all students to be successful, and have a focus on students developing their voices and sense of agency that they will use to forge their own futures and help their communities.

Student Inquiry is at the heart of the culturally responsive curriculum, in which students will see themselves reflected while serving as well as a window to a wider world.

Our Middle School Principal:

School in the Square Charter School is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and transformative Middle School Principal to bridge our elementary and high school programs.

The Middle School Principal, reporting directly to the Head of Schools, will partner with stakeholders from across our community to bring S2's vision for quality schools to life on a daily basis.

This instrumental leader will be responsible for the performance, management, and operations of the Middle School community under the guidance and leadership of our Executive Director and Head of Schools.

Responsibilities of the Middle School Principal:
The Principal will drive rigorous instruction and create a culture of academic ownership by:

• Ensuring that high quality curriculum and pedagogy is implemented across discipline, content areas and tutorial settings. Ensuring welcoming inclusion of diverse learner populations;
• Overseeing use of daily, weekly and monthly assessment systems throughout the school aligned to state standards and designed to accelerate student outcomes and foster their passion for learning. Working with students, families, and staff to utilize the information to improve learning and teaching;
• Coordinating instructional, assessment, curricular, culture support with the Head of Schools;
• Developing and implementing an effective high school strategy that enlists students, families, and staff in a common effort for student college and career readiness.
• Supporting S2's commitment to fostering strong relationships with students, families, and staff to ensure collective investment in student success.

The Principal will empower and develop teachers and leaders by:

• Ensuring that systems are implemented effectively to develop, support, coach and supervise teachers in a way that builds teacher knowledge, inspires and enlists them, and holds them accountable for student learning;
• Leading, facilitating, and developing midlevel leaders to facilitate robust schoolbased professional development that helps staff master the fundamentals of classroom management, backwarddesign planning relationshipbuilding, communication with students and families, datadriven action planning, and implementation of schoolwide cultural, academic, operational, and extracurricular systems and initiatives; and
• Creating a culture where all staff give and receive feedback fluidly both positive and constructive as part of daily practice.

The Principal will lead the school's continued excellence by:

• Supporting the Executive Director in increasing student enrollment to grow our community
• Ensuring the implementation of effective youth culture systems that build off strengthsbased leadership development research and enlist staff and students to establishing an effectiv