Principal, Education Administration

Overview

Job Description

Hamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County.

Learn more about working for Hamilton County Schools e.org and get to know us and our strategic plan, Opportunity 2030.

The purpose of this job is to provide effective instructional leadership and school operations. Major responsibilities include instructional leadership, people centered management, organizational management, student development, facility maintenance and management, fiscal management activities, and developing effective community relations.

• Collaboratively creates and communicates a clear, compelling vision of high academic achievement and growth
• Establish a clear focus and inspire others by gaining buy-in and commitment
• Serve as a change agent by actively challenging the status quo to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps
• Inspire and lead new and challenging innovations for high achievement and growth

• Build and maintain high expectations for continuous student growth and academic achievement with supportive accountability systems
• Sustain a data-driven vision by setting challenging goals with appropriate, relevant milestones for progress monitoring
• Conduct classroom observations, identify effective instructional planning and delivery instruction and provide actionable feedback that results in improved student learning
• Build capacity of educators to provide all students a rigorous standards-based curriculum that is culturally responsive
• Ensure students master grade-level standards by aligning curriculum, instruction and assessments
• Build systems for professional learning communities and high quality common planning

• Provides clear expectations for staff performance and communicates success and needed improvements regularly.
• Create structures that systematically gather input and empower teachers as decision makers
• Implement and monitor a rigorous evaluation system and use educator evaluation data to inform, assess, and adjust differentiated professional learning plans, performance improvement plans and goals
• Maintain a robust talent management system that displays effective recruitment, interview, and selection skills that lead to quality hiring decisions
• Develop structures for mentoring used to induct, support, retain, grow and extend effective educators based on evidence of student and educator outcomes
• Empower teachers to use their collective strengths, skills and experiences to own and lead teams, trainings and innovative initiatives

• Include a diverse set of educators and stakeholders in school improvement planning and decision-making
• Develop structures to actively involve families in the education of their children targeting academically focused engagement
• Strategically utilize, align, and measure community resources and partners to equitably support the school’s mission, vision, and goals
• Ensure that the school community communicates regularly with families regarding student progress and needs
• Partner with community allies to provide whole-child supports

• Foster a safe, orderly, culturally responsive and equitable learning environment for all stakeholders
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders
• Resolve conflict positively and directly
• Embrace diverse points of view and foster an environment that is comfortable with dissent
• Develop structures to actively engage student, staff, parent, and community voice with a keen awareness to the voices that are often overlooked
• Reflect regularly, accurately assesses personal strengths and growth areas, and seek feedback and professional development to improve

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