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About Cps

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) serves over 35,000 students preschool to 12th grade in over 65 schools across a 90-square-mile district in Southwest Ohio. As the second largest district in the state, CPS is proud to continually be one of the highest-performing large urban districts in the state and offers families high-quality school choices, diverse academic programs, and community learning centers.

The district's innovative approach to education, its investment in effective and caring educators and employees, and a vast array of community partnerships have accelerated school performance - ensuring that students in preschool to 12th grade thrive and graduate prepared for successful lives in the 21st century.

Cincinnati Public is looking for creative, innovative, passionate, problem-solvers to join our team. We seek to have a positive impact on our children and families every day and are looking for staff members who want to not only do an excellent job with their career field but also serve as a role model for the children in CPS. We invite you to become a member of our CPS work family.

Principal

Job Description

General Responsibilities

Principals at CPS create the structures that support teacher development and working conditions to help them successfully shape students' experiences in the classroom.

They are community-centered leaders that foster partnerships aligned with a school’s vision and needs. CPS principals are responsible for leadership, coordination, supervision and management of the school program, curriculum, community partnerships and operation.

Knowledge,

Skills And Abilities

Applicants should possess a thorough knowledge of the four domains of the Ohio Standards for Principals with knowledge, skills and abilities focused on:

• Student Learning and Achievement
• Shared Leadership
• Data-based decision-making
• Communication and collaboration
• Ongoing professional learning
• Well-being
• Technology
• Equity and cultural responsiveness.
• ESL teaching and programming
• Knowledge of teaching methods, curriculum, and education programs designed for students with disabilities

• Effectively developing, advocating and enacting a shared mission, vision and core values.
• Developing building-level priorities in the context of community and District priorities and student/staff needs.
• Implementing collaborative structures and shared leadership that analyzes data to develop School Improvement which contain strategies to improve teaching and student learning outcomes.
• Collaborating with district administrators, academic managers and external support regarding the school programming.
• Displaying success in leading the improvement of student learning, as evidenced by the improvement of school-based and/or District-based data points.
• Exercising good judgment, insight, self-awareness, integrity, and cultural responsiveness when interacting with diverse employees, students, and stakeholders.
• Facilitating the change process and its relationship to current trends in education.
• Maintaining and modeling high standards of professionalism and ethics.

• Supervising and evaluating the implementation of instructional programming.
• Training of staff with regard to the most effective practices which lead to higher student achievement regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or prior academic achievement.
• Assisting in the development, ongoing improvement, and implementation of the District and school curricular program.
• Demonstrating expertise in curriculum and instruction at the position’s grade level.
• Fostering an environment of effective and rigorous personalized instruction by ensuring each student has equitable access to effective…