Secondary Head of Schools; Grades 6-12 Pool

Uplift

Education:

Secondary Head of Schools (Grades 6-12) Pool (26-27)

• Position Type:
  Administration - Deans, Directors, etc/ Head of Schools
• Date Posted: 3/4/2026

Uplift's mission is to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower each student to reach their highest potential in college and the global marketplace and that inspire in students a life‑long love of learning, achievement, and service in order to positively change their world.

Secondary Heads of Schools at Uplift Education are globally minded, compassionate leaders who navigate complex challenges with care, consistency, and healthy urgency. Through self‑reflection, strategy, and collaboration they build positive, inclusive learning communities that achieve incredible results. Secondary Heads of Schools oversee a team of campus leaders and teachers who share in the responsibility of ensuring that all Uplift scholars have the academic and social experiences that set them up for a college and career success.

• Recruiting, selecting, and engaging a diverse, committed team of teachers and noninstructional team members
• Recruiting, registering, and engaging students and their families to ensure full enrollment of the school
• Working with diverse groups of stakeholders to expand community partnerships
• Developing campus specific systems for executing the Uplift Education Secondary School Model

• Managing effective school leadership team members and other team leaders on campus, utilizing individual management plans to track growth in performance
• Developing Campus Strategic Goals that address most pressing growth areas for the school and manage staff buy‑in and periodic check‑in on goal progress
• Implementing school leadership team structure and master calendar to most effectively reach Campus Strategic Goals and academic outcomes
• Utilizing effective communication structures for teams and school community (staff, scholars, and parents)
• Developing leadership "bench" to ensure solid succession plan for school leadership
• Understanding and overseeing immediate and long‑term strategy with respect to relationships and sustainability (i.e. community development, parent engagement, budget management)

• Provide instructional leadership through both coaching teacher and coaching teacher coaches
• Managing progress towards increased student achievement, analyze grades and assessment results to facilitate timely academic interventions
• Driving intervention systems to meet system expectations for growth and objective achievement on STAAR, MAP, DP, and ACT/TSIA assessments
• Managing progress on RTI and academic student interventions
• Managing a high performing leadership team that leads to your campus meeting its student achievement goals of producing college‑ready scholars

• Monitoring student attendance, focusing on maintaining desired attendance levels and recruitment
• Facilitating student persistence (6th-12th grade) analysis, focusing on intervention strategies and increasing persistence for all students and sub‑populations (at‑risk, SPED, EB)
• Achieving student culture goals on a yearly basis

• Facilitating hiring process and select high‑caliber, diverse teachers and staff
• Managing high‑quality PD that leads to well‑developed staff, as measured by staff survey and student achievement results
• Developing instructional goals for the year with the leadership team and facilitate periodic goal analysis throughout the year
• Managing appropriate progress on instructional observations and continuum process, from initial placement to end‑of‑year placement
• Maintaining high retention rates of staff, avoiding regrettable teacher and staff attrition
• Managing effective school leadership team members and other team leaders on campus, utilizing individual management plans to track growth in performance

• Maintaining strong school culture that meets high Uplift Educations Code of Character standards
• Evaluating and achieving strong student and family satisfaction, as…