Assistant Principal, Raceland Upper Elementary School

Qualifications

• Type A or B/ Level 2 or 3 Teaching Certificate
• Certification-Supervisor of Instruction or Educational Leader or Letter of Eligibility
• Master's Degree
• Five Years of Teaching Experience
• Additional criteria as the board may require
• Minimum requirements as stated in SDE Bulletin 746 (as revised)
• qualifications should not be established for the individual, but rather for the position.

Principal

School personnel and students

Exempt

See Lafourche Parish School Board Salary Schedule

A. Sets ambitious data-driven goals and a vision for achievement; invests teachers, students, and other stakeholders in that vision

• Uses vision and analysis of multiple types of data to set goals; keeps the school-wide goals present for staff and various stakeholders by referencing them in all meetings and planning sessions.
• Actively engages stakeholders in the school’s vision for achievement; shares specific ways families and stakeholders can support student learning; consistently addresses staff or stakeholders who contradict the vision by displaying low or negative expectations.
• Aligns resources: time, human and, when appropriate, fiscal to create and uphold systems that support the school’s learning goals; develops systems to support schedules and calendars that maximize instructional time and ensures that staff have necessary materials, supplies, and equipment.

A. Facilitates collaboration between teams of teachers

• Facilitates effective and frequent collaboration between teams of teachers that improve implementation of the Common Core Standards; reviews student learning data to improve instruction and student achievement.
• Maintains conditions for collaboration by ensuring teachers have clear expectations for collaborative time and clear incentives to collaborate.

B. Provides opportunities for professional growth and develops a pipeline of teacher leaders

• Improves teacher effectiveness by providing professional opportunities for growth and on-going supports.
• Uses data gathered through observations and student assessments to determine what supports will best meet the needs of each individual teacher to improve overall teacher effectiveness.
• Develops a pipeline of teacher leaders to provide additional support to teachers in the school by identifying mid and high performing teachers and developing their leadership skills and creating opportunities for them to take on additional responsibilities.

C.Creates and upholds systems which result in a safe and orderly school environment

• Ensures learning environment is conducive to learning; implements systems to ensure physical and social-emotional safety is maintained for students and adults.
• Develops clear expectations for student and adult behaviors based on the school values and beliefs; identifies clear positive and negative consequences.
• Develops systems to ensure that every adult understands their role in implementing both positive and negative consequences and those consequences are consistently implemented.
• Supervises facilities and equipment management and maintenance and ensures that the physical environment is safe.

A. Observes teachers and provides feedback on instruction regularly

• Uses the Compass Teacher Rubric to complete or ensure a system is in place to complete formal and informal observations.
• Ensures observations occur multiple times a year with staff getting regular, consistent, and actionable feedback that is: grounded in the Teacher Compass Rubric data, focused on improving teacher effectiveness and student outcomes.
• Ensures that new and/or developing teachers receive additional formative observations.
• Completes a rigorous evaluation process based on a review of teacher practice using the Teacher Compass Rubric and multiple measures of student outcomes.

B. Ensures teachers set clear, measurable objectives aligned to the Common Core

• Sets annual student learning targets and ensures teachers set daily objectives that will support academic growth of students and that align with school level goals.
• Ensures all teachers are…