Assistant Principal - Elementary School

Assistant Principal – Elementary School

Osseo Ind School District 279 Birch Grove Elementary – Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

To inspire and prepare all students with confidence, courage, and competence to achieve their dreams; contribute to community; and engage in a lifetime of learning by planning and directing the instructional programming and managing the operational and personnel requirements of Birch Grove Elementary School under the direction of the lead principal.

Birch Grove School for the Arts is an award‑winning arts magnet elementary school located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, serving approximately 450 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade. Through intentional arts integration, students receive expanded instruction in visual art, music, drama and movement while meeting Minnesota academic standards.

• Articulates a vision and develops implementation strategies for change that results in measurable achievement gains for all students and closes the achievement gap.
• Fosters a shared commitment to high expectations for student achievement, high standards of teaching and learning, and a culturally competent environment where diversity is valued.
• Builds a strong and positive sense of community in the school by honoring the important roles of race and culture, its traditions, artifacts, symbols, values, and norms.

• Provides structure and opportunity for the development, alignment, implementation, and evaluation of relevant and rigorous curricula tied to state academic and college and career readiness standards.
• Collaborates with teachers to examine student and school data to measure student learning and growth, identify achievement gaps, and develop strategic interventions that improve learning and close identified gaps.
• Facilitates reflective practice, inquiry, and action research to identify and monitor the impact of interventions and determine high‑yield instructional strategies that improve student learning.

• Provides timely, appropriate, quality professional development and facilitates learning teams that gather information, analyze data, examine issues, and develop new approaches to improve teaching and learning.
• Routinely observes instruction and provides ongoing feedback and coaching to teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner to support professional growth.
• Provides effective and timely supervision and evaluation aligned with local district goals, state regulations, and contract provisions and uses these processes to facilitate development, remediation, and/or removal of underperforming staff members.

• Models appropriate personal, professional, and ethical behavior that is respectful and fair, enhances the image of the school and the profession, and inspires others to higher levels of leadership and performance.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and facilitates groups effectively.
• Welcomes and honors families and stakeholders by engaging them in a meaningful dialogue regarding student learning, the work of the school, and its needs and accomplishments.

• Distributes leadership responsibilities, shares decision making, and supervises daily ongoing management structures and practices to enhance teaching and learning.
• Maintains a safe environment by addressing real and potential challenges to the physical and emotional safety and security of students and staff that interfere with teaching and learning.
• Develops and implements a budget process that manages fiscal expenditures consistent with district and school goals, policies, and available resources that is focused on results in improved student achievement.
• Performs other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.

• Performs other comparable duties of a like or similar nature as assigned.

• Must hold or be eligible for a license as a K-12 or Elementary School Principal in the State of Minnesota.

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