Principal of LincolnKing High School

WHO WE ARE

Cornerstone Education Group is a non‑profit organization that manages the Cornerstone Charter School network in Detroit, serving the community for nearly 30 years. Our Mission is to prepare our students to live a Complete Life through an excellent education, a foundation of strong character, meaningful relationships, and real‑world experiences for career and/or college. We need further to encourage our broad and beloved Cornerstone community to live the Complete Life as well.

We seek to hire top talent to help us fulfill this great mission.

Our faculty, staff, parents and students are all part of the Cornerstone family. We work hard together to help each other succeed. If you want to work alongside a group of people who are passionate about what they do, the city in which they do it, and the families they serve, then Cornerstone is the right place for you.

TITLE: Principal

FLSA STATUS :
Exempt

REPORTS TO: President

• Lead through the leveraging of the district systems and routines, while maintaining a drive for results by demonstrating persistence, directness, and the ability to monitor and plan ahead
• Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behavior
• Cast a vision of and monitors for instruction and strategies that address the wide range of learning, behavioral, and communication styles of the student population
• Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of the system visions for high quality, subject specific instruction and the capacity to coach teachers for growth in instructional routines
• Administer a system of ongoing data collection and analysis, through collaborative routines, to inform a continuously responsive and adaptive system of tiered instruction
• Create an environment that includes role modeling to ensure students, staff, parents/guardians understand the Academic, Character and Career Pillars and their individual and integrated value
• Leverage and monitor the talent management district system to recruit, hire, assign, evaluate, retain and/or remove the instructional talent required to impact student and teacher performance
• Manage, evaluate and supervise effective and clear procedures for the operation and functioning of the school consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the district including instructional programs, extracurricular activities, discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel management, office operations, and emergency procedures
• Ensure compliance with all laws, board policies and civil regulations
• Establish the annual master schedule for instructional programs, ensuring sequential learning experiences for students consistent with the district’s philosophy, mission statement and instructional goals
• Supervise the instructional programs of the school, evaluating lesson plans and observing classes on a regular basis to encourage the use of a variety of instructional strategies and materials consistent with research on learning and child growth and development
• Supervise in a fair and consistent manner effective discipline and attendance systems with high standards, consistent with the philosophy, values, and mission of the system
• Ensure a safe and orderly environment by following proper safety, security, and supervision protocols and expectations
• Support programming and processes that encourages students to take responsibility for behavior and helps students to develop character that models Cornerstone’s core values
• Create high morale among staff and students
• File all required reports regarding violence, vandalism, attendance and discipline matters
• Establish professional and respectful rapport with students and staff
• Display the highest ethical and professional behavior and standards when working with students, parents and school personnel. Serve as a role model for students, dressing professionally, demonstrating the importance and relevance of learning, accepting responsibility, and demonstrating pride in the education profession. Encourage all teachers to do the same
• Maintain…