Uplift Ascend Preparatory: Secondary Head of Schools ; Grades 6-12

Uplift Ascend Preparatory:
Secondary Head of Schools 26-27 (Grades 6-12)

• Position Type:
  Administration - Deans, Directors, etc/ Head of Schools
• Date Posted:
  9/25/2026
• Location:
  
  Uplift Ascend Preparatory

Mission Statement:
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.

Primary

Purpose:

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 oversees 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 achieve strong student and family satisfaction, as measured in periodic student and family surveys
• Facilitating management of discipline systems and the implementation of the well-being curriculum to maintain safe and positive school culture
• Analyzing student discipline incidents and rates to adjust intervention strategies.
• Understanding and…