Middle School Assistant Principal

The Hudson School District is seeking an experienced or emerging educational leader as Assistant Principal to work collaboratively with an experienced leadership team dedicated to improving student and staff learning. This educator needs a strong commitment and knowledge of middle school philosophy along with experience and skills to work with staff, students, and parents.

Administrative strengths we seek:

• Strong work ethic and passion to seek and implement best practices.
• Ability to focus staff and school efforts on continual improvement of student learning.
• Strong knowledge of effective, evidence-based instructional strategies.
• Ability to design and implement effective high-quality professional development.
• Ability to use data to set measurable goals to improve student learning.
• Ability to develop teacher leaders and a collaborative team environment with a common purpose.
• Knowledge of student development and effective strategies to handle student issues and discipline.
• Effective interpersonal, communication, facilitation, motivational, managerial, and community-building skills.

The Assistant Principal will join a strong team of administrators who lead and learn collaboratively with the goal of improving teaching and learning at their respective schools and throughout the District. The leadership team share ideas and expertise, solve problems as a team, train together, divide work tasks and responsibilities, and support each other. We are seeking an assistant principal who can learn, partner with colleagues, and contribute to both Secondary and District leadership teams.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

This work regularly requires sitting, standing, walking, speaking, hearing and occasionally requires pushing, pulling, lifting, and operating machines; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound;

work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, and observing general surroundings and activities; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. school offices/classrooms/passageways).