Area Superintendent

Campus Description

To support, develop, challenge, and grow principal leadership for world‑class student experiences through coaching, professional learning, collaboration, and supervision.

• Creative Visionary who is passionately focused on effecting change and has the ability to merge data and fact with intuition, imagination, and innovation in an effort to realize the possibilities rather than be content with the probabilities.
• Dedicated Professional who creates a supportive environment by modeling and expecting autonomy and accountability; who exemplifies ethics; who accepts and values the differences of others, exhibits empathy, and who has a sense of human wisdom, courage and compassion.
• Inspiring Catalyst who motivates and empowers others to become leaders and risk takers, and who acknowledges expertise, celebrates successes, and honors the lives of others.
• Life‑long Learner who perpetuates self‑motivated learning, and effectively drives transformation with continuous monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting.

• Coach principals to improve student learning experiences through instructional practice and programmatic offerings.
• Provide coaching, professional learning, and support for principals in Instructional Leadership, Inter‑relational Leadership, Executive Leadership, Cultural Leadership, and Transformational Leadership.
• Ensure principals lead change in an effective and supportive manner through professional learning, coaching, and support.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data, stakeholder feedback, and observations to develop capacity in principals to meet the learning needs of each student.
• Apply an equity lens and demonstrate cultural competency in all facets of the role as an executive leader in the district.
• Assess, gather, and use evidence to support principal development.
• Work as a team with Area Superintendents and the Executive Director of Student Support to effectively support principals’ leadership.
• Collaborate with Teaching and Learning staff to help principals ensure the implementation of the written, taught, and assessed curriculum.
• Facilitate support for principals with other departments to effectively, efficiently, and productively lead schools.
• Develop an understanding of campus data and provide the necessary support to campus principals to ensure data is collected, analyzed, and used to inform campus improvement.
• Coach principals in establishing goals and actions to ensure campus improvement.
• Support the development and implementation of principal professional learning plans.
• Ensure principals understand the district’s expectations for instructional leadership.
• Facilitate the development of a strong pipeline of future school leaders.
• Invest in personal and team professional learning to develop leadership practices and skills as a principal coach and executive leader.
• Align district and campus planning for improvement.
• Develop and implement professional learning aligned to district goals for principals and assistant principals.
• Support communication and collaboration between and among campuses, parents, district departments, and other customers.
• Manage department resource allocation to effectively support campus and district goals.
• Demonstrate regular and prompt attendance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Supervise and evaluate the performance of campus principals.

• Master’s degree in education or related field.
• Mid‑management or principal certification preferred.
• Progressively responsible experience in strategic public education programs.
• Experience as a campus principal.
• Supervisory experience required.

• Knowledge of curriculum and instruction; effective leadership strategies; district policies; acceptable human resource/supervisory practices and principles; systems thinking; continuous improvement philosophy; and effective coaching models and tools.
• Skills in self‑direction; strong organization; coordinating multiple tasks; communication, public and interpersonal relations; and making oral and written presentations.
• Ability to evaluate instructional programs; manage budget and personnel; implement policies and procedures; manage multiple priorities and projects; use computer and application software.