Interim Assistant Principal

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Site Principal Position Summary

Education for Change is looking for dynamic and visionary instructional leaders who will engage students, staff, and families to ensure high student achievement. The assistant principal collaborates closely with the principal in communicating and supporting the mission of Education for Change, maintaining the focus on high student achievement for all students, creating a collaborative, results-oriented professional learning community, analyzing and responding to data, supporting teachers in their growth, and evaluating and responding to the effectiveness of interventions and instructional practices.

S/he engages community partners and families in serving the whole child and ensuring ALL children achieve at high levels prepared to succeed in any setting. S/he will know how to successfully work in an urban elementary school with a high English Learner and low-income population.

Founded in 2005, Education for Change (EFC) is a charter management organization that was created as a partnership between Oakland Unified School District and the education reform community in order to leverage the flexibilities in charter law to facilitate greater innovation and to address the underperformance of our most vulnerable student populations. EFC is Oakland's largest charter operator, serving over 3,000 students in the Fruitvale and Elmhurst neighborhoods of East Oakland.

Five of seven of our schools were formerly OUSD schools that converted to EFC to leverage the flexibility and agility provided by charter law for greater outcomes for our students.

• Establish and maintain an instruction- and results-oriented professional learning community
• Analyze performance and observational data to determine professional development needs, including content and pedagogical knowledge, grade level needs, teacher coaching and support
• Monitor student performance data and effectiveness of instructional responses and interventions
• Provide concrete and actionable feedback for teachers to drive instructional improvement
• Maintain and support the focus on high student achievement for all students through the Education for Change instructional program
• Work collaboratively with the Instructional Management team to identify professional development needs, develop and lead professional development
• Communicate a sense of urgency around student academic needs
• Utilize research-based content and pedagogical knowledge in core areas including the reading and writing process, mathematics instruction, educational theory, research and current issues in urban education

• Attract, recruit and select high performing staff members
• Evaluate personnel in an effective, timely manner
• Create support systems for staff improvement
• Motivate staff to excel
• Create a culture where the staff works as a dedicated professional team
• Hold staff accountable for high-quality job performance
• Involve staff in decision making appropriate to the situation including school site planning, committees, etc.

• Participate in school site planning and implementation processes; ensure the site budget and the site plan are strategically developed to maximize human, financial, time, and programmatic resources to achieve optimal results
• Follow all established EFC policies and procedures
• Develop systems, timelines, and milestones for completion of initiatives
• Work collaboratively with the Business Operations Manager to ensure that the school site is safe, clean and well maintained
• Develop, lead and manage systems for efficient and efficacious daily operations
• Ensure there is an effective, regular communication system with all staff

• Skillfully and appropriately involve parents and the community in school activities
• Maintain good community relations and effective, regular communication with parents
• Foster and maintain positive working relationship with co-located EFC school and neighboring district schools
• Develop and execute strategy to attract and retain students and families at school site, with the goal of full enrollment with a waiting list
• Function as a collaborative team member
• Effectively collaborate with community partners and leverage community resources for organizational success
• Actively participate in key student events
• The assistant principal performs other related duties as assigned

• Minimum of 3 years teaching experience
• Knowledge of curriculum and administrative practices
• Must possess a growth mindset and be able to use feedback to refine practice3
• Successful experience working in a collaborative environment
• Experience working with diverse communities

• Experience as a teacher leader, instructional coach, or site leader
• Spanish bilingual
• Master’s degree
• Knowledge of the Common Core standards and instructional practices aligned to those standards
• Experience…