Assistant Principal; Pool

REPORTS TO
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School Principal

We are driven by our values
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Inclusive, Learners, Connected, Interdependent. We are committed to equity and inclusion for our students, families, and staff. We proactively disrupt predictable patterns of opportunity, power, privilege, and performance. We are learners. We support each other to develop and grow so that we can leverage our collective power, intelligence, and passion on behalf of our students. We are committed to being connected.

We continually work to build trusting relationships among students, families, staff, and the Oakland community  are an all-hands-on-deck network driven by empathy. We are interdependent. ??

Our success at every level is dependent on our individual and collective sustainability. To that end, we are transparent, creative, and collaborative problem‑solvers.

Come to EFC if you want to help support schools that are striving to redefine what’s possible in Oakland education. We are obsessed with getting better and are working to create schools that support ALL students’ academic success as well as their social‑emotional learning, identity development, agency as learners, enrichment, and sense of joy. So, come to EFC if equity, reflection, challenge, relationships, and growth feed your soul!

We are seeking an exceptional leader who will help lead our school to continued success in the future. They will help ensure that we keep the sacred promises we make to our students and families to disrupt the predictable patterns of opportunity, power, privilege, and performance. Under the direction of the school principal the assistant principal will collaborate with students, staff, families and community members to implement the school’s instructional vision.

The Assistant Principal will facilitate and engage in a variety of instructional, socio‑emotional, and operational duties to ensure students thrive academically and socio‑emotionally; and ensure staff feel supported, developed and thrive in their roles.

• Ensure student success by supporting school staff to engage in an assets‑based approach to learning. You will facilitate staff engagement, analysis, and action steps around student academic, behavioral and socio‑emotional data.
• Ensure staff success by taking an assets‑based approach to adult learning. This includes designing and facilitating professional learning; tailoring coaching to staff learning styles; and supporting the internalization of content and planning.
• Support staff by engaging in difficult but necessary conversations and actionable feedback that improve their performance and support students to thrive. This includes observation, feedback, coaching and evaluation.
• Collaborate with instructional leaders across the organization to ensure we are making good on our promise to interrupt predictable patterns of opportunity, power and privilege across Fruitvale and East Oakland.

• Support the development and implementation of equity‑driven practices, policies and procedures at your school site. Model equity‑driven leadership and ensure staff develop as anti‑racist, culturally competent educators.
• Embody and model the EFC values and set expectations and support systems for staff to embody and live these values also.
• Actively work to attract, recruit and select high performing, diverse staff that embody the EFC values and are committed to ensuring our students thrive.
• Develop and implement strategies to attract and retain diverse students and families at the school site.
• Hold self and others accountable to behaviors, communication, and practices that are aligned to EFC values and equity work.

• Collaborate, teach, and learn with parents and community members in service of student and community success.
• Communicate and listen to families and community members and act or respond with respect, care and empathy.

• Foster and maintain a positive working relationship with members of EFC across the organization.
• Share resources and learn from the larger EFC community.

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