Principal - Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center

Principal

Are you passionate about helping all students learn in a collaborative environment? If so, we may have the career for you! Downingtown Area School District is excited to announce an opening for a Principal at Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center. At DASD, we are committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion in order to achieve and sustain excellence in education.

As a diverse district, we continually seek ways to strengthen our educational environment. We believe that we can best promote excellence by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of staff who bring various backgrounds and perspectives. Our ability to create and maintain a climate of respect is critical to attaining the best teaching and learning environment. At Downingtown Area School District we value our employees.

We seek to hire new staff who:

• Communicate openly to build relationships and trust
• Partner with team members to see the team succeed
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and seek ongoing opportunities for growth
• Embrace and support a safe and inclusive environment
• Eagerly and enthusiastically support student learning
• Strive to be kind and reflective
• Focus on the solution and put people first
• Lead by example!

If you want to be part of our "Downingtown Proud" team - please apply! Help us with our mission to educate all students to meet the rigorous challenges of a global society.

Job Summary:

Provides supervision, direction, resources, and staff development, as needed, to meet the needs of staff, support personnel, and students. Serves as an instructional leader and guides teachers through a much-needed period of reform. Maximizes student learning through the delivery of effective teaching programs.

Qualifications:

To successfully perform this position, a person must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. The qualification requirements listed below represent minimum levels of educational achievement, training, skills and/or ability necessary. Candidate must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and hold a proper Pennsylvania administrative certification for the position. Master's degree required. Five (5) years of successful experience in public education as a teacher or administrator necessary, including elementary or secondary school instruction.

Prior assistant principal or supervisory experience is helpful. Knowledge of best practices in curriculum integration, instruction, professional development, public relations, and admissions preferred. Decision making skills are significant to the job, affecting a large segment of the organization, students, teachers, and parents. Candidate must possess good moral character and demonstrate leadership qualities and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with pupils, teachers, and parents.

Candidate should be skilled in the use of current technologies, word processing, data base, IEP software, office equipment, and presentation software. Must have and maintain a valid state vehicle operator's license and a good driving record. Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements. Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Employee must have the ability to perform the following essential functions on a timely basis with or without reasonable accommodations. This position description does not express or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent(s) in this position. Employee(s) will be required to complete other job-related duties requested by the supervisor.

• Provides leadership in building a school culture that deals with and responds to change.
• Observes, evaluates, and supervises all personnel assigned to the building.
• Provides key leadership in establishing the vision and mission of the school and formulating strategic plans to support school goals with students, staff and community.
• Provides strong instructional leadership for the development and implementation of a well-balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all students, increases in student achievement, and ensures student health, welfare, and safety.
• Ensures pupil performance through curriculum implementation expectations by state and local standards and ensures appropriate student behaviors through appropriate procedures, rules and consequences.
• Develops a plan that will meet the growing technology needs of the building.
• Assumes responsibility for the implementation of students IEP's, serves as the LEA for special education programs and gifted education programs, and sits in on all support meetings that may require attention.
• Initiates and responds to parent communications via e-mails, phone calls, and requests for meetings.
• Develops and maintains a fiscally responsive budget, providing for the purchase and distribution of necessary supplies, materials, textbooks, and equipment for instruction.
• Attends district meetings…