High School Principal; ALE

SUMMARY

The Dishman Hills High School Principal provides leadership aligned with the district’s strategic goals and the school’s personalized, mastery-based, and student-centered model. The principal leads a public alternative high school designed around relationships, relevance, rigor, flexible scheduling, mentoring, project-based learning, and multiple pathways for students to demonstrate mastery.

The principal ensures instructional excellence, effective school operations, strong Professional Learning Communities, and a positive school climate that supports student achievement and well-being. This position includes the school’s multi-district online program and ensures compliance with applicable OSPI online learning and Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) requirements. The principal is responsible for leading the broader DHHS model, including mastery-based learning, mentoring, student support systems, data reporting, technical systems, grants, state collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Lead Dishman Hills High School in alignment with district goals, school improvement priorities, and the school’s mission, vision, and core values.
• Promote a school culture grounded in belonging, self-discovery, personalized learning, perseverance, equity, and high expectations for all students.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with staff to create a culture of belonging, high expectations, and access to learning for all students.
• Promote and sustain a safe, welcoming school environment that supports students’ social, emotional, and academic success.
• Lead and sustain DHHS’s mastery-based learning model, including shared school wide outcomes, outcome targets, common rubrics, multiple evidence opportunities, feedback, revision, reassessment, and mastery-based grading practices.
• Ensure grading and assessment practices reflect current student mastery.
• Support implementation of project-based learning, culturally responsive and sustaining education, student voice and choice, and personalized learning pathways.
• Ensure compliance with Washington State ALE laws, including WAC .
• Oversee the development and implementation of Written Student Learning Plans (WSLPs) for all ALE students.
• Oversee the school’s multi-district online program and ensure compliance with OSPI online learning requirements, approval processes, reporting expectations, and district procedures.
• Monitor the accuracy of online learning and ALE-related reporting, including CEDARS, P223, enrollment, attendance, and out-of-district choice documentation.
• Lead preparation for and response to OSPI compliance reviews, and ensure ALE courses and materials meet state standards and district requirements.
• Collaborate with OSPI, the Washington State Board of Education, district leaders, and other partners related to online learning, ALE, mastery-based learning, grants, legal changes, reporting, and program development.
• Supervise and support staff effectively planning and delivering in-person, virtual, hybrid, and individualized instruction.
• Oversee student support systems, including attendance monitoring, Student Support Team processes, student logs, re‑engagement supports, and coordinated academic, behavioral, and social‑emotional interventions.
• Provide instructional leadership by setting high expectations aligned to district priorities, state standards, DHHS shared outcomes and targets, and student needs.
• Lead implementation of evidence‑based, standards‑aligned instructional practices and a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
• Use data to guide decision‑making, monitor student progress, identify trends and support differentiated instruction, and improve student outcomes.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through teacher leadership, coaching, feedback, and professional learning.
• Lead the continued implementation of strong Professional Learning Communities focused on curriculum alignment, student data, mastery‑based practices, Tier 1 supports, whole‑child learning, and continuous improvement.
• Supervise, evaluate, and support staff using district frameworks and performance systems.
• Lead inclusive and equitable programs for students receiving…