High School Principal

Full Time: High School Principal (23.24 School Year)

Department: School Leadership

Start Date: May 31, 2023

Company Description

Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School is a growing free public charter school offering a choice to families and children in the Greater Bessemer/Birmingham area. As the only Aviation focused charter school system in the state, we are driven and committed to our mission, vision, and equity statement.

We believe our champions will be best prepared to succeed in the global aviation and aerospace industry if they are skilled in the art of weighing perspectives, communicating effectively and exploring globally. Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School (AAHS) is deeply committed to meeting the needs of all students. We are intentional about our culture and implementation. To learn more about AAHS visit our website www.alaahs.org

Mission: At Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School (AAHS), we're creating the aviation and aerospace leaders of tomorrow. Through our rigorous, immersive and industry-aligned instruction, we're giving our champions the skills, curiosity and inspiration to pursue real-life careers that will challenge and reward them professionally and personally.

Vision: We strive to create clearly-defined pathways for our diverse student body to enter aviation and aerospace careers and also to become a widely respected source of leaders for the industry.

Equity Statement: Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School is an anti-racist and anti-sexist organization by confronting inequities, barriers, and oppressive policies and systems.

AAHS is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all our Champions, families, teachers, staff and community members. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Job Description

Key Roles and Responsibilities

School Leadership

• Provide exemplary leadership to all members of the school community to achieve outstanding performance in the school's mission of preparing each student for college and success in the 21st century.
• Shares a sense of urgency about achievement for ALL students and preparing every student for four-year college.
• Demonstrates tenacity and persistence in pursuit of solutions that maximize student achievement. Is willing to do whatever it takes to get the work done right.
• Inspires students, families, staff, and others to believe in and reflect the school's mission, high expectations and values.
• Work to dramatically improve student achievement by leading the core model elements of AAHS.
• Effectively manage and support faculty and staff; supporting other members of the leadership team in their management and support of staff.
• Develop and communicate the School Plan: school's systems, culture, and vision, and create a plan to achieve that vision
• Serve as point person for all students and families
  
  

Instructional Coaching,Evaluation,and Leadership

• Oversee staff of the school, including recruitment, selection, performance and evaluation, management, retention support, and termination.
• Creates a professional learning community in which teachers regularly collaborate to reflect on and refine curriculum and instruction at the school using achievement data, student work, and their own observations/experiences.
• Oversee curriculum development and assessment
• Oversee the Implementation of effective internal and external assessment systems
• Lead the school's' data driven instructional practice
• Ensure strong consistency within the school program and curricular alignment with state and other rigorous standards
• Demonstrates ability to provide teachers with specific, actionable, qualitative (i.e., narrative) and quantitative (i.e., rubric) feedback on their performance in all areas.
• Able to manage a data-driven instructional process that includes rigorous interim assessments that are effectively aligned with year-end assessments and college readiness. Able to align all other school leadership components to the data driven instructional process (professional development, curriculum development, teacher observation/supervision, etc.
• Manage teaching staff, including professional development, observations, curriculum development, staff communication, and scheduling and program decisions
• Lead staff to ensure that all staff are providing well-managed and rigorous daily lessons
• Foster commitment among staff to the development and fulfillment of the school's mission and objectives
• Work with staff on all curricular, instructional, assessment, and professional development issues and activities to ensure data drives classroom instruction
• Facilitate positive and strong adult culture
  
  

Family and Community Engagement

• Maintain communication and relations with the families of the school, ensuring they are kept involved with and held accountable for their children's academic and behavioral performance
• Communicate regularly with families regarding student performance and academic achievement
• Work with staff to correspond regularly with families regarding school policies, trips, events, and milestones
• Work with staff to plan, coordinate, and support family meetings and special events
• Respond to family concerns promptly and effectively
• Partner with your school's Managing Director to translate and execute the network Regional Community Engagement Plan into a School into school based strategies
  
  

Student Support/School Culture

• Able to establish a school culture that is centered on core values that ultimately deeply cares for each student and staff member and holds each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability.
• Lead school based Morning Meetings multiple times per week.
• Collaborate with school staff to maximize the ability of the school to support students' academic and socio-emotional development
• Provide leadership to all staff and students in establishing a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and fun school culture
• Oversee students' academic and behavioral program
• Foster consistency in academic and behavioral expectations in and out of class=
  
  

Organizational Leadership

• Work closely with the school's Managing Director to partner closely in driving to results
• Receive regular coaching and leadership development from the CEO or CSO aligned to the AAHS Leadership Competencies and Skills
• Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of school
• Participate in network wide events and celebrations
• Serve on the AAHS Leadership Team
• Oversee school-wide strategic planning and problem solving
• Able to implement systems that "sweat the small stuff," maximize the programmatic goals of the school, and are scalable as the school grows. Develops solutions to complex problems that involve multiple stakeholders and steps.
• Manages with fiscal responsibility - develops a disciplined planning process that identifies the school's highest-priorities.
  
  

Leader Profile

Developing Others:

• Demonstrated ability to motivate and influence others to drive to results
• Leads others with the specific intent to increase the short- and long-term effectiveness of another person.

Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability to leverage and navigate the collective strengths and areas of opportunities of the school team.

Conviction: Acts with the purpose of affecting the perceptions, thinking, and actions of others.

Family and Community Engagement Leadership:

• Understands the social/political contexts of the school community.
• Shares a compelling recruitment message
• Enlists the support of key stakeholders in the community
• Engages frequently and authentically with community stakeholders to gather input and ensure community feels heard
• Establishes trust, relationships and authority within the broader community
• Demonstrated Ability to Hold the Bar of Excellence by Driving to Results
• Holds a strong achievement orientation
• Demonstrates initiative and persistence
• Demonstrates the ability to monitor and be... more
  

Reports To CEO

Job Posting Link https://careers.alaahs.org/jobs/2469727-principal

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