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FOUNDING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Who We Are
Cactus Park Elementary is the second school of the nationally-celebrated pilotED Schools network opening for the 2022-2023 school year. At Cactus Park Elementary, we strive to center the voices and experiences of our students and their families as we further the academic excellence, social identity development, and civic engagement of our students. From our daily identity-based curriculum to our on-campus farm, Cactus Park Elementary provides an inclusive, enriching lifestyle for our students and families to forever interrupt generational cycles of poverty.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an integral member of the leadership team, the primary responsibility of the Founding Assistant Principal is to support the Principal in carrying out the mission and vision of Cactus Park Elementary. The Founding Assistant Principal position is a school-based leadership role with significant responsibilities for comprehensive school leadership across team, instruction, operations, culture, community, and more. During early founding years, the Assistant Principal is a core member of the Leadership Team with diverse responsibilities for high-quality school startup.
The Assistant Principal will work with the principal and school staff as co-leaders and decision makers and will also be responsible for supervising and providing feedback for teachers and staff, leading professional development, engaging with current and future students and families, and gathering and analyzing student data. The Assistant Principal will report directly to the School Principal.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Embody the pilotED vision, mission, and policies:
Codify Initiatives, Resources, and Tools for Academics
Student Support/Culture:
Systems:
School Leadership:
Other Responsibilities:
Ideal candidates will have the following skills and experience:
Salary & Benefits
Equal Opportunity Employer
pilotED Schools of Nevada Inc is an equal‐opportunity employer that actively seeks to hire and retain a diverse, passionate, and dedicated team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, marital status, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status. All employment decisions will be made solely on the basis of the individual's qualifications as related to the requirement of the position being filled.
Cactus Park Elementary is the second school of the nationally-celebrated pilotED Schools network opening for the 2022-2023 school year. At Cactus Park Elementary, we strive to center the voices and experiences of our students and their families as we further the academic excellence, social identity development, and civic engagement of our students. From our daily identity-based curriculum to our on-campus farm, Cactus Park Elementary provides an inclusive, enriching lifestyle for our students and families to forever interrupt generational cycles of poverty.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an integral member of the leadership team, the primary responsibility of the Founding Assistant Principal is to support the Principal in carrying out the mission and vision of Cactus Park Elementary. The Founding Assistant Principal position is a school-based leadership role with significant responsibilities for comprehensive school leadership across team, instruction, operations, culture, community, and more. During early founding years, the Assistant Principal is a core member of the Leadership Team with diverse responsibilities for high-quality school startup.
The Assistant Principal will work with the principal and school staff as co-leaders and decision makers and will also be responsible for supervising and providing feedback for teachers and staff, leading professional development, engaging with current and future students and families, and gathering and analyzing student data. The Assistant Principal will report directly to the School Principal.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Embody the pilotED vision, mission, and policies:
- Be a well-known, positive school presence, modeling pilotED Schools’ mission and values
- Develop and demonstrate knowledge of standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior
- Model professional maturity; emotional constancy in stressful situations, bringing out the best in others, and seek solutions and positively motivating
- Serve as a symbolic leader who embraces and enthusiastically promotes the transformative mission, vision, and values
Codify Initiatives, Resources, and Tools for Academics
- Provide instructional leadership informed by a nuanced understanding of instructional best practices
- Collaborate and/or design professional developments around student achievement
- Oversee standardized testing
- Develop and maintain the school academic framework
- Provide teachers with specific, actionable, qualitative (i.e., narrative) and quantitative (i.e., rubric) feedback on their performance in all areas
- Engage in the implementation of a collaborative method of evaluation to provide ongoing feedback for staff that leads to constant professional improvement to include at least 1x/month classroom observation, contributing to the annual evaluation process, and holding data meetings
- Lead and empower teachers to use student achievement data to reflect on teaching practices and make formal and informal decisions about instruction
- Work with a team to evaluate student learning by collecting and analyzing a variety of qualitative and quantitative information; employ the results to continually improve learning and engagement among all students
Student Support/Culture:
- Through coaching and modeling, support school based staff in building their capacity to implement academic interventions
- Increase building level capacity by engaging with the implementation of trauma-informed and restorative practices, school wide tier one systems, tiered interventions
- Cultivate school culture centered on core values that deeply care for each student and staff member and hold each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability
- Support student behavior prevention and response
Systems:
- Implement systems that “sweat the small stuff,” maximize the programmatic goals of the school, and are scalable as the school grows
- Develop solutions to complex problems involving all interested parties
- Manage with fiscal responsibility - develop a disciplined planning process that identifies the school’s highest-priorities and aligns resources to meet those priority needs
School Leadership:
- Collaborate with the special education department and overall leadership team to ensure all students are receiving appropriate services and making appropriate progress toward learning goals
- Collaborate with the School Principal and teachers to ensure the learning environment is beautiful, clean, and designed to support student independence
- Support the leadership team to ensure effective implementation of logistics necessary for running a well-functioning school, such as scheduling, test administration, beautification projects and other details
- Create and facilitate new & returning teacher professional development
Other Responsibilities:
- Welcome all students and families and get to know them personally and by name
- Serve as a recruiter for new students; actively building partnerships with prospective families in an effort to draw more students to choose our school; be willing to take on additional tasks to support recruitment, as needed
- Actively engage in the community in which our school is located and the broader Las Vegas community. This includes community outreach, touring our school with elected officials and other community members, planning, hosting, and attending community events and encouraging staff to be present in the community
- Plan and attend events that contribute to the staff, school, and community culture
- Support and encourage all teachers and staff about their roles; engage and consult founding team members as co-leaders and decision makers; and help them develop their leadership skills in support of the school’s mission and continued growth
- Encourage others to make decisions that are right for them by being supportive, not authoritarian; but be able to make occasional tough decisions
- Assist the School Principal to recruit and hire a diverse, high-quality staff that shares the vision and mission of pilotED’s Cactus Park Elementary
- Alongside the School Principal, contribute to budgeting that focuses first on students but supports the well-being of team members
- Engage with the School Principal and Founding Teachers in the difficult work of starting a new school
- Perform other duties as assigned
Ideal candidates will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong character, passion for excellence and a relentless commitment to our students and school
- Demonstrated track record of outstanding, outcomes-driven leadership in K-12 schools
- At least 5 years of leadership experience, a Nevada School Administrator’s License, or a Master’s degree (or higher) in Educational Leadership or related field
- A minimum of 3 years of teaching plus school-based administrative or supervisory experience
- Strong technology skills relating to blended learning, data analysis, and communications
- A deep passion for well-being, diversity, and inclusive practices
- Self-starter, interdependent team member
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a high-stress environment
- Demonstrated ability to coach, manage and lead adults to successful outcomes
- Passion for equity in education, serving youth and families, and closing the opportunity gap
- Willingness to embrace innovative pedagogy and social emotional learning techniques that support whole child development and well-being
- A laser-focused approach on student and adult well-being
- Clear and compelling verbal and written communication
- At least 5+ years working in schools and classrooms
- Nevada School Administrator License
- Proficiency in Spanish
Salary & Benefits
- Base salary starts at $70,000+
- Comprehensive health benefits
- NVPERS
- Holiday, recreation and performance-based bonuses
- Monthly cell phone contributions
Equal Opportunity Employer
pilotED Schools of Nevada Inc is an equal‐opportunity employer that actively seeks to hire and retain a diverse, passionate, and dedicated team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, marital status, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected status. All employment decisions will be made solely on the basis of the individual's qualifications as related to the requirement of the position being filled.