F*LSA Status:*Exempt
Reporting: This position reports to the WLC Executive Director
The school Principal serves as the educational leader, responsible for managing the policies, regulations, and procedures to ensure that all students are supervised in a safe learning environment that meets the approved curricula and mission of the school.
Achieving academic excellence requires that the school Principal work collaboratively to direct and nurture all members of the school staff hired and to communicate effectively with parents. Inherent in the position are the responsibilities for scheduling, curriculum development, extracurricular activities, personnel management, and in collaboration with the Operations team: emergency procedures, and facility operations.
School Culture:
- Pursue the vision and execute the mission of the Watts Learning Center
- Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behavior
- Manage, evaluate and supervise effective and clear procedures for the operation and functioning of the school consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the school including instructional programs, extracurricular activities, and discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel management, office operations and emergency procedures
- Work closely with parents and the community at large to develop an inclusive culture
- Maintain professional standards and a school environment that is productive, safe and focused for all stakeholders
- Model strong staff and student culture and help manage school-wide character development and behavior management systems
- Assume responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of students, employees and visitors
- Maintain visibility with students, teachers, parents and the Board
- Use effective presentation skills when addressing students, staff, parents, and the community including appropriate vocabulary and examples, clear and legible visuals, and articulate and audible speech
- Use excellent written and oral English skills when communicating with student, parents
and teachers
- Organize and supervise procedures for identifying and addressing special needs of students including health-related concerns, and physical, emotional and spiritual needs
Academic Leadership:
- Serve as chief administrator and instructional leader for the school
- Responsible for planning the master schedule of classes for students
- Direct and supervise the curriculum and guidance programs of the school
- Study curriculum and assessment content and further develop understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery on the assessments
- Ensure that assessments are used to inform teacher instruction
- Develop own and teacher’s knowledge of best practices in instructional methods and teaches teachers how to match particular strategies to gaps in student mastery
- Lead data-driven instruction meetings to help teachers determine how data aligns to end of-year goals and analyze data to identify how different student groups are performing
- Use data to identify specific instructional actions and adjustments to support students’ knowledge and skill gaps in a timely manner
•
o Provide high-quality instructional coaching with frequent and scheduled teacher observations, actionable and bite-sized feedback, and accountability for
adjustments in practice
o Share instructional knowledge of standards, content, and instructional methods to the teachers in order to provide a strong understanding of progressive goals o Connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge and support teachers on what they need to know and do to facilitate student mastery o Facilitate and coach others to lead content and grade-level meetings that focus on developing culture, honing instructional strategies, and monitoring progress for content and grade levels
o Lead engaging, actionable, adult-learning workshops and holds staff accountable for the implementation of the workshop practices
o Coordinate and assists in the in-service and professional development programs for staff
o Develop emerging teacher leaders through coaching and assigning leadership tasks
•
o Craft student discipline policies to meet unique student population needs o Support teachers in understanding processes and roles in student support and intervention and develops systems and structures to ensure that limited time is spent on reactive student discipline
Operations: in collaboration with the Operations team
- Collaborate with the Operations team on all aspects of operations to ensure that Charter School complies with federal, state and local external agency requirements
- Hire and strategically assign both certificated and classified staff members to positions in order to develop a successful school staff
- Evaluates the performance of teachers, administrators, and other school employees - in collaboration with the Operations team
- Ensure that the school meets all enrollment goals
- Establish procedures for safe storing and integrity of all public and confidential school records
o Ensure that student records are complete and current
- Implement and oversee school’s strategic plan to meet attendance and ADA goals - in collaboration with the Operations team
- Establish procedures that create and maintain attractive, organized, functional, healthy, clean, and safe facilities, with proper attention to the visual, acoustic and temperature
- Foster a collaborative relationship with property owners
- Develop and implement school safety plans, positive discipline policies and procedures that promote a school culture based upon mutual respect for students, stakeholders and in fulfillment of Board policy, LAUSD and Federal and State requirements
in collaboration with the Operations team
- Fulfill all duties set forth in the Watts Learning Center Fiscal Policy
- Develop and manage the school’s budget
- Guide the development and submit in a timely manner required Federal, State and Local accountability plans, and reports such as the LCAP, Title I Single Plan for student achievement and LAUSD requested school plans and financial reports
- Ensure that the school upholds it responsibility to be a good steward of public funds
- Develop and foster community partnerships
in collaboration with the Operations team
- Guide the development and submit in a timely manner required Federal, State and Local accountability plans, and reports such as the LCAP, Title I Single Plan for student achievement and LAUSD requested school plans and financial reports
- Responsible for the planning and execution of external oversight visits
- Adhere to Federal and State statutes, LAUSD requirements, Board policies and executing administrative procedures accordingly
Board of Directors:
- Communicate with the Board during the Board Meetings about the progress, needs and general operation of the school
- Provide input into school-based strategic planning, and identifies what the school’s strategic plan means for his/her own leadership
- Complete in a timely fashion all records and reports as requested by the Board
- Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director
- BA/BS degree or Master’s Degree (preferred)
- Valid/Cleared Administrative Credential from a Principal Preparation Program
- Evidence of 3+ years of administrative experience.
- Bilingual in Spanish (preferred)
- Demonstrated successful leadership in a senior administrative position in a public or private school preferably but not necessarily as a “Head of School” and preferably working with a Board
- Demonstrated successful teaching experience and other school roles, preferred in an urban education setting serving under-privileged youth
- Exhibited leadership in working with professional staff, students, and the community toward achieving goals
- Agreement with and commitment to the academic goals and philosophy of the charter school
- Experience or familiarity with data management and presentation and commitment to achieving students’ academic goals
- Demonstrated success in encouraging parental involvement
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Grade levels:
- 6th grade
- 7th grade
- 8th grade
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
School type:
Application Question(s):
- The following documents will also be required: 1) Proof of credential(s) 2) Letter of Introduction 4) 3 Recent Letters of Recommendation (1 must be a previous supervisor) 5) 3 Professional References
Education:
Experience:
- Teaching: 5 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CA Teaching Credential (Required)
- CA Administrative Services Credential (Required)
- CA EL Authorization (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Los Angeles, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person