Vice Principal 2024
Foundation Academies
- Trenton, NJ
- $97,500-110,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Actively participate and engage in regular leadership team meetings, walkthroughs, and monthly leadership development training.
- Implement and enforce safety protocols and emergency procedures.
- Work closely with the Director of Culture and Community to ensure consistent execution of the FA Culture Handbook at excellence and ensure character development among staff and scholars, and a positive school culture.
- Be an expert teacher. Co-teach and model outstanding instruction for teachers.
- Facilitate excellent, practice-changing professional development in response to scholar and teacher data, grounded in school/network goals and priorities.
- Observe classrooms daily to determine trends, collaborating with deans to quickly remediate gaps and maximize strengths.
- Demonstrate the ability to be self-aware in stressful situations and model exceptional self-management skills.
- Lead with accountability, empathy,
- Collaborate with the entire school leadership team to norm on practices, learn from each other, and improve scholar achievement.
- Consistently model FA core values; be a visible and highly engaged leader in the school community.
- Effective coaching and development of teachers, leading to 85% proficiency and a 30% increase proficiency overall in scholar achievement results, outperforming city and state metrics in ELA and Math on NJSLA.
- Partnering with teachers to establish and maintain high standards of team performance by holding them to our bar for excellence where they maintain a score of proficient or above on our evaluation system by ensuring teachers are clear on their level of performance and steps to improve. providing actionable feedback, ongoing development and resources to continuously improve thus retaining 90% of teachers.
- Ensure execution of a high-performance culture plan grounded in the FA Culture Handbook that creates and maintains an school-wide culture of structure and pride (i.e. implementation of incentive systems, club and enrichment activities, clear schoolwide expectations). Thus achieving:
- 95% scholar attendance rate
- 80% or more of all behaviors are Tier 1
- Suspension rate
- Curriculum implementation and unit plan development
- School and Staff culture
- Staff and scholar experience resulting in 90%+ teacher retention and positive staff experience based on staff surveys.
- Special Services programming: Special Education and ENL performance and modifications
- Performance Management and Evaluation System for Teacher and Leader Development
- All things Scholar and Staff Culture: PBIS, Culture and Climate, Attendance
- Bachelor's degree; master's degree and Principal CE or eligibility required within the first two months of employment.
- At least 5 years of exceptional teaching experience with a record of high scholar achievement.
- At least 2 years of successful experience leading and managing adults.