Middle School Associate Principal

Position Type:
Administration/Associate Principal
Date Posted:
4/26/2023
Location:
Glacial Drumlin School
Date Available:
07/01/2023
Closing Date:
05/10/2023 Monona Grove School District has an opening for a Middle School Associate Principal at Glacial Drumlin School. Position begins July 1, 2023.
Overview:
The Monona Grove School District is a student-focused culture that empowers continuous learners to embrace global opportunities and excellence. The mission of the Monona Grove School District is to enhance achievement for all students by cultivating a desire for learning and instilling social responsibility.
This Associate Principal will be the third member of the administrative team that works together to serve approximately 780 students in grades 6-8.
Essential Role Responsibilities
Continuous improvement has been a hallmark at MGSD and the district is committed to ensuring exemplary leadership at every one of its schools. To ensure that each student succeeds academically, the Associate Principal of Glacial Drumlin School must focus tenaciously on leading a positive and engaged school culture focused on achieving: high quality teaching and learning, equitable opportunity, access and outcomes, highly effective diverse personnel, and an engaged community.
The Associate Principal's responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:
Lead a Positive School Community Culture and Climate

• Serves as a steward of the school's history and current strengths, while shaping a clear and compelling vision, mission, goals for the future that align with the District vision, mission and goals.
• Ensure a physically and emotionally safe, healthy and positive learning environment for all students.
• Create proactive systems to communicate with and garner feedback from students, parents, staff, community members, the Superintendent, and the Board of Education to inform continuous school improvement planning.
• Facilitate the development of appropriate partnerships with businesses, social services agencies, and other organizations that promote a positive learning environment for all students.

Support High Quality Teaching and Learning

• Define and promote high expectations for instruction, emphasizing research-based strategies to improve teaching and learning and initiating discussions about culturally responsive instructional approaches both in teams and with individual staff members.
• Integrate the analysis of current programs and student achievement results into curriculum development activities.
• Analyze and share data to drive decisions and solve problems to achieve student outcomes.

Ensure equitable opportunity, access and outcomes

• Identify personal biases and addresses systemic inequities so that students have equal access to rigorous learning opportunities.
• Create an inclusive learning environment by communicating that all students are important members in the class community, elevating diverse perspectives in the learning environment, affirming student identities and supporting each child's unique learning abilities.
• Lead staff to implement culturally relevant pedagogy, valuing and actively seeking to understand students, including their home culture and language, to inform instructional strategies in the classroom.
• Models cultural proficiency, sensitivity, and racial equity to enable all students to achieve high standards.

Support effective diverse personnel

• Provide leadership in the ongoing process of recruiting, selecting, developing, managing, and retaining diverse high performing staff dedicated to maintaining a healthy school environment.
• Is approachable, personable and visible. Cultivates leadership among school staff and recognizes the expertise staff bring to improve instructional practice.
• Strategically plans to retain high performers, support struggling performers, and remediate or exit persistent low performers.
• Provide supervision, evaluation, mentoring, and professional growth and development opportunities for staff.
• Support common planning time for staff.
• Implements evidence-based, frequent classroom observations to provide quality feedback and coaching to teachers that lead to improvements in learning.

Perform other related duties as directed by the Building Administrator.
Key Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

• The vision and courage to ensure every student, regardless of background, can achieve college and career success.
• Instructional expertise in K-12 education with proven ability to support, coach, and develop teachers to improve instructional practice.
• Knowledge of theory and practice in culturally responsive, inclusive, and special education programming.
• Skilled in leadership, including providing purpose and direction for groups and individuals, facilitating the development of a shared vision for the school, and formulating goals and planning changes with the staff by setting priorities.
• Track record of continuously monitoring progress and demonstrating reflection, continuous learning and persistence to overcome obstacles to achieve goals.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, tailoring message for the audience, context, and mode of communication.
• Skillful navigation of political structures, relationships, and dynamics to improve results for students
• Skilled in organizational oversight, including scheduling work to use resources appropriately to meet goals, scheduling activity flow, and monitoring project deadlines.
• Skilled in delegation of authority, including assigning tasks so that they can be accomplished in a timely and appropriate manner, and using subordinates appropriately.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills and the ability to analyze data, identify trends, and diagnose root causes.
• Excellent project management skills, including close attention to detail, ability to balance the big picture with detailed steps to reach the end goal, and ability to balance multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate collaborative resourcefulness - utilizing resources within and outside the school to find innovative ways to reach shared solutions.

Required Experience, Training and Licensure

• Valid Wisconsin Principal license or evidence of eligibility to be licensed as a principal in Wisconsin required.
• Master's Degree in School Administration or closely related field required.
• Five or more years of successful teaching experience.
• Demonstrated track record of increasing student achievement, utilizing a variety of approaches to meet all students' needs.

Application Instructions
For best consideration, please submit a completed application on Applitrack by May 10, 2023. Position will be open until filled.
Internal applicants, please apply by May 3, 2023.
Monona Grove School District is an equal opportunity employer and encourages resumes from diverse, bi-lingual or multi-lingual candidates. MGSD does not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, ancestry or national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or age.