Academy Principal General Applicant Pool - Tarrant County

Principal Please Note: This posting is for a general applicant pool. While there may or may not be an immediate vacancy, we are accepting applications to proactively identify strong candidates for future opportunities. If a position becomes available that aligns with your experience and qualifications, we may reach out to you for next steps.

Mission

Principals are systems leaders and people managers who coach and develop teachers and lead team members at their school to achieve ambitious goals with students. Principals focus on excellence and continuous improvement, and they expect and foster these values in staff and students. Principals lead their schools to ensure IDEA’s mission of College for All Children becomes reality.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly manage campus leadership (i.e. Assistant Principals of Instruction, Assistant Principal of Operations, Director of College Counseling, etc). Supervise Admin Assistant

Travel Expectations

Travel to IDEA training events or step-back may be required.

Essential Duties

• Lead School Culture Systems: set the vision for school culture and build and maintain strong schoolwide systems to ensure that vision becomes a reality; ensure all teachers are proficient in building positive student relationships, creating effective classroom routines and procedures, reinforcing positive behaviors, and responding consistently and effectively to misbehaviors; coach and train teachers to master these skills; coach and develop other leaders to do the same so that you can drive this work through your lead team.
• Lead Instructional Systems: build and maintain strong schoolwide systems to ensure all teachers internalize their content, deliver high quality first instruction, and analyze data in order to implement strategic adjustments and interventions that increase student learning; coach and develop other instructional leaders to do the same and drive this work through your instructional lead team.
• Lead Operational Systems: build and maintain strong systems for school operations to ensure your campus is safe, welcoming, and efficiently run; coach and manage the assistant principal of operations to meet student enrollment and daily attendance goals; coach and develop the assistant principal of operations to be an excellent systems leader and people manager so that they can drive results through their operations team.
• Lead Family Engagement Systems: build and maintain strong systems for family engagement and communication, including both new family on