Principal - IDEA Brownsville Academy (Immediate Opening)

About the role

The Principal at IDEA is a systems leader and people manager who coaches and develops teachers and leads team members at their school to achieve ambitious goals with students across both elementary and middle school grades.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for school culture and build and maintain strong schoolwide systems to ensure that vision becomes a reality.

• Ensure all leaders are proficient in coaching teachers and staff to proficiency in building positive student relationships, creating effective classroom routines and procedures, reinforcing positive behaviors, and responding consistently and effectively to misbehaviors.

• Coach and train leaders to coach teachers and staff to proficiency in these skills.

• Build and maintain strong schoolwide systems for MTSS to ensure students receive the Student Support Interventions they need.

• Build and maintain strong schoolwide instructional systems and special programs systems to ensure all students with IEPs, 504 plans, and any other eligibilities receive the instruction and services they need for success.

• Lead operational systems to ensure your campus is safe, welcoming, and efficiently run.

• Build and maintain strong schoolwide systems for MTSS to ensure students receive the Attendance Interventions they need.

• Lead family engagement systems to ensure families receive regular communication from staff about their student’s progress and school events, and that staff engage families as key partners in the education of our students.

• Make strategic hiring, retention and promotion decisions, and coach other leaders to do the same.

• Plan, execute, and maintain systems that allow for schoolwide data collection, analysis, and action in order to make strategic, data-driven decisions.

• Manage work and teams by leading cross-functional coordination to align efforts with strategic goals, optimize resource use, and minimize silos.

• Grow self and others by identifying development needs across multiple groups and integrating them into broader strategic plans, creating structures that support ongoing growth, engaging in succession planning, and continuously refining development strategies based on outcomes and data.

• Communicate deliberately by communicating a clear and compelling vision that aligns team efforts with organizational goals, proactively identifying and addressing communication gaps across workstreams, and implementing solutions to enhance coordination.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required.

• Master’s degree is preferred.

• At least 3 years of experience as an instructional leader achieving dramatic gains in a challenging context and 3+ years of teaching experience are preferred qualifications.

Qualifications

• Ability to move throughout a school building, including outdoor spaces, shared indoor spaces, and classrooms, and between floors via stairs or elevator.

• Ability to engage in virtual meetings and work remotely.

• Ability to travel to and from campus and regional training locations.

Skills

• Strategic Decision Making

• Team Leadership

• People Development

• Culture Building

• Data Analysis

• Communication

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits: Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $102,000 and $121,000, commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity. This role is also eligible for performance pay based on organizational performance and goal attainment. Additionally, we offer medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. You can find more information about our benefits at https://ideapublicschools.org/careers/benefits/.

IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

Application Process

Submit your application online through Jobvite. Please note that applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible.