Chicago High School For The Arts
2024-2025 Interim Principal
Chicago High School For The Arts, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Position Summary
The Interim Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) Principal will lead as a stabilizer, builder of confidence and trust, with an emphasis on staff collaboration, and student safety and belonging. They will work with staff to maintain a school culture of excellence, ensure educator effectiveness, and support collaborative objectives between the Arts and Academics. The Principal will focus on stabilizing the school environment, building trust among stakeholders, and reinforcing or collaboratively improving established procedures and policies. The Interim Principal may be a candidate for Principal.
Strategic Leadership
Works collaboratively and flexibly to support and improve systems and decision-making processes that stabilize outcomes.
Reinforces and maintains existing academic and culture systems and procedures that work. Works collaboratively to improve academic and culture systems and procedures that need improvement across stakeholders.
Advances the vision, mission, and values of the school in concert with the Executive Director, Artistic Director, and School Board of Directors.
Data-Informed Leadership
Reviews student learning data from a whole-school perspective from Star 360, ACCESS, and previous College Board assessments to inform follow up and response to student learning needs.
Ensures teachers use multiple sources of student learning data during common planning, classroom observations, and observation debriefings, and holds teachers accountable for knowing how their students are progressing.
Facilitates regular meetings with the grade level and department leads and ILT to build a data-informed culture that seeks continuous improvement.
Collaborates with MTSS coordinator on the implementation and roll out of MTSS program.
Instructional Program
Oversees the instructional program of the school, ensuring its development, delivery, assessment, and college readiness standards across grades.
Regularly reviews the effectiveness of instructional strategies, and works to implement or improve current professional development practices.
Collaborates with the case manager, ELPT, and MTSS coordinator to ensure they have the necessary support and guidance for our DL, ML, and high needs students.
Manages academic financial, operational, and personnel resources to support optimal instruction.
Scholar-Artist Behavioral Expectations
Implements structures to teach and reinforce behaviors in collaboration with the Dean of Students.
Develops the school's capacity to respond to students' behavioral and social-emotional needs in developmentally appropriate ways.
Monitors data to ensure that no child is invisible and that every student has access to supports within and beyond the school.
Effective Teaming
Establishes, manages, and develops strong teams that collaborate, communicate, and work together for students and the community.
Builds and maintains systems for distributed leadership through which members of the instructional leadership team manage specific initiatives and grade-level teams or departments.
Collaborates with the Artistic Director to develop a clear plan for adult learning across the school that aligns areas for whole-school improvement, teacher team areas of focus, and individual development priorities.
Equity-Centered Leadership
Possesses experience working directly with staff and students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and LGBTQ+ communities, understanding the need for equitable practices in all classrooms and spaces.
Parent/Community Engagement
Puts structures and processes in place to consistently partner with stakeholders, including staff, families, and students, to inform and adjust strategies.
Personal Leadership
Demonstrates personal resolve and maintains core confidence and belief in self and the school even in the face of adversity.
Continuously reflects on performance, seeks feedback, and actively pursues opportunities to improve personal leadership and the school.
Inspires a schoolwide sense of positivism and possibility.
Reporting Relationship
The Interim ChiArts Principal reports to the Executive Director and supervises academic and student support school staff members.
Responsible for employees including the school's Assistant Principal, Counselors, Case Manager, and Dean of Students. Supports the Artistic Director and Director of Operations.
Other Duties
Completes other duties/projects as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Masters Degree, completion of a principal program, and valid state principal license.
Minimum 4 years experience successfully leading academics in a high school setting (charter or district); previous secondary teaching experience also preferred.
Strong communicator, written and verbal - including presentations, grant reporting, and staff communication.
Previous experience interfacing with School Board of Directors and other stakeholders such as union, parents, staff, and community partners.
Strong compliance management that aligns and complies with district requirements.
Technology fluent with deep knowledge of student management systems, Google Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and technology that enhances learning.
Expertise positively navigating in a union setting, a collective bargaining agreement to inform decisions, and a key player during negotiation years.
Results-driven, data-informed, and can-do mentality.
Self-reflective about the work and leadership approach.
Excellent interpersonal, human relations, and conflict management skills.
Excellent planning, goal setting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong prioritization, organization, and follow-up.
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The Interim Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) Principal will lead as a stabilizer, builder of confidence and trust, with an emphasis on staff collaboration, and student safety and belonging. They will work with staff to maintain a school culture of excellence, ensure educator effectiveness, and support collaborative objectives between the Arts and Academics. The Principal will focus on stabilizing the school environment, building trust among stakeholders, and reinforcing or collaboratively improving established procedures and policies. The Interim Principal may be a candidate for Principal.
Strategic Leadership
Works collaboratively and flexibly to support and improve systems and decision-making processes that stabilize outcomes.
Reinforces and maintains existing academic and culture systems and procedures that work. Works collaboratively to improve academic and culture systems and procedures that need improvement across stakeholders.
Advances the vision, mission, and values of the school in concert with the Executive Director, Artistic Director, and School Board of Directors.
Data-Informed Leadership
Reviews student learning data from a whole-school perspective from Star 360, ACCESS, and previous College Board assessments to inform follow up and response to student learning needs.
Ensures teachers use multiple sources of student learning data during common planning, classroom observations, and observation debriefings, and holds teachers accountable for knowing how their students are progressing.
Facilitates regular meetings with the grade level and department leads and ILT to build a data-informed culture that seeks continuous improvement.
Collaborates with MTSS coordinator on the implementation and roll out of MTSS program.
Instructional Program
Oversees the instructional program of the school, ensuring its development, delivery, assessment, and college readiness standards across grades.
Regularly reviews the effectiveness of instructional strategies, and works to implement or improve current professional development practices.
Collaborates with the case manager, ELPT, and MTSS coordinator to ensure they have the necessary support and guidance for our DL, ML, and high needs students.
Manages academic financial, operational, and personnel resources to support optimal instruction.
Scholar-Artist Behavioral Expectations
Implements structures to teach and reinforce behaviors in collaboration with the Dean of Students.
Develops the school's capacity to respond to students' behavioral and social-emotional needs in developmentally appropriate ways.
Monitors data to ensure that no child is invisible and that every student has access to supports within and beyond the school.
Effective Teaming
Establishes, manages, and develops strong teams that collaborate, communicate, and work together for students and the community.
Builds and maintains systems for distributed leadership through which members of the instructional leadership team manage specific initiatives and grade-level teams or departments.
Collaborates with the Artistic Director to develop a clear plan for adult learning across the school that aligns areas for whole-school improvement, teacher team areas of focus, and individual development priorities.
Equity-Centered Leadership
Possesses experience working directly with staff and students from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and LGBTQ+ communities, understanding the need for equitable practices in all classrooms and spaces.
Parent/Community Engagement
Puts structures and processes in place to consistently partner with stakeholders, including staff, families, and students, to inform and adjust strategies.
Personal Leadership
Demonstrates personal resolve and maintains core confidence and belief in self and the school even in the face of adversity.
Continuously reflects on performance, seeks feedback, and actively pursues opportunities to improve personal leadership and the school.
Inspires a schoolwide sense of positivism and possibility.
Reporting Relationship
The Interim ChiArts Principal reports to the Executive Director and supervises academic and student support school staff members.
Responsible for employees including the school's Assistant Principal, Counselors, Case Manager, and Dean of Students. Supports the Artistic Director and Director of Operations.
Other Duties
Completes other duties/projects as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Masters Degree, completion of a principal program, and valid state principal license.
Minimum 4 years experience successfully leading academics in a high school setting (charter or district); previous secondary teaching experience also preferred.
Strong communicator, written and verbal - including presentations, grant reporting, and staff communication.
Previous experience interfacing with School Board of Directors and other stakeholders such as union, parents, staff, and community partners.
Strong compliance management that aligns and complies with district requirements.
Technology fluent with deep knowledge of student management systems, Google Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and technology that enhances learning.
Expertise positively navigating in a union setting, a collective bargaining agreement to inform decisions, and a key player during negotiation years.
Results-driven, data-informed, and can-do mentality.
Self-reflective about the work and leadership approach.
Excellent interpersonal, human relations, and conflict management skills.
Excellent planning, goal setting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong prioritization, organization, and follow-up.
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