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Elementary School Assistant Principal: Student Services

Employer
Brilla Public Charter Schools
Location
Crotona Park, NY
Closing date
Mar 24, 2023

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Specialty
Student & Scholar Services
Position Type
Assistant
Hours
Full-time
Employment Type
Permanent
Organization Type
College / University
Brilla Public Charter Schools
Assistant Principal, Student Services - Elementary School
About Brilla Public Charter Schools
Brilla Public Charter Schools is a network of K-8th grade schools that currently serves nearly 1,800 students from Mott Haven, University Heights, and other neighborhoods in the Bronx. The network is growing from its current four elementary and two middle schools to five elementary and five middle schools educating some 4,000 students in the Bronx and Paterson, NJ. The Charter Management Organization (CMO) for Brilla Schools Network is Seton Education Partners, an organization inspired by the Catholic educational tradition, that also manages the Seton Teaching Fellows missionary program and El Camino, an after-school Catholic faith formation program. At the heart of the Seton educational mission is our dedication to help students become young men and women of good character and spirit who are prepared for excellence in high school, college, and beyond.
Brilla combines a Classical approach to education - an emphasis on an ennobling and content-rich curriculum, inductive inquiry-driven instruction, and virtue formation that fosters an encounter with Truth, Beauty, and Goodness - with co-teaching practices and individualized online instructional support. We approach the formation of our students holistically and maintain high academic expectations. Ours is a joyful community that honors the dignity of each student, our staff members, and the families we serve.
Position Overview
The Assistant Principal, Student Services, is dedicated to the premise that every student enrolled in a school of the Brilla Schools Network has inestimable dignity and worth and that the path of life-long should be open to all. Some students require additional support to facilitate the ennobling and life-giving experience of the encounter with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty that makes learning the fundamental good of the human experience. The primary responsibility of the Assistant Principal, Student Services, is to direct and facilitate that support on the campus by ensuring that compliance mandates are met for students receiving specialized services. The Assistant Principal, Student Services, will manage and develop the school-based Student Services Team of grade-level Learning Specialists, school Social Workers, Speech Pathologists, and related services providers. Reporting to the School Principal and network Director of Student Services, the Assistant Principal, Student Services is directly responsible for implementing Brilla's Multi-tiered Student Supports framework, ensuring all federal and state compliance regulations are met, creating related service providers' schedules and communicating regularly with outside agencies, managing direct communication with the Committee for Special Education, and analyzing school-based and student-based data for interventions. The Assistant Principal, Student Services is a strategic thinker and team leader, works diligently and proactively to problem-solve in a collaborative manner, and inspires and coaches a team of staff to be high quality practitioners. The Assistant Principal, Student Services is active and engaging with families, modeling the Brilla belief that parents are the first educators of children. The Assistant Principal, Student Services embraces the conviction that all students' academic needs can be met while meeting lofty academic and behavioral outcomes - modeling both a love for the work and dedication to education for all. Brilla Assistant Principal, Student Servicess must have a deep passion for data-driven intervention planning, a desire to accept, implement, and seek feedback, and a proven ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities. An integral part of the school community, they inspire outstanding achievement in children and adults in a joyful and collaborative work environment.
Core Competencies & Responsibilities
Brilla Assistant Principal, Student Services Set the Standard
- Reviews and provides feedback on scaffolded instructional materials for students identified with learning needs, while maintaining appropriate rigor and complexity to meet and exceed goals and standards.
- Creates short-term and long-term, aggressive academic and behavioral goals for students with corresponding monitoring and implementation plans.
- Manages and facilitates fidelity to and implementation of the Multi-Tiered Student Supports systems across the school.
- Communicate regularly and proactively with the Committee for Special Education in order to ensure compliance and students' needs are being met.
- Visibly live the Brilla Mission through consistent professional dress, modeling of core virtues, execution of professional norms, and active participation in professional development and community-building activities.
- Create a joyful work environment that honors the dignity of all scholars and adults while still pushing them to achieve more than they think possible
Brilla Assistant Principal, Student Services Honor the Team
- Provides applicable strategies, training, and resources for classroom teachers and Student Services Team members to improve the learning outcomes of students who receive differentiated services.
- Supports students with differentiated learning needs by providing push-in and pull-out supports to improve student achievement outcomes.
- Forges and maintains productive, collaborative, and collegial working relationships with colleagues, parents, and related service providers.
- Contributes to a positive network and school culture and environment through consistent implementation of behavior management strategies, attendance at Brilla-sponsored events, and regular, professional communication.
- Attends regular, mission-critical programming including summer development sessions, data days, parent workshops, parent-teacher conferences, and other activities.
- Commits to be available by phone after school hours until 7:00 pm as needed to address family questions or concerns (cell phone stipended).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Brilla Assistant Principal, Student Services Make it Count
- Ensures that Brilla procedures and protocols are implemented with fidelity (including new student onboarding, co-teaching mandates, and truancy systems).
- Reflects on and proactively analyzes student academic and behavior data in order to ensure students' needs are being met and accurately tracked.
- Maintains and ensures team members keep accurate and complete student files and academic records.
- Demonstrates preparation and skill in working with students from diverse cultural, economic and ability backgrounds.
- Organizes and manages time and commitments efficiently to maximize productivity and intentionality throughout the school day and school year.
Brilla Assistant Principal, Student Services know It Starts with Them
- Establishes a vision for the Student Services Team in coordination with school leaders and establish ambitious goals for the Student Services team and the students it serves.
- Establishes a structure for team collaboration, decision-making, and team meetings aligned with Network and School Strategic Priorities that prioritizes student achievement.
- Supervises and evaluates team members, ensuring deadlines, surveys, data and assessment, and other professional responsibilities are met and completed with quality and fidelity
- Guides and supports Student Services team members's ability to analyze, create, synthesize, and evaluate plans and high quality instruction for constant improvement.
- Creates and revises high-quality Individual Education Plans for students receiving special services.
- Models courage, justice, wisdom, and self-control, while championing a positive, flexible attitude and solution-based approach to challenges.
- Monitors and ensures compliance deadlines and responsibilities are being met by all staff and Committee for Special Education.
- Reflects upon strengths and areas for growth, committing to continuous professional development.
- Prepared to challenge assumptions and beliefs about teaching and learning in order to best meet the needs of students and the mission of the organization
- Seek to grow both professionally and personally as an educator of students with varying learning needs by deepening content mastery, independently reading current literature, and improving in leadership competencies.
Qualifications
- The confidence that education can awaken the imagination to limitless possibility, stir the heart to love what is good, and inflame the mind to seek understanding of truth.
- An unwavering, confident, and enthusiastic commitment to the educational mission of the Brilla Schools Network in service to the school community.
- A relentless dedication to providing all students with an academically robust, inspiring, and joyful learning experience.
- Master's Degree or higher from an accredited institution.
- Possession of current special education teaching certification.
- Possession of ESL or ELL teaching certification (preferred).
- 3+ years of relevant urban, elementary or middle teaching experience with demonstrated student results (preferred).
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Spanish language proficiency (preferred).
? Brilla provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees.
The base pay range for this position is 115,000 - 138,806 per year. Pay may vary within the stated range, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus for some roles may be provided as part of the compensation package subject to executive leadership approval, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.
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