Date Available:
04/22/2022ABOUT CPS:
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) serves 35,000 students preschool to 12th grade in over 65 schools across a 91-square-mile district in Southwest Ohio. Cincinnati Public Schools is Greater Cincinnati's largest school district.
CPS is Ohio's fastest-growing, large-city district, with enrollment up more than 20 percent since 2012-13.
CPS offers families high-quality educational choices and a variety of academic programs. Our innovative approach to education, an investment and caring teachers, and a vast array of collaborative partnerships have accelerated students' achievement to the highest levels in decades - ensuring that students thrive and graduate prepared to enter college, the military and the workforce.
Cincinnati Public is looking for creative, innovative, passionate, problem-solvers to join our team. We seek to have a positive impact on our children and families every day and are looking for staff members who want to not only do an excellent job with their career field but also serve as a role model for the children in CPS. We invite you to become a member of our CPS work family.
PRINCIPAL - SHRODER HIGH SCHOOL
Shroder is a college-preparatory school that provides a rigorous liveral arts education that builds on critical-thinking skills, thus creating productive citizens who go forth to serve the community-at-large. As part of Cincinnati Public School district's ongoing effort to help strengthen communities through collaboration and engagement Shroder High School has been identified as a Community Learning Center. These CLC serves as a hub for collective service entities, which promote academic excellence and provide recreational, educational, health, civic and cultural opportunities for students and their families.
QUALIFICATIONS
Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from an accredited University
Valid Ohio Principals License
Minimum of three (3) years classroom teaching experience and/or administrative experience
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The position is responsible for leadership, coordination, supervision and management of the school program, curriculum, and operation.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Applicants should possess a thorough knowledge of the four domains of the Ohio Standards for Principals with knowledge, skills and abilities focused on:

• Student Learning and Achievement
• Shared Leadership
• Data-based decision-making
• Communication and collaboration
• Ongoing professional learning
• Well-being
• Technology
• Equity and cultural responsiveness.

ESSENTIAL TASKS
DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP THROUGH:

• Effectively developing, advocating and enacting a shared mission, vision and core values
• Developing building-level priorities in the context of community and District priorities and student/staff needs.
• Implementing collaborative structures and shared leadership that analyzes data to develop School Improvement Plans which contain strategies to improve teaching and student learning outcomes.
• Collaborating with district administrators, academic managers and external supports regarding the school programming.
• Display success in leading the improvement of student learning, as evidenced by the improvement of school-based and/or District-based data points.
• Exercising good judgment, insight, self-awareness, integrity, and cultural responsiveness when interacting with diverse employees, students, and stakeholders.
• Facilitating the change process and its relationship to current trends in education
• Maintaining and modeling high standards of professionalism and ethics.

LEADS LEARNING THROUGH:

• Supervising and evaluating the implementation of instructional programming.
• Training of staff with regard to the most effective practices which lead to higher student achievement regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or prior academic achievement.
• Assisting in the development, ongoing improvement, and implementation of the District and school curricular program.
• Demonstrate success in curriculum and instruction at the position’s grade level.
• Fostering an environment of effective and rigorous personalized instruction by ensuring each student has equitable access to effective teachers, leaders and learning supports.
• Working effectively with teachers to promote and organize an environment focused on continuous improvement and personal growth to achieve positive outcomes for each student.
• Demonstrating commitment and the ability to continue one’s own lifelong learning, to develop talent and leadership skills in others, to provide critical feedback, and to receive critical feedback in order to maintain high standards for one’s self and one’s school.

DEMONSTRATES CULTURAL LEADERSHIP THROUGH:

• Leading and collaborating with staff in the implementation of District and building-level goals relating to equity and inclusive student learning opportunities.
• Establishing a school climate which promotes equity and inclusiveness for all students, where the school has a positive, safe and orderly learning environment.
• Establishing a set of culturally responsive standard operating procedures, practices, and routines.
• Providing effective communication; collaborating and resolving conflicts with others, and sustaining positive partnerships with and among students, staff and stakeholders to create a safe and caring school environment.
• Demonstrating the ability and desire to establish positive relationships with persons regardless of race, gender, physical limitations, sexual orientation, or religious belief, with an active commitment to equal opportunity for all students and staff.

EFFECTIVELY MANAGES:

• Interpreting and implementing Board policies and administrative regulations
• Facilitating and collaborating with staff in the screening, selection, orientation, training, assignment, and reassignment of culturally competent and diverse school staff.
• Supervising and evaluating the performance of all assigned personnel
• Engaging staff in the development of professional growth activities designed to support individual school/District goals, cultural competence and opportunities for leadership.
• Collaborating to ensure effective implementation of the school's extracurricular program.
• Supervising the maintenance and operation of the building, grounds, and property assigned to the building.
• Collaborating in the planning and the development of the school's budget with input from staff regarding the allocation and adjustments of fiscal and material resources, and assuring timely completion of reports.
• Demonstrating effectiveness in reaching logical conclusions and making highquality decisions using appropriate decision-making processes, and accepting responsibility for actions and consequences.
• Demonstrating effectiveness representing the school in the community through business partnerships and activities.

CONTRACT PROVISIONS
Type Contract: Limited 234 days
SALARY RANGE: Based on the CAAS agreement
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
All interested applicants should submit a resume and application online at http://www.cps-k12.org/, click on employment, then Apply Online.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
Note: A lead teacher in a position may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a lead teacher. A lead teacher may apply for an administrative position if the lead teacher resigns the lead teacher position prior to submitting an application, however, selection is not guaranteed. A consulting teacher may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a consulting teacher and for one full school year after serving as a consulting teacher.
Certain jobs at Cincinnati Public Schools may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation are available upon request from Talent Acquisition and Staffing.
Cincinnati Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and is subject to federal regulations pertaining to employment. The district has a continuing non-discrimination policy which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. We hire only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.
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