RI Certified Principal

RI Certified Principal

Public St. Campus

Position Overview: The Principal is responsible as the instructional leader and school manager and assumes all
responsibilities for the functioning of the building with a focus on the following responsibilities:
○ Maximize student learning
○ Maintaining student safety
○ Nurture and implement the vision and mission of the Met at the building level
○ Oversee instructional improvement, staff development, curriculum design, development and
implementation of site-based decision-making plans, crisis intervention, and complex discipline and
school safety issues
○ Specifically focusing staff around the strategic improvement areas including: Real World Learning
Internships, Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning (math), Empirical Reasoning, personalization of
student work, and in-depth projects at the center of learning
○ Management and evaluation of staff of advisors, learning specialists, SPED, Social Worker, and Post Met
Access Counselor, and other roles
○ Building relationships, experiences, and solutions directly with students.
○ Communicating with and leveraging the power of families
○ Running building-wide PD (staff meetings, one on one meetings, etc.)
○ Participating in weekly whole-school Leadership Team meetings
○ Develop collaborative efforts between the school and community, and engage the community to build
greater ownership for the work of the school; Representing the school to the public/community
○ Encourage and develop parent/guardian involvement/partnerships; and
deal effectively with the community
○ Manage school budget
○ Collaborate well with whole school and district level staff
○ Utilize resources from the network as needed
○ Other duties as assigned by the Co-Directors

Required Qualifications, Skills & Experiences:
For Principal:
● a Valid RI Building Level Administrator Certification
● Reports to School Leadership Director.
● Demonstrated successful examples in leading adults in change process.
● Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple responsibilities
● Demonstrated success in leading in a diverse environment
● Strong and responsive communication - written and speaking skills required.
● Ability to work independently or in a team
● Familiarity with the Rhode Island Evaluation Model. Experience preferred.
● Provide an accessible strong presence and demonstrate leadership by example.
● Excellent organizational skills.
● Demonstrated ability to manage a budget.
● Ability to embrace ambiguity.
● Makes thoughtful, data driven, priority decisions.
● Must be accessible and present for school events (e.g. Open Houses, Recruitment events, fairs, etc.)
● Experiences as educator or an advisor in a Big Picture Learning school is highly regarded.
● Understanding of the principal’s role in establishing and maintaining a safe and secure school environment.
● Demonstrated leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, and personal characteristics necessary for working
effectively with students, teachers, administrators, community partners, and parents.
● Must be highly creative, organized, and able to work with a staff in need of leadership support.
● Understands the power and opportunity of project-based learning and career and technical education.
● Prioritizes time, leadership, and communications based on needs of specific school in context of of Met Strategic
Plan and BP Philosophy.
● Understanding and ability to “manage up” to Co-Director.