Principal of Braintree High School

QUALIFICATIONS:
1. A Master’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
2. At least five years of successful administrative experience
3. Massachusetts licensure as a Principal Grades 5-12
4. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the School Committee may
find appropriate and acceptable
REPORTS TO: Superintendent of Schools or designee
SUPERVISES: All personnel assigned to school
JOB GOAL: To provide the leadership to effectively implement the school
philosophy, policies, goals, and objectives as promulgated by the School Committee
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
A. Instructional Leadership: Promotes the learning and growth of all students and
the success of all staff by cultivating a shared vision that makes effective teaching
and learning the central focus of schooling.
1. Curriculum Indicator: Ensures that all teachers design effective and rigorous
standards-based units of instruction consisting of well-structured lessons with
measurable outcomes.
2. Instruction Indicator: Ensures that instructional practices in all settings reflect
high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work, engage all
students, and are personalized to accommodate diverse learning styles,
needs, interests, and levels of readiness.
3. Assessment Indicator: Ensures that all teachers use a variety of formal and
informal methods and assessments to measure student learning, growth and
understanding, and also make necessary adjustments to their practice when
students are not learning.
4. Evaluation Indicator: Provides effective and timely supervision and evaluation
in alignment with state regulations and contract provisions.
B. Management and Operations: Promotes the learning and growth of all students
and the success of all staff by ensuring a safe, efficient, and effective learning
environment, using resources to implement appropriate curriculum, staffing and
scheduling.
1. Environmental Indicator: Develops and executes effective plans,
procedures, routines and operational systems to address a full range of safety,
health, emotional, and social needs of students.
2. Human Resources Management and Development Indicator: Implements
a cohesive approach to recruitment, hiring, induction, development and career
growth that promotes high quality and effective practice.
3. Scheduling and Management Information Systems Indicator: Uses systems
to ensure optimal use of time for teaching, learning and collaboration.
4. Laws, Ethics, and Policies Indicator: Understands and complies with state
and federal laws and mandates, school committee policies, collective
bargaining agreements, and ethical guidelines.
5. Fiscal Systems Indicator: Develops a budget that supports the district’s
vision, mission and goals; allocates and manages expenditures consistent
with district/school level goals and available resources.
C. Family and Community Engagement: Promotes the learning and growth of all
students and the success of all staff through effective partnerships with families,
community organizations, and other stakeholders that support the mission of the
school and district.
1. Engagement Indicator: Actively ensures that all families are welcome
members of the classroom and school community and can contribute to the
classroom, school, and community’s effectiveness.
2. Sharing Responsibility Indicator: Continuously collaborates with families to
support student learning and development both at home and at school.
3. Communication Indicator: Engages in regular, two-way, culturally proficient
communication with families about student learning and performance.
4. Family Concerns Indicator: Addresses family concerns in equitable, effective,
and efficient manner.
D. Professional Culture: Promotes success for all students by nurturing and
sustaining a school culture of reflective practice, high expectations, and continuous
learning for staff.
1. Commitment to High Standards Indicator: Fosters a shared commitment to
high standards of teaching and learning with high expectations for
achievement for all, including:
1. Mission and Core Values. Secures staff commitment to core values that
guide the development of a succinct, results-oriented mission
statement and ongoing decision making.
2. Meetings. Plans and leads well-run and engaging meetings that have
clear purpose, focus on matters of consequence, and engage
participants in a thoughtful and productive series of conversations and
deliberations about important school matters.
2. Cultural Proficiency Indicator: Ensures that policies and practices enable staff
members and students to contribute to and interact effectively in a culturally
diverse environment in which students’ backgrounds, identities, strengths,
and challenges are respected.
3. Communications Indicator: Demonstrates strong interpersonal, written and
verbal communication skills.
4. Continuous Learning Indicator: Develops and nurtures a culture in which all
staff members are reflective about their practice and use student data, current
research, best practices and theory to continuously adapt instruction and
achieve improved results. Models these behaviors in the administrator’s own
practice.
5. Shared Vision Indicator. Successfully and continuously engages all
stakeholders in the creation of a shared educational vision in which every
student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education and careers, and
can become responsible citizens and community contributors.
6. Managing Conflict Indicator. Employs strategies for responding to
disagreement and dissent, constructively resolving conflict, and building
consensus throughout a district/school community.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Full year position. Salary and working to conditions to be negotiated.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with
provisions of the School Committee’s policy on Evaluation of Administrative
Personnel.

Serious applicants are invited to apply to Bulletin 1743 Principal of Braintree High School on the District’s website or Schoolspring.