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school principal

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Employer details The Study Academy

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*Overview* The Principal serves as the head of school for The Study Academy?s Upper School program (grades 9-12), oversees operational directives, and is intimately involved in strategic planning. This multi-faceted role involves working directly with students, teachers, families, community partners, and other members of the organisational leadership team (President, Founder, Vice-Principal, Department Head, Student Success). Leadership and decision-making processes will be aligned with a Continuous Improvement Planning (CIP) approach and reflect the school?s mission\* and priorities\*\*. Success in the position will be qualified and quantified by leading and sustaining a rich learning environment, fostering a healthy, inclusive, and equitable school culture, maintaining a capacity enrolment, managing a sustainable budget and school resources, continuing to build bridges to community partners, and ensuring compliance with governmental and non-governmental regulating and accrediting bodies. In addition to these operational objectives, the Principal will be strategically involved in the school's short- and long-term planning. Innovative, personable, growth-oriented, and learner-focussed, the Principal will lead as the face of the school and the centre of school-wide initiatives and work actively in heading committees and building leadership capacity in the faculty by distributing responsibilities to others. *Roles* * Operational leader * Program developer * Special committees chair * Human resources manager * Discipline chair * Policy author and review lead * Financial manager * Collaborator with Lower School Principal * Ministries of Education, Health and Long-Term Care, and Environment and Climate Change compliance leader *Responsibilities* * Aligning practices to school mission * Developing, communicating, and demonstrating expectations for learning * Modelling and engaging in professional learning while supporting others to do so * Building and adapting school timetables and calendar * Fostering a healthy and open culture where stakeholders are provided opportunities to provide input and constructive feedback * Managing incidents, behavioural plans, and collaborative problem-solving approaches to challenging behaviour * Working with the Vice-Principal to ensure a robust and inclusive set of student activities and events * Leading the HR team for hiring, firing, and discipline decisions and delivering feedback to members of the faculty * Participating in the admissions process * Headlining graduation, school awards, and school orientations * Leading student reporting and parent-teacher conferences * Managing school budget and resource allocations * Ensuring continuity of philosophies and practices between Lower School and Upper School *Compliance and Accreditation Requirements* * Ministry of Education - OnSIS reporting, creating and maintaining OSRs, signing off on OSR transfers, annual Notice of Intention to Operate filing * Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Vaccination reporting * Ministry of Environment and Climate Change - Overseeing water lead testing protocols (annual submission and daily flushing) * Cognia - Leading CIP and other certification initiatives \_\_ \* *Misson:* To build and continuously develop a learner-centred community that fosters a culture of engagement and creativity through inclusive and innovative teaching \*\* *Priorities:* Differentiation, Communication, and Evidence-Informed/Evidence-Based Practice Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Pay: $95,000.00-$110,000.00 per year Additional pay: * Bonus pay Benefits: * Dental care * Life insurance * Paid time off * RRSP match * Vision care Flexible language requirement: * French not required Schedule: * Monday to Friday Language: * English (required) Work Location: In person Application deadline: 2024-12-19 Expected start date: 2025-06-01