Principal, Fort Logan Northgate

Position Type:
Administration/Principal

Date Posted:
1/6/2025

Location:
Fort Logan Northgate/Denver, CO

Date Available:
-07/01/2025

JOB TITLE: Principal
LOCATION: Fort Logan Northgate
WORK YEAR: 220 work days
WORK STATUS: Administrative, Full Time Exempt
REPORTS TO: Superintendent

POSITION SUMMARY:
Sheridan School District No. 2 is seeking an outstanding principal who will provide continued leadership for Fort Logan Northgate to serve at-risk students in grades 3-8. This position is responsible for the oversight and leadership of the entire instructional program including student achievement, supervision and evaluation of school personnel, financial and facilities management and the general overall progress of students and staff.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Principals demonstrate strategic leadership

• School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals: The principal collaboratively develops the vision, mission, values, expectations and goals of the school, and facilitates their integration into the life of the school community.
• School Plan: The principal ensures that a plan is in place to improve academic achievement and developmental outcomes for all students, and provides for data-based progress monitoring.
• Leading Change: The principal collaborates with staff and their school community to implement strategies for change and improvements that result in improved achievement and developmental outcomes for all students.
• Distributive Leadership; The principal creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and support collaborative efforts throughout the school among teachers and administrators.

Principals demonstrate instructional leadership

• Curriculum, Instruction, Learning, and Assessment: The principal promotes school-wide efforts to establish, implement and refine appropriate expectations for curriculum, instructional practices, assessment and use of data on student learning based on scientific research and evidence-based practices that result in student academic achievement.
• Instructional Time: The principal creates processes and schedules which maximize instructional, collaborative and preparation time.
• Implementing High-Quality Instruction; The principal supports teacher development to ensure that rigorous, relevant and evidence-based instruction and authentic learning experiences meet the needs of all students and are aligned across P-20.
• High Expectations for All Students: The principal holds all staff accountable for setting and achieving rigorous performance goals for all students, and empowers staff to achieve these goals across content areas.
• Instructional Practices: The principal demonstrates a rich knowledge of effective, research-based instructional practices in order to support and guide teachers in data-based decision making regarding effective practices to maximize student success.

Principals demonstrate school cultural and equity leadership

• Intentional and Collaborative School Culture: The principal articulates, models and positively reinforces a clear vision and values of the school's culture, and involve students, families and staff in creating an inclusive and welcoming climate.
• Commitment to the Whole Child: Principals promote the cognitive, physical, social and emotional health, growth and skill development of every student.
• Equity Pedagogy: The principal creates an inclusive and positive school culture, and provides instruction in meeting the needs of diverse students, talents, experiences and challenges in support of student achievement.
• Efficacy, Empowerment, and a Culture of Continuous Improvement: The principal fosters a culture of continuous improvement based on research, innovation, prudent risk-taking, high expectations for all students and teachers, and a valid assessment of outcomes.

Principals demonstrate human resource leadership

• Professional Development/Learning Communities: The principal ensures that the school is a professional learning community and provides opportunities for collaboration, fosters teacher learning and develops teacher leaders.
• Recruiting, Hiring, Placing, Mentoring, and Dismissal of Staff: The principal establishes and effectively manages processes and systems that ensure a knowledgeable, high-quality, high-performing staff.
• Teacher and Staff Evaluation: The principal evaluates staff performance using the District's evaluation system to ensure that teachers and staff are evaluated in a fair and equitable manner with a focus on improvement.

Principals demonstrate managerial leadership

• School Resources and Budget: The principal manages school resources to facilitate student learning, academic achievement and overall healthy development for all students.
• Conflict Management and Resolution: The principal manages the complexity of human interactions and relationships, including those among and between parents/guardians, students and staff.
• Systematic Communication: The principal facilitates the design and utilization of various forms of formal and informal communication with all school stakeholders.
• School-wide Expectations for Students and Staff: The principal ensures that clear expectations, structures, rules and procedures are established for students and staff.
• Supporting Policies and Agreements: The principal ensures federal, state and District policies, laws and agreements are consistently met and implemented.
• Ensuring an Orderly and Supportive Environment: The principal ensures that the school provides an orderly and supportive environment fostering safety, respect, and well-being.

Principals demonstrate external development leadership

• Family and Community Involvement and Outreach: The principal ensures family and community engagement, support and ownership for the school.
• Professional Leadership Responsibilities: The principal collaborates with their colleagues, School District leadership and other stakeholders to drive the development and successful implementation of initiatives that better serve students, teachers and schools at all levels of the education system.
• Advocacy for the School: The principal leverages the School District and community resources available to them both within and outside of the school in order to maximize the school's ability to serve the best interest of students and families.

Principals demonstrate leadership around measures of student learning

• Student Academic Achievement and Growth: The principal ensures that all students are progressing toward postsecondary and workforce readiness standards to be mastered by high school graduation.
• Student Growth and Development: The principal facilitates the preparation of students with the skills, dispositions and attitudes necessary for success in work and postsecondary education, including democratic and civic participation.
• Use of Data: The principal uses evidence and data to evaluate the school performance, in order to continually improve attainment of Student Academic Growth.

Performs other duties as requested.

SPAN OF CONTROL
Directly supervise counselors, teachers, school resource officers, coaches, club sponsors, classified employees, SERS personnel, and others as assigned. Responsible for interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

COMPLEXITY OF WORK
Requires analytical skills, independent thinking, considerable judgment, and the ability to assess crises and make sound decisions quickly with little time or input from others. Assists with managing personnel, curriculum, student success and discipline, and physical plant. Must have a strong understanding of student behavior, District culture and policies, and be able to quickly analyze the impact of decisions on the student, school, District, and community. Generally, work is complicated by the volume of students at the school site, large budget management responsibilities, and the diversity and severity of student issues and crises.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Master's Degree
Two to five years or equivalent experience in a leadership role
Bilingual preferred

LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS:
Appropriate Administrator licensure as required by the state of Colorado

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions required the following physical demands: some lifting up to 50 pounds, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling: and signification fine finger dexterity. Generally, the job requires sitting, walking, and standing. This job is performed in generally a clean and healthy environment.

CLEARANCE:
Must clear online background check and FBI Fingerprint check through Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

SALARY:
Placement on Administrative Salary Schedule will be between $110,680.06-128,519.90 based upon previous related experience.

BENEFITS:
Employees who are scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible to obtain district health benefits which include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance and supplemental benefits. Positions that qualify for health benefits also qualify for leave which could include vacation and daily leave to be determined by the position and number of days assigned. Sheridan School District No. 2 is a public employer and participates in the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA).. All employees are required by state statute to contribute 11% of salary on a pre-tax basis to PERA and the District contributes 21%,
All interested and qualified applicants must complete an online application at www.ssd2.org. Incomplete applications and resumes received in lieu of applications will not be considered. Selected applicants will be contacted for an interview. This position will close once the vacancy has been filled.