PRINCIPAL PAWLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Probationary, tenure-track with competitive salary and benefits

Minimum Qualifications:

• Extensive, highly successful elementary teaching experience
• Building leadership, at any level, as principal or assistant principal
• Possession of or eligible for New York State Licensure (SDL, SBA, SBL, SDA)

Desired Qualities:

• A calm and focused instructional leader with high expectations for staff, students, and self
• An educator committed to child-centered principles of leadership, bolstered by personal integrity
• A team player who will develop and nurture systems for seeking and providing feedback
• A hands-on team member who is highly visible within the school community
• An advocate for educational equity, capable of leading others to bring about enhanced outcomes for every student through culturally responsive and sustaining school programs
• A model learner who promotes professional learning for self and others

Essential Knowledge Areas:

• Whole-child development and social-emotional learning
• Student centered literacy instruction using a readers and writers workshop model
• Innovative mathematics and integration across STEAM
• Response to Intervention, including creative problem-solving to provide social-emotional, behavioral, and academic support and growth
• Parent and family engagement with and for all of the school’s communities
• Effective elementary scheduling