Elementary School Principal

Compensation

With a competitive starting salary, we offer a generous compensation package with an array of benefits including assistance with advanced education.

Position Summary

North Side Community School is seeking an Elementary School Principal to begin June 1, 2025.  If you are an experienced educator with a passion for children of all ages, WE WANT TO MEET YOU! 

The Principal is the educational and culture leader at the school creating and maintaining a positive, safe, and high standards learning environment, supervising building faculty, staff, students and managing all resources in accordance with North Side’s mission, goals, and policies. The Principal provides effective modeling, evaluation, and professional coaching to instructional and support staff; develops and implements professional learning communities, and regularly reviews course specific lesson plans for alignment to core knowledge, skills, and illiteracies. As the school’s lead educator, the Principal is responsible for establishing a positive school climate where each student is treated as an individual, every family is treated as a partner in education, and every staff member is treated as a valued colleague.

Essential Functions

Student Achievement & Instructional Leadership:

• Lead and oversee the school’s instructional program.
• Lead the implementation of an effective behavior management plan emphasizing behavior as learning and leading implementation of a restorative model.
• Analyze data with teams and teachers regularly to maximize scholar performance.
• Ensure that every student shows dramatic achievement gains and that the school meets the ambitious performance goals set by the school’s Board and Executive Director.
• Design and create systems for assessments and the use of assessment results.
• Identify best practice and ensure consistency and a high level of instructional quality in every class, every day, for every scholar.

Staff Development and Evaluation:

• Works with the Curriculum and Instruction Team to ensure the planning of impactful instruction and professional development for all staff.
• Create systems to ensure the proper supervision, observation, support, and evaluation of all school staff.
• Assist with interviewing and selecting staff members that will significantly advance the mission of North Side Community School.

Parent & Community Partnership:

• Cultivate positive relationships with parents and the local community.
• Guarantee consistent, timely, and courteous communication between the school and parents.
• Develop systems and opportunities for parent and community involvement.

Leadership & Management:

• Establishment of a positive school culture
• Ensure that the school runs smoothly, efficiently, and on budget.
• Prepare reports on school and scholar progress.
• Correspond with the Executive Director and provide timely reports on school performance including but not limited to the following: Academic performance, staff morale, enrollment, attendance, assessments, HR matters, and technology.

Skills & Characteristics

• Have at least three years of experience successfully teaching and providing meaningful leadership in an urban or alternative school, including a track record of dramatically improving student achievement.
• Master’s degree in education preferred (or a comparable amount of experience).
• Have experience with teacher coaching and evaluation.
• Be a highly collaborative, results-oriented, adaptable, problem-solving self-starter.
• Embrace using data to inform instructional planning and practice.
• Comfortable analyzing student performance results and working to improve instructional practices.
• Experience in standards-based, backwards planning.
• Experience working in an entrepreneurial, dynamic school or related demanding environment.
• Desire for rigorous, choice-based professional development and coaching with a focus on continuous improvement and instructional effectiveness.
• Be positive, thoughtful, passionate, articulate, motivating, and empowering with students and team members.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be computer savvy, with proficiency in email, word processing, spreadsheets, Google Docs, etc. 

Education and Certification

• Current Missouri Certification for School Leadership.
• Master’s degree in education preferred.
• Three years of school administration experience preferred.

About North Side Community School

Are you a mission driven individual who believes every child deserves an excellent education in a warm, caring, nurturing, and rigorous school environment?  Do you believe every day should be a fresh start for a child? Does the idea of helping children grow, develop, and achieve success despite societal barriers excite you?  If so, North Side Community School may be the perfect place for you!

North Side Community School is a PreK - 8th grade charter public school in the City of St. Louis founded in 2009 with an enrollment of approximately 500 students. The most important word in our name is community. We are a community of small classrooms (15 to 18 students per class), amazing educators, and caring parents working every day to ensure our children succeed!

North Side Community School operates across three campuses (early childhood center, elementary campus, and middle school campus). We are free (no tuition), public, and open to all. North Side consistently provides a high-quality education often ranked as one of the best public schools in the City of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. Most of our students live in the most challenging neighborhoods in St. Louis and 100% of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch. 

Small class sizes, differentiated instruction, individualized attention, and AMAZING educators are the keys to our students' success!

North Side Community School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying to the school. North Side Community School does not discriminate based on race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.