Middle School DirectorPrincipal (SY 25-26)

School Directors at Great Oaks Legacy Charter School serve as the instructional and cultural leaders of their campuses. They set the vision for teaching and learning develop and manage high-performing teams and ensure every student receives an excellent equitable education. School Directors embody and model our core values of Respect Optimism Excellence and Understanding in all interactions with students staff and families.

School Directors spend the majority of their time on instructional leadership building teacher capacity driving academic outcomes and ensuring that high-quality instruction is the norm in every classroom. They steward the student experience cultivate a joyful and inclusive culture partner with families as true collaborators and lead the systems that enable their schools to thrive. School Directors are accountable for the overall performance growth and well-being of their school communities.

Instructional Leadership

• Serves as the primary instructional leader of the school ensuring rigorous standards-aligned instruction across all grade levels and subject areas.
• Demonstrates deep expertise in high-quality instruction and leverages this knowledge to set and maintain an uncompromising bar for teaching and learning school-wide.
• Leads a coherent data-driven instructional vision ensuring that all teachers receive weekly coaching actionable feedback and measurable goals aligned to student outcomes.
• Facilitates instructional walkthroughs formal observations and real-time coaching to build teacher capacity and accelerate student achievement.
• Partners closely with Network Leadership to analyze achievement trends inform strategic academic priorities and ensure teachers are consistently prepared through high-quality unit and lesson preparation.
• Utilizes school-wide data systems to monitor progress identify gaps and drive instructional decisions; ensures staff are fluent in analyzing data and responding to it.
• Designs and leads high-quality professional development that results in improved teacher practice and measurable student growth.
• Ensures a strong testing environment compliance and implementation for all state and network assessments in partnership with Operations and Academic teams.

Student Culture

Staff Culture & Leadership

Family & Community Engagement

School Operations & Strategic Leadership

Qualifications

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COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School offers competitive salaries commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits package including :

We offer a competitive and fair compensation package that increases based on years of relevant experience.

ABOUT GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School (GOLCS) is a free open-enrollment public charter school system in Newark New Jersey educating students from Pre-K to 12th grade. Our mission is to prepare every student for college success. GOLCS currently educates more than 2100 students across seven campuses in the greater Newark area.

We provide all children with the support they need - inclusive of resources that acknowledge and address systemic inequities - to be empowered to thrive. We bridge the educational opportunity gap by supporting rigorous academics with daily individualized tutoring within a community committed to supporting equity and diversity.

These three principles guide our work every day in support of our students and mission :

Setting and exceeding high expectations for academic growth and character development for all students in preparation for success in college and beyond.

DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION & ACCESSIBILITY

GOLCS is committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. Furthermore we believe that racial justice and equity is critical to our mission of preparing students for success in college and beyond. We strive to be an organization that is diverse equitable inclusive and elevates our student voices in preparing them for life and college.

GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL VACCINATION POLICY

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School is committed to ensuring healthy and safe working and learning environments and maintaining our educational commitment to GOLCS students and families - with minimal disruption to instruction. With this in mind as of October 2021 Great Oaks Legacy requires vaccination against COVID-19 for all employees. Candidates who would like to apply for a reasonable accommodation from this policy based on a qualifying disability or sincerely held religious belief should reach out to for more information.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT

Great Oaks Legacy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Early Childhood Education,Infant Care,Classroom Experience,Lesson Planning,Preschool Experience,Special Education,Teaching,Administrative Experience,Child Protective Services,Childhood Development,Experience with Children,Toddler Care

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1