Posted: 05-Jun-25
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
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Park Street School is located in the heart of Boston’s historic Beacon Hill neighborhood and offers a continuous, integrated, Christian-based learning environment to students from toddler to grade six. Exemplifying a Christian worldview, Park Street School is an equal opportunity employer and is continuously striving to maintain a faculty and staff with varying backgrounds and cultural experiences. Park Street School offers competitive benefits, generous time off, and a meaningful work environment with like-minded colleagues.
Position Summary
The Principal of the Elementary School is a member of the leadership team and provides administrative and strategic oversight in developing, achieving, and maintaining the best educational programs and services for students, Kindergarten through Grade 6; responsible for the implementation and completion of short and long-term educational plans; responsible to lead the growth and development of educational services throughout the school; maintains close day-to-day supervision/interaction with teachers; combines strategic thinking and strong execution skills across all education content areas and works within the policies, regulations and objectives outlined by the Head of School; will ensure that effective education management practices are in place and used across all grade levels.
Primary Responsibilities
Staff Support and Oversight
- Oversee and coordinate hiring
- Review job descriptions
- Coordinate posting of positions
- Review applications, interview candidates and conduct reference checks
- Bring top candidates to HOS for review
- Inform community of appointment and notify finalists who do not receive an offer
- Oversee onboarding of new faculty
- Oversee and support teachers
- Plan and coordinate monthly staff meetings, collaboration and professional development days with educational team
- Meet with academic teams at least monthly
- Oversee professional growth, development, evaluation and retention of teaching faculty
- Solicit professional development with educational team
- Ensure implementation and required training of curriculum
- Manage annual professional development budget, including grant, and maintain record of professional development experiences
- Conduct observations and complete yearly evaluations with support educational team
Program Oversight
- Lead next school placement
- Provide next school placement presentations for parents with administrative team
- With administrative team, conduct individual next school placement meetings with parents and administrative team
- With administrative team, coordinate student support with next school placement, including mock interviews
- Write administrator recommendations and oversee teacher recommendations
- Process for applications, ISEE, etc.
- Individual meetings to discuss right fit
- Support parents
- Manage parent requests for teachers, consult teachers and educational support team regarding their recommendations, coordinate student classroom assignments
- Manage and respond to parents concerns about teachers and program
- Monitor student absences and manage student leaves
- In consultation with teachers and educational support team (and HOS when needed) inform parents when concerns arise about a student’s behavior
- Support students
- Oversee and manage the implementation of each student’s academic program
- Work with students when behavioral issues arise
- With teachers and staff monitor student progress and proactively engage parents when concerns arrive
- Develop, oversee and assess curriculum and program-based events such as Evening of the Arts, Grade 4/5 Adventure, Christmas & Spring Concerts, Sixth Grade Graduation, History and Science Fair, as well as support various admissions events
- Manage scheduling and program decisions
Requirements and Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a supervisory/administrative capacity
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a classroom teacher
- Reflective practitioner who demonstrates continued growth professionally
- Experience using data and research to drive decision making
- Ability to interpret data and evaluate instructional programs and teaching effectiveness
- Collaborative leadership style - committed to work collaboratively with administration, teachers, students, and parents
- Strong organizational, communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Evening and weekend availability to support special events
Compensation
- This is a full-time position
- Salary is commensurate with experience, with a very competitive benefit package