SEZP Principal

Full Time Start Date: Immediately

Salary: $120,000 - $150,000 and commensurate with experience

**Qualified candidates may be eligible for a signing bonus, relocation stipend, or other support. Applicants within and outside of Massachusetts are encouraged to apply**

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 17 middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

Job Details
The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is committed to building anti-racist schools by ensuring the work of equity is fully inclusive of and focused on our students of color, exceptional learners, emerging bilinguals, and all families across our schools. Ensuring maximum equity for both rigor and targeted supports will drive change from within our schools by positioning other school leaders, RTI teams, educators, partners, families, and the students themselves as learners, experts, advocates, visionaries, and activists in anti-racism, equity, and empowerment. The SEZP calls upon a skilled and passionate educator to lead one of our seventeen schools in the development and evolution of systems, supports, oversight, and monitoring for programs serving all scholars and their families in the learning community. 

Job Responsibilities

The Principal will directly oversee leadership team members, staff, and students in transforming teaching, learning, intervention, and professional development to align with our Framework for Equitable Schools. Responsibilities will include:

• Oversees and continuously improves equitable implementation of anti-racist curriculum, instructional programs and support structures to improve student achievement and ensure continual progress
• Provides embedded instructional coaching and feedback that ensures anti-racist practices and approaches are implemented in all classrooms 
• Uses multiple data sources to monitor, assess, identify, and amplify instructional improvements 
• Collaborates with other leaders in the development and implementation of equitable special education, dual language, RTI, and other student support programs and services 
• Collaborates with other leaders and teams to manage and sustain a safe and equitable school environment
• Collaborates with educator teams to develop and deploy rigorous outreach to engage and empower families and the community in student support, instruction and governance
• Establishes an environment of collaboration and empowers and engages staff in participatory decision-making 
• Develops systems and structures for establishing and maintaining anti-racist levers for success including an equitable school schedule, inclusive curriculum that presents a truthful account of history, community, and legacy, and personalized learning plans tailored to student needs, among others

Position Qualifications

• Experience effectively leading teaching, learning, support systems, and/or coaching/professional development required 
• Experience monitoring and evaluating progress and response to interventions/services for students with disabilities, emerging bilinguals, and students with significant provision gaps preferred
• Appropriate educator license from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, current state of employment, or licensure eligibility in MA preferred
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
  
• Bachelor’s degree required

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

We encourage you to reach out to Kelley Gangi at kgangi@springfieldempowerment.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

Benefits
Selection as the Principal recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision, leadership capacity, and commitment to anti-racist school communities. The salary range will be between $120,000 - $150,000, commensurate with experience.  

Application Process
The position will be filled as soon as possible  and applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. Please contact Kelley (kgangi@springfieldempowerment.org) or SEZP@springfieldempowerment.org with any questions.

Nondiscrimination Statement
The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination
Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment.  Springfield Public Schools is required by Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 not to discrimination on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment.  The Senior Administrator of Human Resources, Kathleen O’Sullivan, Springfield Public Schools, 1550 Main St. Springfield MA, 011103, 413-787-7100,  ext. 55428, has been designated as the employee responsible for coordinating Springfield Public Schools efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under Title IX.  Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 to Springfield Public Schools may be referred to Kathleen O’Sullivan or to U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 400 Maryland Ave., SW Washington, DC 20202-1100, telephone 800-421-3481.