With offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, American Education Advisors is recruiting a Head of School (PK-12) for one of our partner schools in China. Classes are conducted in English and start late August. APPLY TODAY!

POSITION SUMMARY

The Head of School provides leadership, management and supervisory skills that promote learning for each student. They lead others and stand for the ideas and values that help to develop globally competent citizens. They are stewards for learning – student learning, staff learning, and parent learning. They provide a clear vision, inspiration, energy and insight for all stakeholders in an enlightening and high functioning school community. They are focused on nurturing global citizens for an active role in society. The Head of School is a conveyor of best practices, a catalyst for learning, and a protector of the whole child. They are attentive to habits of mind, data driven decision-making, the change process, accountability, conflict resolution, team building, and a well-organized school. They have a set of beliefs and a skill set that guides the school in day-to-day operations to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of all students, staff, and families. The Head of School orchestrates a complex, dynamic, and collaborative learning community each and every day where students and student learning are always the central focus.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Living A Mission, Vision, and Beliefs Focused on Results:

- Creates and implements a vision that leads to student improvement for all learners
- Develops shared vision of rigor and high expectations
- Ensures vision and mission drive school decisions
- Confronts low expectations
- Conducts crucial conversations based on student performance data for purpose of enhancing student learning

2. Leading and Managing Systems Change:

- Develops, implements and monitors outcomes of school improvement plan and student achievement data to improve student learning
- Creates safe, clean, orderly learning environment
- Collaborates with staff to achieve school improvement plan targets
- Utilizes current technologies to support leadership and management functions
- Aligns resources to improve teaching and learning

3. Improving Teaching and Learning:

- Works with and engages staff in shared vision for effective teaching and learning by implementing a standards-based curriculum, relevant to student needs and interests, research-based effective practice, academic rigor, and high expectations for student learning in every classroom
- Implements curricular scope and sequence
- Reviews instructional practices
- Creates a continuous improvement cycle
- Implements data-guided decisions
- Implements data-guided instruction
- Selects and retains teachers that maximize student learning
- Evaluates the effectiveness of teaching and holds teachers accountable
- Ensures professional learning for teachers that enhance student learning
- Promotes use of technology to enhance student learning

4. Building and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships:

- Creates, develops and sustains relationships that result in active student engagement in the learning process
- Utilizes meaningful feedback of students, staff, families, and community in the evaluation of school programs and policies
- Proactively engages families and communities in support of child’s learning and school learning goals
- Demonstrates an understanding of the change process
- Strengthens collaboration with other schools, as well as local, regional, national and international communities
- Develops professional learning networks within the school, as well as local, regional, national and international communities

5. Leading with Integrity and Professionalism:

- Treats all people fairly and with dignity and respect. Protects the rights and confidentiality of students and staff
- Demonstrates personal and professional standards and conduct that enhance the image of the school and the education profession
- Creates and supports a climate that values, accepts, and understands diversity in culture and point of view
- Recognizes strengths of diverse population
- Creates a culturally responsive climate
- Engages in courageous conversations about diversity
- Expands opportunities for all students to learn from and work with highly qualified and diverse staff

6. Creating and Sustaining a Culture of High Expectations:

- Builds a culture of high aspirations and achievement for every student
- Requires staff and students to demonstrate consistent values and positive behaviors aligned to the school’s vision and mission
- Leads a school culture and environment that successfully develops the full range of student learning capacities – academic, creative, social-emotional, behavioral, and physical
- Builds an environment that considers all aspects of wellness: physical, nutrition, health, safety, decisions and choices, mental as well as physical well-being

SALARY

- $70,000 – $80,000 per year (i.e., 40,000 – 46,000 Chinese Yuan per month)
- $700 – $1,000 is the monthly cost of living

BENEFITS

- FREE housing
- FREE airfare
- FREE health insurance
- FREE meals
- FREE tuition for dependent children
- paid holidays
- paid sick leave
- work visa

QUALIFICATIONS

- Master’s degree in education or related field
- 3 years of school administrative experience
- Individuals over 60 are not eligible due to China's work visa policies.
- Ability to speak Chinese is NOT required.
- Previous experience as an administrator in a school that teaches one/some of the following is a plus, but NOT always required: national curriculum from the U.S., Canada, U.K, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand; International Baccalaureate Programme (PYP, MYP, DP), Advanced Level (A-Level), IGCSE, American Common Core, Advanced Placement (AP)

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