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About Spring Lake Park Schools Welcome to Spring Lake Park Schools! We are a vibrant school community serving about 5,800 students from the suburbs of Blaine, Fridley and Spring Lake Park, in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Our district purpose — ‘High expectations, high achievement for all. No excuses’ provides our focus to meet the unique and varied needs of each student. Spring Lake Park Schools is recognized for our commitment to personalized learning, creating a culture of innovation and creativity through human-centered design thinking. We are working to create a system a culture with a methodology and set of processes where teachers and staff have the freedom, flexibility and invitation to design new ways of learning centered around deepening student engagement to continuously improve student success. Position Overview The successful candidate will be an individual who …firmly believes: *all students can and will learn, and that their learning can be directly influenced by focusing on factors over which we have control; *in the need to work interdependently with teachers, school, and district leaders throughout the system, aligning the work of adults around improving student learning by meeting the needs, interests, and aspirations of students; *in the need to work in partnership with staff to continuously improve practices to enhance student and family engagement, creating the conditions for equity, excellence and student success; and *in personalizing learning for students, meeting academic, social, and emotional needs and aspirations so that each student feels valued and has a sense of belonging, leading to academic success …has demonstrated: *a commitment to being a visible instructional leader, consistently engaging in effective, ongoing communication with staff, students, and community, valuing varying insights in planning and decision-making; *the ability to effectively lead and manage school improvement design, planning, and professional learning, creating a learner-centered, change-adept school culture; *an interest and ability to capitalize on the creativity of staff, supporting the development and implementation of innovative practices focused on personalizing learning to dramatically improve student engagement and learning; *the ability to develop and lead an effective school-wide approach to positive behavior supports, developing self-directed learners in a safe, welcoming, and enriching learning environment; *success with master scheduling, as well as creatively utilizing resources time, human, and fiscal – to enhance student, teacher, and staff success; *successful implementation of multi-tiered systems of support, including research-based intervention and enrichment opportunities, increasing the achievement with diverse student populations; *a commitment to personal professional learning and development through a strong understanding of research and literature related to education, student learning, organizational and school change, and leadership; *outstanding abilities in written and oral communication, human resource management, and school operations; and *effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a tool to improve student achievement and manage work