Main Responsibilities Of A Charter School Principal At Middle School
Alma's main responsibilities as a charter school principal encompassed "all aspects of the school," including operations, instruction, curriculum, and compliance—a role that built upon Alma's prior experience as a director of operations. A key focus was instructional improvement, specifically devising methods to address student learning gaps while maintaining grade-level standards, demonstrating a commitment to effective teaching and learning.
Instruction and Curriculum Development, School Operations and Management, Compliance and Reporting, Personnel Management and Hiring, Problem-Solving and Leadership
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Alma Zepeda
Charter School Principal and Administrator
Middle School
Yale College 2012
Johns Hopkins School of Education, MS in Elementary Education, 2015
Political Science, American Studies
Education
Operations and Project Management
International Student, Took Out Loans
Video Highlights
1. Oversees all aspects of the school including operations, instruction, curriculum, and compliance.
2. Focuses on instruction and curriculum, devising ways to address student learning gaps and bring them up to grade level.
3. Manages school operations, including nutrition, transportation, after-school programs, and hiring the right staff.
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What are your main responsibilities within your role?
Absolutely. As a charter school principal in my last year, I oversaw all aspects of the school. This included operations, instruction, curriculum, and compliance. At the principal level, you're really overlooking a lot of compliance.
The district has many requests for reportables that you have to submit quarterly. This takes a good portion of time. However, the things I enjoyed the most were really instruction and curriculum. That was a passion.
That's what really drove me into administration: math curriculum, instruction, and how to devise a way to instruct students who had large gaps in their understanding of the curriculum. It was about addressing that grade level and figuring out how to work backward to get their understanding up to grade level.
Operations is also a huge part. A principal indirectly sees operations. There's typically a director of operations or someone doing that. I was a director of operations before being a principal, so I knew that role very well. Essentially, that includes nutrition, making sure kids have food, how they get on campus, and the bus schedule. Does it all make sense and fit together with your program? Do you have an after-school program?
I would say the last part of this would be hiring and making sure you have the right people in the building.
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