WHSN0378267-0000
2026-07-01T00:00:00
2026-06-05T00:00:00
Anticipated Opening July 1, 2026 Principal – Cornwell Avenue School Are you ready to lead a transformative educational journey that empowers students and staff to become lifelong learners, thinkers, and creators? Cornwell Avenue School seeks a visionary Principal who will foster an environment where foundational skills are developed and strengthened, while nurturing the curiosity, creativity, and confidence that inspire lifelong learning. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to develop a culture that grounds students in the essential literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills they need, while apprenticing staff and students into a love of learning that will carry them forward. If you're passionate about nurturing the potential of every young learner and shaping the future of education from its very foundation, we invite you to apply. If you are interested, here is what year one is all about. For a Principal of Cornwell Avenue School, this is the stuff of dreams—helping create and initiate a vision that will allow students and staff to fulfill their potential. Develop a culture where staff and students begin their apprenticeship into expertise. For our youngest learners in Grades 1-3, this means first building and solidifying foundational skills in reading, writing, and mathematics, while nurturing curiosity and a sense of wonder that will grow into the inquiry-based, generative, and unconstrained knowledge development that defines our district's vision. Implement and support an organizational design that lays the groundwork for mastery, identity, and creativity. In Grades 1-3, this begins with ensuring students develop solid foundational knowledge and skills—becoming readers, writers, mathematicians, scientists, and historians from the very start—building a strong sense of themselves as capable and curious learners whose identities are inseparable from what they are learning and doing, and creating early opportunities to apply and produce rather than simply receive, even as they are still acquiring the core building blocks that will fuel deeper creativity and expression in the years ahead. Prioritize student academic growth and achievement through multiple measures, including standardized test scores, early literacy and numeracy screeners, student progress monitoring data, and other developmental assessments. For Grades 1-3, this means a particular focus on foundational skill attainment milestones—ensuring every student is on a trajectory toward grade-level proficiency and beyond. Set clear academic goals rooted in the science of reading, early mathematics, and foundational learning. Monitor and evaluate curriculum implementation, provide meaningful feedback and support to teachers and staff, and ensure the use of research-based instructional practices that establish strong academic roots while preparing students for the increasing independence, inquiry, and critical thinking expected in the upper grades. Engage families and the broader community in the educational process. For Grades 1-3, this includes helping families understand the foundational skills their children are building, equipping them to support that learning at home, and fostering community partnerships that extend and reinforce the school day. This can involve facilitating open communication, organizing parent education programs, leveraging community resources, and building partnerships with local organizations and businesses. While appropriate certification is an essential requirement, we are ultimately seeking a leader who can bring a vision to life and inspire others to work toward it. The successful candidate needs to understand what good instruction is and what it looks like, and be able to take educated risks that allow students and staff to fulfill their potential. We want someone who has a vision, is collaborative, and will consider both first- and second-order consequences. While this is all about year one and beyond, day one is good, too. These are things like compensation, the District, the staff, and the location. However, none of this matters unless "Year One and Beyond" makes career sense for you. Desired Skills and Experience If you can accomplish the above, you have what it takes. Realistically, you need the proper certification and hands-on knowledge of state standards, State assessments, special education, and English as a new language. If you have it, you know why. If you do not, ask someone who does, and if they think you can do the work or they will help you through it, let's talk. NYS Certification is Required Qualified candidates should submit a letter of interest, updated resume, and certification by June 5, 2026 online at www.olasjobs.org: Daniel Rehman, Superintendent West Hempstead UFSD 252 Chestnut Street West Hempstead, NY 11552 E.O.E.
School Leader
West Hempstead UFSD
Long Island
Fixed