Associate Administrator

Welcome to West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area Schools, also known as School District 197! Our district is comprised of eight close-knit schools that serve more than 5,000 students from the communities of Eagan, Inver Grove Heights, Lilydale, Mendota, Mendota Heights, Sunfish Lake, and West St. Paul in Minnesota. 

School District 197 is fortunate to have a vibrant school community filled with a variety of academic, athletic, and artistic opportunities for students at every age, from early learning to grade 12. 

School District 197 is committed to working with parents and families to improve learning and achievement for all students. Research shows that when schools and families work together to support learning, everyone benefits — students do better in school and in life, parents become empowered, teacher morale improves, schools get better and communities grow stronger.  

Heritage E-STEM Middle School

Heritage E-STEM (Environment, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Magnet School serves students in grades 5-8. Teachers at Heritage use STEM concepts, along with projects and field experiences related to the environment, to help students learn in new and interesting ways. The result is inquisitive learners, problem solvers, and environmental stewards who can see connections between school and real life.

Position Details:

Position:  Associate Administrator

Location:  Heritage Middle School

FTE:         1.0 

 Schedule:  230 days per year

The Associate Administrator is responsible for helping staff establish a safe, positive and respectful school culture in which students are supported and are recognized for excellence.  The Associate Administrator will work in a highly visible leadership capacity to maintain a supportive, productive, and enriching school culture. The Associate Administrator will play an instrumental role in establishing and reinforcing high expectations for an actively engaging learning environment. The Associate administrator will maintain consistent and constructive communication with teachers, principals, students and student families in an effort to ensure that school culture norms are effectively defined and reinforced. The Associate Administrator will support teachers in their development of creating a culture of learning and an environment of respect and rapport.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as an active member of the school’s building leadership team;
• Setting measurable goals for the upcoming academic year and plan ways to make them a part of school culture;
• Lead and coordinate schoolwide assessments; act as School Assessment Coordinator;
• Support the student registration and master scheduling process;
• Serve on school and district committees as directed by principal;
• Serve as site leader and liaison to district office for AVID;
• Responsible for coordinating and supporting student attendance, behavior, and crisis-intervention plans to achieve site identified goals;
• Facilitating the school’s PBIS processes;
• Proactively construct a positive student culture and mitigate disciplinary infractions before they occur;
• Educating students, staff, and families regarding the handbook guidelines, and holding all constituents accountable for adhering to the handbook;
• Creating community by leading restorative and responsive practices, student groups/circles and student celebrations;
• Serving as a behavior coach for teachers;
• Analyzing data for needs, and evaluating the issues around classroom management, classroom procedures, and other identified areas;
• Seeking to study, review, and share related research materials and documents to increase understanding around the classroom environment;
• Facilitating faculty and staff professional development related to school culture, restorative practices, consistent implementation of PBIS, and social-emotional support for students;
• Using knowledge of students and families and their diverse needs to ensure equitable healthy and effective responses to student needs;
• Supporting faculty and parents in creating intervention plans and individual behavioral contracts and helping to monitor student progress with those plans;
• Assisting with the coordination of Intervention meetings as well as grade level or department student themed meetings;
• Serving as an administrative designee for Child Study and IEP meetings;
• Coordinating supervision of cafeteria, and passing time; and
• Designing, attending and participating in events outside of normal school hours, and performing such other duties as the school may reasonably assign from time to time.

 Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Professional Administration License 
• Minimum two years working with school-aged children;
• Ability to work collaboratively and cross-culturally with a racially and culturally diverse community of learners and families;
• Strong communications skills;
• Mature judgment and stability under stress;
• Demonstrated potential for instructional leadership; and
• Ability and desire to work with school and district staff to address opportunity, access, and achievement gaps.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hold or be in the process of obtaining an education license.
• Master’s degree in education or related field.