SPPS School Leadership Eligibility Pool

Process - Principal
STEP 1: On-line Application STEP 2: Eligibility Interview

✓ Please attach the following in ✓ Thirty (30) minute group

ONE Document: article discussion

✓ Resume ✓ Thirty (30) minute in-basket

activity
✓ Letter of Intent
✓ Forty-five (45) minute
✓ Two (2) Leadership structured interview with
Experience Essays (500 panel
word max.)
*Current SPPS principals interested in 2019-20 principal vacancies will not need to apply to the principal eligibility pool.

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 SPPS School Leadership Eligibility Pool Process -
Assistant Principal
STEP 1: On-line Application STEP 2: Eligibility Interview

✓ Please attach the following in ✓ Thirty (30) minute in-basket

ONE Document:
activity
✓ Resume
✓ Forty-five (45) minute structured
✓ Letter of Intent
interview with panel

✓ One (1) Leadership Experience

Essay (500 word max.)
*Current SPPS asst. principals interested in 2019-20 AP Vacancies will not need to apply to the AP eligibility pool.

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Application Requirements:
Applications will consistent of the following (in ONE document):

✓ Resume
• Please include work history to include dates, titles, organization and
key responsibilities.
✓ Letter of Intent
• Please include why you aspire to be a leader ( Principal/Assistant
Principal) in SPPS and how your education and experience has
prepared for this role.
✓ Leadership Experience Essay(s) (500 word max. per essay)
• See 2 next slides for details

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Application Requirements (continued):
Essay 1 (Principal and Assistant Principal Candidates):
Describe a time when you developed and implemented an initiative that resulted in student
achievement gains. (The example could range in scope from an initiative that you implemented in your
classroom to a school-wide program.) In your response, address the following:

- Student performance when you started the initiative

- Specific, measurable student performance results/outcomes related to this initiative
- Specific instructional strategies you used (or helped your teachers use), including:
- Your rationale for selecting those strategies
- How you met the needs of your students
- Any adjustments you made along the way to help your students achieve the goals.
- Lessons you learned throughout the initiative

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Application Requirements (continued):

Essay 2 (Principal Candidates Only:)

Describe your experience in the last 3 years demonstrating

how your actions positively impacted school culture and
climate. In your response, please use the STAR format
(Situation/Task, Action, and Results).

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Key Dates:
Accepting Applications Jan. 21 – Feb. 15 Feb. 18 – March 8

Eligibility Pool Interviews Week of Feb. 25 Week of March 25

School Interviews Week of April 8 & April 15 Week of April 22 & April 29
(specific vacancies)

School Surveys April N/A

Selection Interviews with Week of April 22 Week of May 6

Supt./Asst. Supt.

Offers Extended Week of April 29 Week of May 13

Announcements Week of May 6 Week of May 20