The DCPS School Planning team has been working with the Family and Public Engagement and School Leader and Recruitment Teams to engage northern Ward 4 about the ideal school leader for New North MS.
DCPS has gathered feedback from stakeholders on the qualities and experiences to prioritize in the ideal school leader, as well as hopes and dreams for New North MS.
The DCPS school planning team has meet with parents and families at each education campus throughout Fall 2018.
Across all four EC communities, DCPS has learned that parents and families are looking for an experienced leader of middle school students who has prior knowledge about the area and DCPS, including experience building relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds.
Themes that resonated across all 4 education campuses include that the New North MS Principal should be a person who is:
- A leader with demonstrated success in building strong relationships amongst students, parents and families across various socioeconomic and language backgrounds.
- A candidate who has experience as either an AP and/or with middle school aged students.
- A candidate who has some knowledge and/or experience with DC Public Schools, including DCPS central office.
- A candidate who has knowledge of or has experience related to the challenges schools in Northern Ward 4 face.
- A candidate who is to be able to navigate the large DCPS organization and collaborate with superiors at DCPS to advocate for the school’s needs and challenges.
DCPS has convened a community panel of representatives from each New North MS feeder community that will inform the principal selection process. This community panel will conduct panel interviews with 3-5 final candidates for the principal position. The community panel will develop and select the questions they will use in their interviews. After the interviews, the panel provides feedback on the candidates to inform DCPS’ final decision on the principal selection.
On November 8, 2018, New North MS panel members came together to brainstorm questions that they would like to ask candidates.
Pictures are posted below and you can find the presentation from the meeting here
DCPS School Planning 