Principal or Vice Principal Principal – Vista Ridge High School
Job Description
The POWER Zone in School District 49 is searching for a motivated and dynamic individual to lead Vista Ridge High School, one of 7 schools within Colorado’s largest unified Innovation Zone. Vista Ridge High School has excellent teachers and a history of both strong academic growth as well as competitive sports, visual and performing arts, and other extracurricular programming.
Vista Ridge is one of only 11 high schools in the nation to receive the Marzano High Reliability Schools Level 1 and 2 designations. Vista Ridge is deeply committed to ensuring all students have opportunities to be engaged in their educational journey. This means that Vista Ridge’s career and academic planning is individualized down to the individual student level. Pathway learning, where students first explore various learning opportunities and then begin to focus on particular areas of interest by graduation, is at the heart of this work. Concurrent enrollment, work based learning, and career and technical education opportunities all support this commitment.
Vista Ridge is actively working on creating increased online and blended programming options in order to provide increased opportunity for more flexible on campus and off campus learning options as well as increased course offerings and pathway opportunities. This is evolving work that will continue to develop over the next few years.
Please send any questions regarding the position to Mike Pickering, POWER Zone Superintendent, at mpickering@d49.org.
District 49 is a progressive, rapidly growing district in eastern Colorado Springs. Home to more than 23,000 students and 2,000 staff members, District 49 aims to be the best choice to learn, work and lead. As one of five strategic priorities, District 49 commits to provide individualized educational experiences that launch every student toward success. District 49 is a challenging and stimulating place to lead. As part of our commitment to innovate, we host a robust portfolio of conventional, charter, online, and blended schools, including homeschool support as well as career and technical education.
