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 Seeking a Uniquely Talented Principal
Heritage Preparatory School is seeking an inspired and experienced educational leader who is interested in filling the newly established position of Principal. The Principal will report directly to the Head of School to further the overall mission of Heritage Preparatory School. The Principal will respond actively and appropriately to parent concerns that are related to the educational program of the school. While given significant responsibility, the Principal will work in close collaboration with the Head of School and other members of the school’s administrative team. Servant leadership is highly valued for this position. Responsibilities for the new Principal will include administrating the total educational program and running the day to day operations, including instructional, curricular and staff development.
Qualifications include exemplary oral and written communication skills, strong interest and capabilities in admissions and multi-community relations, successful experience in faculty development. The Principal at Heritage Preparatory School must love children and feel called to serve in an environment with a Christian worldview. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a warm, friendly, and classical Christ-centered community. Salary is competitive and commensurate with background and qualifications.
The School
Heritage Preparatory School is a Christian school dedicated to a vision of education that is rooted in the Truth of God’s Word. As an independent school, without institutional ties to any church or denomination, HPS remains committed to what C.S. Lewis called "Mere Christianity": "no insipid inter-denominational transparency, but something positive, self-consistent, and inexhaustible." This school holds to those Orthodox truths which have united Christians through the ages, across the boundaries of time, place, race, denomination, and tradition.
The mission of Heritage Preparatory School is to provide academically able students with a challenging educational experience designed to help them know, love and practice that which is true, good and excellent and to prepare them to live purposefully and intelligently in the service of God and man.
At Heritage, an understanding of God as Creator and of His saving purposes in Jesus Christ undergirds all teaching and conduct. The school’s leadership believes a distinctly Christian education should place special emphasis on the following:
- Lordship – Honoring the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all things. Acknowledging that all truth, all beauty - everything in all creation - was created by Him, reflects Him, is sustained by Him, and exists for Him.
- Worldview – Teaching from a rich curriculum that communicates and is held together by an orthodox, Biblical view of the world.
Wisdom – Applying Biblical truth to all of life so that the heart and mind of a student, quickened by the Holy Spirit, might know, love, and obey God.
- Excellence – Doing everything with vigor and industry, as an act of worship to our God, with all our heart, mind, and strength.
Heritage seeks to nurture young people who have a genuine love of learning, who are equipped to live as vibrant Christians in their various callings, and who can articulate and defend the Christian message with clarity, creativity, and conviction.
History of the School
Heritage Preparatory School of Georgia opened in 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, with 15 students and has since grown to an enrollment of 124 students. Heritage is an independent school, allowing it to chart its own course free of denominational challenges and financial dependence upon a specific church.
In 2003, the school moved to its new location on Montgomery Ferry Road in Atlanta, where the school’s offices and Classes Pre-K- 8th grade are housed. With the addition of 8th grade a complete middle school program is now in place. Not only are the academics second to none with the teaching of Latin, logic and a curriculum rich in science, literature, history, and math, but where the social environment is healthy.
The 12-acre campus features a main school building with over 16,000 square feet of space, including classrooms, a media center, science, art, and nature studies rooms, and a computer lab. The campus also offers a full size gymnasium, a beautiful sanctuary, and outdoor playgrounds and courtyards. Heritage will be renovating additional buildings on the property in the near future. Construction will be completed February 2008 on a new regulation soccer field, which will include a nature trail that circles the property.
The school’s 125 students follow a carefully planned academic program influenced by the ideas of Charlotte Mason. With a student teacher ratio of 10:1, Heritage Preparatory provides the finest education possible. Faculty members seek to inspire and challenge their students in a warm friendly and diverse family environment. Heritage believes in the significance of family time and involvement in the adventure of learning. The school’s shorter-than-average school days allow students more time at home for work and with their families, as well as for extracurricular activities. Parental involvement is strongly encouraged.
Membership and Accreditation
Heritage is a member of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, Association of Christian Schools International and is completing accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Atlanta
Metropolitan Atlanta sprawls over 20 counties and approximately 100 cities and towns. More than five million people live and work in the Atlanta area and Atlanta is the 9th largest metro area in the United States. Atlanta proper is a city of 136 square miles and 498,109 residents. Within the confines of the Perimeter, a transportation band that encircles the city, there is a diverse range of neighborhoods, each with its own personality and character.
Atlanta offers traditional appeal with a modern elegance. Filled with attractions and activities, including the brand new Georgia Aquarium, the biggest indoor aquarium in the world, Atlanta Cyclorama, World of Coca-Cola, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, CNN Studio Tours, the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District, Six Flags Over Georgia, Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta Botanical Garden, and major league sports teams. The metro area’s five largest area universities are Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and Georgia Perimeter College and Kennesaw State University.
The Head of School
Rev. Dr. W. Davies Owens Head of School Heritage Preparatory School, a native Atlantan, he attended both public and private schools in the city including Morris Brandon, Westminster and Woodward Academy. He was an honors graduate at Woodward. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Furman University, a Master of Divinity from Duke University, and a doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He was the Executive Director and co-founder of BlueSky Ministries, a rapidly expanding international ministry that serves as an “innovation center” to equip churches and para-church ministries around the world with strategies and tools to more effectively engage and serve people today.
An ordained minister, Dr. Owens conducted his doctoral work in the area of leadership and community development after more than a dozen years in local church ministry in North Carolina, Florida and Georgia. He also spent time in California serving as the Director of Business Development for Christianity.com, where he spoke around the country to church leadership about appropriate uses of technology in reaching the culture. He has also spent extensive time studying at L’Abri Fellowship, an international Christian study center in Switzerland and England. He and his wife Holly, who have been married almost fifteen years, have three children. They have been an active part of the Heritage community for the last five years, including Dr. Owens role on the board of Trustees for the past three years.
CrossChalk
CrossChalk, LLC, is committed to serving Christian schools by finding the absolute best professional leaders. CrossChalk.com provides an online database for teachers seeking employment to connect with top quality Christian schools. This web site also enables school administrators to streamline the process of recruiting and hiring. In this search for Heritage Preparatory School, CrossChalk seeks the best possible candidate to work closely with the Head of School to achieve a distinctive vision. This search is for an innovative, energetic, and experienced educational leader who will enthusiastically embrace the schools mission.
Application
All interested applicants must complete an online application via CrossChalk.com. Interviews will be conducted winter of 2008. Please do not contact Heritage Preparatory School directly.
Scott Smith
CrossChalk
3000 Old Alabama Road
Suite 119-604
Alpharetta, GA 30022
770-616-8549
scottsmith@CrossChalk.com
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Heritage Preparatory School is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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