Principal - Breithaupt Career and Technical Center

DPSCD Comp; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Detroit Public Schools Community District seeks a Principal for Breithaupt Career and Technical Center to provide visionary, ethical, and strategic leadership for a high school redesign focused on career and technical education. The principal will lead high-quality CTE pathways that connect students to high-skill, high-demand, and high-wage careers.

You will ensure instructional quality, student access and outcomes, talent development, and strong partnerships with industry, postsecondary, and

Qualifications

• Master's Degree required with 20 semester hours in School Administration, Supervision, Curriculum, and School Finance.
• State of Michigan Administrator Certification is required.
• Must possess a valid Michigan Teacher Certificate for the level being sought.
• CTE leadership and instructional experience preferred.
• Experience supervising, coaching, and evaluating instructional staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary, ethical, and accountable leadership for CTE programs.
• Lead CTE teaching and learning by aligning curriculum and standards.
• Drive continuous improvement using program data and credential attainment metrics.
• Recruit, develop, evaluate, and retain high-quality CTE educators.
• Build and sustain partnerships with employers, postsecondary institutions, and community groups.

Skills

Visionary leadership

Curriculum alignment

Staff development

Education

Master's Degree in Education Administration or related

State of Michigan Administrator Certification

Michigan Teacher Certificate for the level

Job description

Principal - Breithaupt Career and Technical Center

Location: Breithaupt Career and Technical Center

Salary: $111,364.00 annually

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent of High School Redesign

Bargaining Unit: N/A

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Position Summary

The principal provides visionary, ethical, and strategic leadership for a Career and Technical Center, advancing the District's High School Redesign vision to ensure every student graduates with a plan, pathway, and purpose. The principal leads high-quality, future-focused CTE pathways that connect students to high-skill, high-demand, and high-wage careers.

The principal is accountable for instructional and program quality, student access and outcomes, talent development, operational and fiscal stewardship, compliance, and strategic partnerships that prepare students to earn industry-recognized credentials and successfully transition to postsecondary education, apprenticeship, and the workforce.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree (inclusive of 20 semester hours in School Administration, Supervision, Curriculum, and School Finance)
• State of Michigan Administrator Certification
• Must possess a valid Michigan Teacher Certificate for the level being sought
• Previous experience as a CTE occupational teacher at the secondary or post-secondary level preferred
• Demonstrated successful experience in school leadership, instructional leadership, CTE, or career-connected learning.
• Experience supervising, coaching, and evaluating instructional staff.

Preferred

• Previous experience as a CTE administrator, CTE occupational teacher, career center leader, or related career-connected learning leader.
• Knowledge of Michigan CTE/OCTE requirements, Perkins V, state-approved CTE programs, CTE funding and compliance, and CTE data and reporting systems.
• Experience developing partnerships with business, industry, labor, apprenticeship programs, and postsecondary institutions.

Essential Functions

• Provide visionary, ethical, and accountable leadership for CTE programs, modeling integrity and sound professional judgment while establishing high expectations for student achievement, technical skill attainment, industry-recognized credentials, career readiness, and postsecondary success.
• Lead CTE teaching and learning by aligning curriculum, instruction, assessment, technical competencies, industry standards, credentials, work-based learning, and professional development.
• Drive continuous improvement using student achievement, enrollment, attendance, retention, completion, credential attainment, and program-quality data to improve outcomes and program relevance.
• Recruit, develop, evaluate, and retain high-quality CTE educators, including appropriately certified or authorized professionals transitioning from industry into teaching.
• Build a strong CTE student pipeline by expanding career awareness and exposure for middle school and grades 9-10 students and strengthening recruitment, transition, enrollment, retention, and completion across CTE pathways.
• Ensure compliance with Michigan state-approved CTE program requirements, Perkins V, CTEIS reporting, CIP Self-Review, TRAC, occupational licensing, and applicable state and federal requirements.
• Ensure CTE facilities and learning environments including laboratories, shops, equipment, technology, and materials; meet instructional, industry, safety, accessibility, and regulatory standards.
• Manage school and program resources in alignment with instructional priorities and District, Perkins, Section 61a(1), grant, and other applicable funding requirements.
• Build and sustain partnerships with employers, labor, apprenticeship programs, postsecondary institutions, advisory committees, and community organizations to strengthen program quality and expand career-connected and work-based learning opportunities.
• Lead school culture and operationswith integrity, transparency, accountability, and sound stewardship to ensure a safe, professional, student-centered environment reflective of workplace expectations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Security Clearance

Internal Applicants

If you are a current Detroit Public Schools Community District employee, you do not have to submit to a new security clearance, unless your new role requires a different type of criminal background check.

External Applicants

In alignment with Michigan law, if you are hired to fill a position, you will be required to submit to a Detroit Public Schools Community District criminal background check. Information regarding required background checks will be shared at point of hire.

Method of Application

Applicants must apply through the online application system. Only applications submitted through the online application system will be considered for any posted position and all applications require a resume to be considered.

Successful candidates are required to submit official transcript(s) at point of offer to hire. Teaching service outside of the Detroit Public Schools Community District must be verified by the applicant's prior employer(s) prior to hire. It is the applicant's responsibility to provide all documentation (including copies) as requested.

Applicants requesting assistance during the application process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email at [emailprotected] or phone at [phone].

DPSCD does not discriminateon the basis ofrace, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, religion. Contact the Civil Rights Coordinator for more information at [phone] or detroitk12.org/compliance.

DPSCD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender identity, disability, age, religion, height, weight, citizenship, marital or family status, military status, ancestry, genetic information, or any other legally protected category, in its educational programs and activities, including employment and admissions opportunities.