2017 Windermere Windermere

Headmaster Candidate Pack You can achieve more with

We offer more opportunities for you to progress, learn and collaborate.

2 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 3 Dear Candidate,

Nord Anglia Education is the world’s leading premium organization. With over twenty years of experience operating international schools around the world, we educate more than 37,000 students from early years to year 13 (K-12) and employ over 8,000 people globally. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and inspirational school headmaster to join and drive the development and ongoing success of our schools.

We are ambitious for our students, our people and our family of schools. We are a fast paced and growing organization which offers exciting challenges for those that are committed to providing our students with the best possible education.

The role of headmaster is key to the future success of our schools and organization. The focus of the role will be on the development of a distinctive educational offer, and subsequently on achieving the very best standards of education possible, on building strong and purposeful relationships within the community and growing student numbers to reach capacity.

In addition to gaining exceptional experience within our school, we will support your personal development and career aspirations within our family, including mobility between our schools and locations, and continued professional Message from development through courses such as our Executive Leadership Program. As a Nord Anglia Education headmaster you also become a member of our Senior Leadership Team with the opportunity to drive innovation, share best practice, and provide peer support across our family of schools.

We welcome applications from those that are passionate about education Andrew and have the skills and experience to make a significant impact on our schools. Yours faithfully,

Andrew Fitzmaurice CEO, Nord Anglia Education

4 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 5 Headmaster’s letter to the candidate

Dear Candidate, ■ There is an exceptionally strong emphasis on appropriate, caring professional relationships with our students, their parents, and amongst one another in our In response to being invited to provide a letter for the WPS school. We regard relationships as being the transactional currency through which Headmaster Search Package, I asked myself the question: everything of significance is accomplished in a highly successful school “What would I need to know as a candidate for the headmaster ■ We highly prize shared, collaborative decision making, and we place great importance role in this school?” Thus, I have decided to share with you some on teamwork of the philosophic operational framework that is foundational and which has significantly contributed to the meteoric success ■ We strive to honor the tenants of our school crest… Veritas, Virtus, and Unitas in all of Windermere Preparatory School over the past five years. that we do These are some of the key elements that speak to who we are ■ We operate in the fashion of a Golden Rule School and of how we have done business that I believe our staff and community will want to ensure are preserved. ■ We put a premium on the exercise of Common Sense ■ We highly value, and respect our parents as active partners with us in the formal education of their children, and we provide multiple means for the expression of the ■ True to the Credo of Nord Anglia Education, we are ambitious in the delivery of an academic offering of the highest caliber Parent Voice in our school that will enable our students to grow as young people and, ■ We understand that parents process everything we say to and do with their child upon graduation, to matriculate to their first choice college or through the Lens of Unconditional Love for their child university of best fit ■ We highly value and insist upon timely, regular, candid, and helpful communication ■ We seek to be a contributing, positive member within the Nord between teachers and parents Anglia Family of Schools ■ In our work with our students, we believe that reasonable expectations should yield ■ We like to win, and we always seek to exceed high performance willing compliance. We are not interested in playing the game of “Gotcha!” targets ■ We laugh often, and we love and respect one another ■ We are champions and advocates for our school, our staff, and our school families Windermere Preparatory School is a wonderful, warm, and embracing community. The school has achieved much in its relatively short history. There is no doubt, ■ We subscribe to the notion of Academics First… Immeasurably Enriched by the Fine Arts… and Complemented by Athletics and whatsoever, that its best days are still to be experienced. Whoever is fortunate enough Activities to be selected to fill this role will be surrounded by a team of seasoned, highly capable, dedicated, ethical and highly motivated professionals. I extend to you my best wishes ■ We are thoughtful, reflective and strategic in planning and as you move through the candidate selection process. strong in tactical execution ■ We are disciples of Jim Collins (Good to Great) in our shared Sincerely, belief that the right people in the right seats on the bus are our most important resource ■ We hold high performance expectations for both our students

and all members of our professional team. We celebrate success enthusiastically and regularly Thomas L. Marcy, Ed.D. Headmaster

6 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 7 About Windermere Our global family in a snapshot Preparatory School Located in Windermere, Florida, our renowned international private school lays the foundation for a life of achievement. With elite courses such as 37,000 Students the International Baccalaureate program and a supportive community, 8,000 Windermere Preparatory School helps students reach new heights. Employees How do you nurture an inspiring global citizen? At Windermere, we believe 43 it goes beyond grades. Our students grow intellectually, emotionally and Schools socially, and learn to excel inside and outside the classroom. Our cutting- 15 edge curriculum and wide range of activities build more rounded and Countries confident students.

Not far from Lake Cypress in beautiful southwest Orange County, Windermere Preparatory School is the ideal spot for young minds to grow. Our campus features state-of-the-art athletic facilities and well-appointed classrooms, and our innovative and rigorous curriculum provides students with a strong and enduring love of learning.

8 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 9 The world’s leading premium schools Globally respected curricula organization Our schools offer a variety of curricula for students ages 2-18 including the English National Curriculum, International Baccalaureate, Swiss Maturité, as well as We are a family of 43 private, international and British American and French curricula. Most schools teach in international schools located in 15 countries around the English, although we have a number of bilingual schools in Europe, Southeast Asia and China. world. Each of our schools is individual in character but we are united by our philosophy and commitment to offer the best education possible through unique opportunities, World leading collaborations unmatched by any other school. Together we can achieve We also collaborate with world-leading organizations to more than we can individually. Using the power of our We know the difference that ensure that our curricula and professional development global organization, we are able to create an outstanding great teaching makes to for teachers are second to none. For our new approach a student’s success at school. to teaching the interdisciplinary subjects of STEAM education for every student. (science, technology, engineering, arts and math), We have developed a we have collaborated with the world leading university, unique approach to teacher the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Our embedded performing arts curriculum, in collaboration recruitment, training and with The Juilliard School, not only fosters a love support that ensures our for learning, but also develops transferrable skills that Our philosophy students learn from the best. can be used in school, university and later on in life. — Be Ambitious In addition, we have teamed up with King’s College London to offer an Executive Master’s in International Education Small class sizes mean that Our philosophy has been created by our headmasters and exclusive only to those working for Nord Anglia Education. our teachers know every child is based on the thinking of key educators, in particular, individually and can respond Carol Dweck’s growth mind-set and Guy Claxton’s work on Our Global Campus to their strengths, adapting our learning power and multiple intelligences. learning model to help them We offer students the Global Campus, enabling them We are ambitious for our students, our people and overcome challenges. In addition to explore the world, learn new skills and set their sights our family of schools. to developing subject higher by developing a truly international perspective through outstanding online, in-school and worldwide We believe that: knowledge, our teachers experiences. From online debates and challenges to nurture essential skills to equip expeditions in the savannah of Tanzania or competing in our ■ There is no limit to what every student can achieve Global Games, we inspire our students to be ambitious in each student to succeed in their learning, both inside and outside the classroom. ■ Creativity and challenge help us get better every day every aspect of their education. ■ Learning should be personalised to each child

■ Unique global opportunities enhance every student’s learning experience

10 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 11 Outstanding Our schools nurture success in every aspect of education, from sports, to arts, languages or technology, so that every student is academically, socially and personally successful. Our academic results are testament to this approach, with one student in three students going onto the world’s top 100 universities. Year on year, our students exam results significantly exceed global and UK averages at every stage of their school career. achievementacross our family

Year on Year comparison, IGCSE—% of 5A* Year on Year comparison, International - C inc English and Math Baccalaureate—average score

83 84%

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12 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 13 We are ambitious for our people

We offer you more opportunities to innovate, access to extensive professional development, and exceptional experience and career development in our schools.

14 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 15 Achieve more with us ■ Learn more We believe in lifelong learning. We offer an extensive range of resources, support We offer you exceptional opportunities and development opportunities so that — to innovate and develop best practice you can continuously improve and stay Our global across our family, to access extensive at the top of your game. Your staff will professional development, and help your have access to unrivaled continued staff gain exceptional experience and career professional development through our development in our schools. At Nord Anglia, Leadership Programs, e-learning in Nord you will have opportunities to progress more, Anglia University, regional conferences and learn more and collaborate more. exclusive collaborations with world leading family organizations such as the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT), The Juilliard As a part of Nord Anglia Education, you will have ■ Progress more School and King’s College London. access to a wide range of resources to support We support your personal and career development within our family. You will gain your success. We offer the following: ■ exceptional experience and we will work Collaborate more ■ A fast-paced, global experience so that you with you to assess your aspirations and We want all our schools to offer the best identify the knowledge, skills and experience possible experience to our students and can progress on a global scale you need to progress to the next stage in staff and your contribution is vital to the your career. development of our family. You are part of ■ An enabling environment founded on creativity, a global community and we encourage you challenge and collaboration to share your expertise, experience and creativity with your colleagues worldwide ■ A culture which is fair and consultative through Nord Anglia University communities and Nord Anglia University workshops, ■ Unique opportunities to grow professionally so that we can set new standards of best and develop your career practice throughout our schools.

16 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 17 What we are looking for We seek a talented, internationally The ideal candidate will experienced leader in education to build upon the great work achieved ■ Relentlessly pursue outstanding academic to date. The headmaster takes performance for the many, not the few responsibility for the leadership, ■ Understand how to blend the best curricula with organization and management of the contemporary educational research and thinking on education whole school which benefits from ■ Lead strategic institutional change and improvement a highly talented and committed together with innovations in teaching and learning staff body and exceptional students ■ Have the proven capacity to lead a high performing with outstanding parental support. educational and administrative team in a The post-holder’s key deliverables competitive environment are aligned with the annual school ■ Possess a creative and pragmatic mind with the ability and experience of working within or with quality review, appropriate external wider international networks accreditation processes and the ■ Demonstrate a flair for attracting, retaining and school’s strategic plan. Other key developing talent objectives include: education quality ■ Preferably possess a working knowledge of the and outcomes, school growth, financial English National Curriculum and/or the IB Diploma targets, staff development, resource ■ Be effective in building an inclusive international school culture and a caring ethos utilization and health and safety. ■ Understand how to blend the best of premium education with contemporary international thinking to create a distinctive positioning for the school What we ■ Drive the marketing and admissions process of the ■ Membership of the Nord Anglia Education’s Senior school with passion and a focus on quality that Leadership Team grows the number of students ■ Continuous professional development, including our ■ Understand that leading learning is at the heart of  Executive Leadership Program school leadership offer ■ Competitive salary ■ Collaborate and build high performing teams, and be able to inspire, motivate and develop sustainable ■ The opportunity to enroll into our healthcare scheme relationships with all members of the school ■ Free tuition for up to 3 children community ■ Relocation allowance ■ Manage financial budgets with astuteness, creativity and engage and contribute successfully to the wider ■ Comprehensive induction program organization

■ Engage with students, teachers, parents and community leaders in a manner that is open, inclusive and conveys the values of the organization and school

18 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 19 ■ Work to maintain effective partnership and shared responsibility, developing the ■ Personally live the values embodied with the community, promoting and school’s supportive ethos, motivating in the school’s vision and offering to representing the school positively staff and students by personal interest, parents at local, regional and national and encouragement and concern for individual ■ Work with the school’s leadership team international level needs to ensure effective implementation and Jobdetails ■ Provide information and advice to the ■ Maintain high standards of behavior among monitoring of the school’s strategic company, with the help of colleagues, all students through a behavior policy based plans on all aspects of school performance, on self-discipline and respect for others, ■ Take advantage of a range of national including efficiency and value for money handling disciplinary matters fairly and and local initiatives to drive up all equitably ■ Operate two-way communication aspects of performance channels throughout the school to ■ Ensure that group policies and local ■ Prepare staffing structure, following ensure effective communication regulatory requirements for the curriculum, consultation, for teaching and between staff and students, staff and school premises, health and safety and well- associate staff, including a Leadership Scope and purpose school management, and parents and being of staff and students are met 1 Team, to ensure the effective school staff/management of the role implementation of the school strategic Operational Expertise & Resource and annual plan Leadership in teaching and learning Management The headmaster will take overall responsibility for the leadership, organization and Developing Talent management of the School in providing vision ■ Create an environment within the school ■ Monitor and evaluate school performance as that puts achievement at the heart of all a means for improvement and leadership in Learning and Teaching; ■ Inspire and lead the whole school that the school does providing an inspirational vision and ■ In conjunction with the other Headmasters community with vision and enthusiasm leadership; driving student enrollments ■ Promote a culture of personal and Director of International schools ■ Appoint staff and manage their achieving student enrollment targets and accountability and passion for education contribute to the establishment of best performance in line with the prevailing effective marketing of the school; day to day practices that can be shared across the ■ Implement an appropriate curriculum legislation through the provision of management, organization and administration; Group attraction of talent, retention and effective for the school that takes into account the appropriate induction, training and ■ management of staff. needs, aptitudes and development of Ensure the efficient and effective use of performance management systems, students resources (teachers, facilities and teaching encouraging teaching excellence materials) in the delivery of educational and ensuring access to appropriate ■ Review the curriculum annually and excellence continuing professional development ensure that it is delivered through an opportunities effective timetable ■ Prepare an annual revenue and expenditure plan for agreement with the Director of ■ Promote and support the professional ■ Meet challenging but realistic International schools development of all staff in accordance educational targets, agreed with with the school’s staff development Regional Managing Director, that ■ Monitor progress of school against annual policy demonstrate excellence in student plan, proposing recovery actions where 2Key responsibilities academic progress necessary ■ Promote the well-being of the staff in order to maximize their professional ■ Ensure that students’ personal ■ Research and investigate information to Front of House: Admissions and Marketing contribution and satisfaction development is effectively promoted enable strategic decision-making by others through the curriculum and other ■ Commitment to the continuing ■ Explore and propose growth opportunities activities professional development of teachers for the school Strategic Planning and Vision ■ Promote excellence in teaching; from the ■ Develop and ensure implementation of recruitment of quality people through ■ Contribute to the development of the overall marketing plan and to personally carry out to the monitoring and improvement of Windermere Preparatory School’s vision and These job details are guides to the ambassadorial role representing the school teaching standards in school with key influencers and parents of potential offering to parents duties, professional responsibilities ■ Inspire and lead students with vision and students. Approve decisions, requests, ■ Ensure all staff in the school are aware of the and core competences. They do enthusiasm expenditure and recommendations on agreed vision and customer proposition and not form part of the contract of behalf of senior people in their absence, ■ Build excellent relationships with the expectation that it should guide all that according to agreed guidelines and policies students is done in the school employment.

■ Communicate regularly with parents and ■ Encourage whole-school commitment ■ Work with the Company management guardians/carers on student performance, to formulate the school’s vision, aims, working with them and staff to maximize objectives and policies individual potential

20 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 21 ■ Ability to effectively handle parental concerns, balancing the views of the Essential customer with the educational and operational principles of the school

■ Ability to secure the loyalty and confidence of all staff, students and parents Essential Person Specifications ■ Take full involvement in the whole life of the school, to include events and Essential 3 after school activities

1. Qualifications/Training ■ An understanding of how to set appropriate targets for school performance, Essential and how to prepare, monitor and evaluate an action plan in relation to those targets ■ University educated with an Honors Degree Preferred/Desirable ■ Ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of different audiences Essential ■ Hold a recognized teaching qualification Essential

■ Evidence of ongoing professional development Essential 3. Personal Attributes ■ Further degree of educational qualification Desirable

■ Hold or working toward the National Professional Qualification Desirable for Headship(NPQH) or equivalent in local country- unless a Head ■ Passionate about delivering quality education Essential before 2002 (desirable) ■ Able to command respect of students, staff and parents Essential

■ Respects the contribution of all individuals Essential

2. In-depth knowledge and understanding of: ■ Organized Essential

■ High levels of integrity Essential

■ US Curricula, International Baccalaureate Diploma, APs, SATs and Essential ■ Driven by wanting to improve quality and grow the school Essential associated assessment methods ■ Reliable with an attention to detail and a commitment to quality Essential ■ Awareness of current educational issues and up to date curriculum Essential developments, internationally ■ Excellent communicator – the ability to communicate inspirationally & Essential effectively to both internal and external audiences, to incorporate successful ■ Application of effective teaching and learning strategies that achieve Essential negotiation and consultation high levels of teaching and student achievement ■ Energetic Essential ■ Commercial operations of independent schools Essential ■ Innovative Essential ■ Awareness of how international schools vary from government Essential maintained schools ■ Open and honest Essential

■ ■ Leadership of a school, having responsibility for education, school operations Essential Have the enthusiasm, initiative and determination to work as a role Essential and commercial (budget setting & control) aspects of the school model for the school

■ ■ Managing growth of a school Essential Determined Essential

■ Developing and implementing a school quality improvement program, Essential including demonstration of raising student’s level of achievement; alongside 4. Personality and Character traits we are looking for School self-evaluation

■ Experience of premises development Desirable ■ Resilient with bounce-back ability ■ Managing change within an organization Essential ■ War wounds-has experienced tough times and triumphed ■ Developing and implementing marketing programs, including personal Essential involvement in school promotion ■ Compelling story-teller

■ Proven experience of leading, taking part in and building/developing people Essential ■ A learner and successful teams ■ Tough minded with a strong moral compass ■ An understanding of how to access and review the cost effectiveness of major Essential ■ Warm rapport builder and approachability spending decision in terms of educational standards and the quality of education ■ Gravitas ■ Ability to operate at both strategic and operational level Essential ■ Optimistic and positive mind-set ■ Ability to operate as part of a wider group of schools and represent the Essential vision of the overall group ■ Sound judgement

■ Ability to inspire and enthuse students, staff and parents Essential ■ Good sense of humor ■ Growth mind-set

22 Windermere Candidate Pack — Headmaster 23 THAILAND North America Europe Middle East ■ Regents International School Pattaya USA CZECH REPUBLIC QATAR ■ St Andrews International School ■ The British International School ■ The English International School ■ Nord Anglia International School Bangkok of Charlotte Prague Al Khor St Andrews International School ■ British International School ■ Compass International School Bangkok (new campus opening 2017) of Boston HUNGARY Doha, Gharaffa ■ British International School ■ The British International School, ■ Compass International School Our VIETNAM of Chicago, Lincoln Park Budapest Doha, Madinat Khalifa ■ British International School, Hanoi ■ British International School ■ Compass International School ■ British Vietnamese International of Chicago, South Loop POLAND Doha, Rayyan School, Hanoi ■ British International School ■ The ■ British International School, of Houston UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Ho Chi Minh City family ■ ■ The Village School SLOVAKIA The British International School ■ British Vietnamese International ■ British International School of ■ The British International School Abu Dhabi School, Ho Chi Minh City Washington Bratislava ■ Nord Anglia International School ■ Nord Anglia International School, Dubai New York SPAIN Nord Anglia American International China ■ North Broward Preparatory School ■ International College Spain School Abu Dhabi (opening September ■ 2017) Windermere Preparatory School ■ Nord Anglia International School SWITZERLAND Shanghai, Pudong ■ MEXICO Collège Beau Soleil ■ The British International School ■ San Roberto International School ■ Collège Champittet, Nyon Southeast Asia Shanghai, Puxi ■ Collège Champittet, Pully ■ The British School of Beijing, ■ CAMBODIA Collège du Léman Sanlitun ■ ■ Northbridge International School La Côte International School ■ The British School of Beijing, Cambodia Shunyi ■ The British School of Guangzhou SINGAPORE ■ Léman International School - ■ Dover Court International School Chengdu Singapore ■ Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong

POLAND CZECH REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA SWITZERLAND HUNGARY

SPAIN USA

QATAR CHINA MEXICO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

THAILAND VIETNAM CAMBODIA

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