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Sacramento City Unified School District seeks a principal to lead Harkness Elementary School in its mission to create a balanced, holistic, culturally responsive and standards-based educational foundation, allowing students to become lifelong learners, prepared to be competitive and successful at all levels of their academic career. Harkness teachers build effective relationships with students and parents; develop a standards-based and balanced curriculum that captures interest, motivates, encourages and challenges each student regardless of ability level to higher academic achievement; develop within their students inventive thinking, adaptability and self-direction; explicitly teach interactive communication, social and personal skills; require students to develop quality state of the art results; develop relevancy of the state content standards through Project Based Learning and Service Learning; remain current on instructional best practices through professional development centric to the site’s critical pedagogy; promote English Language Acquisition and Development through vocabulary instruction and authentic exhibitions/presentations; provide targeted intervention; eliminate the academic achievement gap and engage students through the use of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching Harkness Elementary's student body reflects the rich diversity of South Sacramento. The school has approximately 352 students that include a diverse student population of 39% Latino/Hispanic, 20% Black/African American, 19% Asian, 11% Two or More Races. In addition, the Woodbine student population consists of approximately 20% English Learners, 19% Students with Disabilities, and 89.5% Socioeconomically Disadvantaged. The new principal at Harkness Elementary will need to address the high rates of chronic absenteeism, 11.1% on the 2019 California School Dashboard, and especially improve outcomes for Black/African American students, Low Income, Students with Disabilities, and Latino/Hispanic students. Harkness Elementary scored in the yellow performance band in English Language Arts and in the orange performance band in Mathematics on the current California Dashboard. While performance in English has steadily improved as measured by Distance from Standard (DfS), the majority of Harkness students are still not performing at grade level in mathematics. The new principal will also need to ensure that the campus climate is improved with a focus on equity for all students.