Current Principals, VPs, and APs: What on your resume/portfolio helped you land your first gig?
I've been certified in NJ as a principal and supervisor for a year and have been applying like a madman. It's not that I dislike teaching, but after 12 years, I want a new challenge. Anyway, I haven't had a single interview outside of my district, and I only get interviews for admin positions within my district because the contract stipulates that I am obligated to one.
So my question is, what did you have, experience-wise, as a green/aspiring administrator that actually helped you towards landing an interview?
For the sake of transparency, I'm a Spanish teacher. I am on multiple district committees, have multiple teaching certs, frequently work with CST and district-level teams for McKinney-Vinto processes and general IEP/504 processes (as an interpreter, but doing it so much and so often has given me a lot of insight); I have done building-level initiatives for attendance, managed events; I have two masters (ed leadership and curriculum/instruction), I've run/led/designed PDs for faculty, done all that internship stuff (observations, walkthroughs, building operations)... aside from martyring myself, I'm running out of ideas. Help.