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Charlotte Lab School
Full-Time | 12-Month Position | Public K–12 Charter School
Start Date: Summer 2026 (or earlier by mutual agreement)
Application Window: Open until filled
About Charlotte Lab School
Charlotte Lab School is a public charter school committed to providing a rigorous, inclusive, and student-centered learning experience. Our model emphasizes strong instruction, whole-child wellness, equity, and continuous improvement. We believe schools thrive when adults grow together in a culture of trust, accountability, and shared purpose.
Why This Role Matters
The School Director plays a critical role in bringing Charlotte Lab School’s instructional model, culture, and daily operations to life. This leader ensures that high-quality instruction, supportive systems, and equitable practices result in strong outcomes for students and a positive, sustainable experience for staff and families.
This role is ideal for an experienced school leader with a proven track record of leading adults, driving instructional improvement, and contributing to strong student outcomes, who is ready to take on significant responsibility for schoolwide leadership within a collaborative team.
Role Overview
The School Director leads instructional quality, school culture, and day-to-day operations within assigned grade bands or learning pods. Working in close partnership with the Head of School and Leadership Team, the Director supports teachers and staff through coaching, data-informed decision-making, and clear systems that promote student success and adult growth.
This role combines hands-on instructional leadership with people leadership and operational oversight and is designed to grow in scope and influence over time.
What Success Looks Like in the First Year
A successful School Director will:
- Establish a positive student culture focused on academic excellence
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with staff, students, and families
- Ensure consistent instructional expectations and practices across classrooms
- Strengthen the use of data to inform instruction and targeted interventions
- Support teacher growth through coaching, feedback, and accountability
- Learn and implement Lab’s instructional, wellness, and culture models with fidelity
- Contribute positively to a collaborative, mission-driven leadership team
Key Responsibilities
Instructional Leadership & Adult Learning
- Support high-quality, standards-aligned instruction through coaching, observation, and feedback
- Guide teachers in translating student mastery expectations into engaging instructional plans
- Advance culturally responsive, personalized, and equitable instructional practices
- Lead and support data analysis to inform instructional adjustments and interventions
- Plan and facilitate professional learning that results in observable changes in practice
- Ensure required assessments are planned, administered, and used effectively
- Serve as testing coordinator for assigned grade levels
Culture, Wellness & Community
- Establish and maintain systems that support a positive student culture focused on academic excellence
- Build positive relationships grounded in trust, respect, and integrity
- Model and support trauma-informed, restorative, and inclusive culture and discipline practices
- Support advisory and wellness programming aligned to the whole-child mission
- Maintain a safe, welcoming, and emotionally supportive school environment
- Partner with families through events, communication, and community-building efforts
Operations & Systems
- Support strong daily operations aligned to the school’s mission and priorities
- Collaborate on schedules, procedures, and systems that are aligned to the Lab model and prioritize student learning
- Use time, resources, and staffing responsibly and ethically
- Partner with leadership team members to align resources to instructional and cultural goals
Decision-Making & Collaboration
The School Director has direct responsibility for instructional and cultural leadership and staff support within assigned areas and collaborates closely with the leadership team and peers on schoolwide priorities, systems, and strategic initiatives. This role is supported through coaching, collaboration, and shared leadership structures.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (Master’s degree preferred)
- Minimum of 5 years combined teaching and/or school leadership experience
- Demonstrated success leading adults
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Eligibility for or willingness to obtain North Carolina administrator licensure within one year
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
- Commitment to equity, inclusion, and serving diverse student populations
- Comfort using technology and collaborative tools (e.g., Google Workspace)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a principal, assistant principal, dean, instructional coach
- Experience in a charter, lab, or innovative school environment
- Experience with standards-based grading or personalized learning models
- Background in coaching, curriculum leadership, or instructional design
Who Thrives at Charlotte Lab School
Successful leaders at Lab tend to be:
- Growth-oriented, reflective, and open to feedback
- Collaborative and relationship-driven
- Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Instructionally curious and student-centered
- Humble, hardworking, and solutions-oriented
- Able to balance high expectations with care and humanity
- Nimble and able to handle a fast-paced environment
Compensation & Benefits
This is a Grade 5+ leadership role with compensation aligned to experience and scope, designed to support emerging and mid-career school leaders. Charlotte Lab School offers:
- Competitive public-sector compensation
- Medical insurance with optional dental and vision plans
- Retirement plan (403b) options
- Paid time off (12 PTO days annually)
- Access to flexible spending accounts
- Priority enrollment consideration for employee children
Final compensation is determined based on verified experience and Board-approved salary structures.
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit:
- A resume
- A cover letter describing their interest in Charlotte Lab School and readiness for this leadership role
Applications can be completed through our online system.
Charlotte Lab School is committed to building a diverse and inclusive staff and encourages candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
Physical Requirements
The employee must have the ability to perform the following physical tasks. Reasonable accommodations may be provided for individuals with disabilities:
- Sit, stand, and walk for extended periods throughout the instructional day
- Lift and carry classroom materials, instructional resources, and student work (up to 50 pounds) with or without accommodations
- Bend, kneel, and reach to access materials, work at student level, and assist students
- Climb stairs and navigate multiple levels of the building as required
- Use fine motor skills including writing, typing, and manipulating small objects
- Hear and respond to student needs, questions, and behavioral issues
- See clearly to monitor student work, write on boards, and read instructional materials
- Speak clearly and project voice to be heard in classroom and group settings without amplification
- Assist students with personal hygiene needs as appropriate (for primary grades)
- Respond quickly to student safety emergencies and assist students in evacuation procedures
- Transport students or materials as needed for instructional purposes
- Use hand-eye coordination for writing, computer work, and classroom activities
Charlotte Lab School is strongly committed to hiring a diverse and multicultural staff and we encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Charlotte Lab School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, national, ethnic origin, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Work Location: In person
School Director
Charlotte Lab School
Full-Time | 12-Month Position | Public K–12 Charter School
Start Date: Summer 2026 (or earlier by mutual agreement)
Application Window: Open until filled
About Charlotte Lab School
Charlotte Lab School is a public charter school committed to providing a rigorous, inclusive, and student-centered learning experience. Our model emphasizes strong instruction, whole-child wellness, equity, and continuous improvement. We believe schools thrive when adults grow together in a culture of trust, accountability, and shared purpose.
Why This Role Matters
The School Director plays a critical role in bringing Charlotte Lab School’s instructional model, culture, and daily operations to life. This leader ensures that high-quality instruction, supportive systems, and equitable practices result in strong outcomes for students and a positive, sustainable experience for staff and families.
This role is ideal for an experienced school leader with a proven track record of leading adults, driving instructional improvement, and contributing to strong student outcomes, who is ready to take on significant responsibility for schoolwide leadership within a collaborative team.
Role Overview
The School Director leads instructional quality, school culture, and day-to-day operations within assigned grade bands or learning pods. Working in close partnership with the Head of School and Leadership Team, the Director supports teachers and staff through coaching, data-informed decision-making, and clear systems that promote student success and adult growth.
This role combines hands-on instructional leadership with people leadership and operational oversight and is designed to grow in scope and influence over time.
What Success Looks Like in the First Year
A successful School Director will:
- Establish a positive student culture focused on academic excellence
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with staff, students, and families
- Ensure consistent instructional expectations and practices across classrooms
- Strengthen the use of data to inform instruction and targeted interventions
- Support teacher growth through coaching, feedback, and accountability
- Learn and implement Lab’s instructional, wellness, and culture models with fidelity
- Contribute positively to a collaborative, mission-driven leadership team
Key Responsibilities
Instructional Leadership & Adult Learning
- Support high-quality, standards-aligned instruction through coaching, observation, and feedback
- Guide teachers in translating student mastery expectations into engaging instructional plans
- Advance culturally responsive, personalized, and equitable instructional practices
- Lead and support data analysis to inform instructional adjustments and interventions
- Plan and facilitate professional learning that results in observable changes in practice
- Ensure required assessments are planned, administered, and used effectively
- Serve as testing coordinator for assigned grade levels
Culture, Wellness & Community
- Establish and maintain systems that support a positive student culture focused on academic excellence
- Build positive relationships grounded in trust, respect, and integrity
- Model and support trauma-informed, restorative, and inclusive culture and discipline practices
- Support advisory and wellness programming aligned to the whole-child mission
- Maintain a safe, welcoming, and emotionally supportive school environment
- Partner with families through events, communication, and community-building efforts
Operations & Systems
- Support strong daily operations aligned to the school’s mission and priorities
- Collaborate on schedules, procedures, and systems that are aligned to the Lab model and prioritize student learning
- Use time, resources, and staffing responsibly and ethically
- Partner with leadership team members to align resources to instructional and cultural goals
Decision-Making & Collaboration
The School Director has direct responsibility for instructional and cultural leadership and staff support within assigned areas and collaborates closely with the leadership team and peers on schoolwide priorities, systems, and strategic initiatives. This role is supported through coaching, collaboration, and shared leadership structures.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required (Master’s degree preferred)
- Minimum of 5 years combined teaching and/or school leadership experience
- Demonstrated success leading adults
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Eligibility for or willingness to obtain North Carolina administrator licensure within one year
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
- Commitment to equity, inclusion, and serving diverse student populations
- Comfort using technology and collaborative tools (e.g., Google Workspace)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a principal, assistant principal, dean, instructional coach
- Experience in a charter, lab, or innovative school environment
- Experience with standards-based grading or personalized learning models
- Background in coaching, curriculum leadership, or instructional design
Who Thrives at Charlotte Lab School
Successful leaders at Lab tend to be:
- Growth-oriented, reflective, and open to feedback
- Collaborative and relationship-driven
- Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Instructionally curious and student-centered
- Humble, hardworking, and solutions-oriented
- Able to balance high expectations with care and humanity
- Nimble and able to handle a fast-paced environment
Compensation & Benefits
This is a Grade 5+ leadership role with compensation aligned to experience and scope, designed to support emerging and mid-career school leaders. Charlotte Lab School offers:
- Competitive public-sector compensation
- Medical insurance with optional dental and vision plans
- Retirement plan (403b) options
- Paid time off (12 PTO days annually)
- Access to flexible spending accounts
- Priority enrollment consideration for employee children
Final compensation is determined based on verified experience and Board-approved salary structures.
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit:
- A resume
- A cover letter describing their interest in Charlotte Lab School and readiness for this leadership role
Applications can be completed through our online system.
Charlotte Lab School is committed to building a diverse and inclusive staff and encourages candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
Physical Requirements
The employee must have the ability to perform the following physical tasks. Reasonable accommodations may be provided for individuals with disabilities:
- Sit, stand, and walk for extended periods throughout the instructional day
- Lift and carry classroom materials, instructional resources, and student work (up to 50 pounds) with or without accommodations
- Bend, kneel, and reach to access materials, work at student level, and assist students
- Climb stairs and navigate multiple levels of the building as required
- Use fine motor skills including writing, typing, and manipulating small objects
- Hear and respond to student needs, questions, and behavioral issues
- See clearly to monitor student work, write on boards, and read instructional materials
- Speak clearly and project voice to be heard in classroom and group settings without amplification
- Assist students with personal hygiene needs as appropriate (for primary grades)
- Respond quickly to student safety emergencies and assist students in evacuation procedures
- Transport students or materials as needed for instructional purposes
- Use hand-eye coordination for writing, computer work, and classroom activities
Charlotte Lab School is strongly committed to hiring a diverse and multicultural staff and we encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Charlotte Lab School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, national, ethnic origin, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Work Location: In person
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Target roles that match your teaching credentials
Charlotte Lab School's sponsorship activity centers on classroom and instructional roles. Focus your application on positions where your subject-matter expertise and teaching qualifications directly align, these are the roles most likely to move through the sponsorship process.
Understand the H-1B specialty occupation requirement for educators
Teaching at a private K-12 school qualifies as a specialty occupation when the role requires a degree in education or a specific subject area. Make sure your degree field clearly matches the position you're applying for before approaching Charlotte Lab School about sponsorship.
Reach out early if you're on OPT or CPT
Charlotte Lab School has shown openness to F-1 OPT and CPT candidates. If your work authorization has an upcoming end date, flag your timeline early in the hiring process so the school can plan around H-1B cap or OPT extension deadlines.
Align your application with the academic hiring calendar
Education employers like Charlotte Lab School hire in cycles tied to the school year. Target your outreach between January and April, when schools are actively filling roles for the following academic year and sponsorship decisions are being made.
Demonstrate commitment to the school's progressive education model
Charlotte Lab School emphasizes inquiry-based, student-centered learning. Candidates who can speak specifically to project-based instruction and student development are more compelling to sponsor, generic applications are less likely to move forward in a school with a distinct pedagogical identity.
Use a platform that surfaces verified sponsoring employers
Finding education employers with a real sponsorship track record takes more than a basic job search. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by actual sponsorship history and focus your energy on schools like Charlotte Lab School that have demonstrated willingness to sponsor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Charlotte Lab School sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes, Charlotte Lab School sponsors H-1B visas for qualifying roles. The school has consistently supported H-1B petitions for educators and school professionals in positions that meet the specialty occupation standard. If you hold a degree in education or a relevant subject area and your role requires that qualification, Charlotte Lab School has a track record of moving forward with sponsorship.
What visa types does Charlotte Lab School support?
Charlotte Lab School sponsors H-1B visas and has also supported F-1 OPT and F-1 CPT candidates. TN visa sponsorship is also associated with the school, which can be an option for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional roles. The breadth of visa types suggests the school is experienced working with international candidates across different authorization pathways.
Which roles at Charlotte Lab School are most likely to receive visa sponsorship?
Sponsorship at Charlotte Lab School is concentrated in instructional and education-facing roles. Teaching positions requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific subject area are the strongest candidates for H-1B sponsorship, since they satisfy the specialty occupation requirement. Roles in curriculum development or student support that require a specific degree field may also qualify.
How do I time my application to maximize my chances of sponsorship at Charlotte Lab School?
K-12 schools hire on an academic calendar, so the strongest window to apply is between January and April for roles beginning the following school year. If you need H-1B sponsorship, timing matters even more, your employer must file before the April 1 cap deadline for an October 1 start. Applying early gives Charlotte Lab School time to begin the sponsorship process without rushing.
How do I find open roles at Charlotte Lab School that offer visa sponsorship?
The most reliable approach is to search on Migrate Mate, which aggregates roles from employers with verified sponsorship histories. You can filter specifically for education employers and visa types, so you're only seeing positions where sponsorship is a realistic option. This saves significant time compared to researching each employer's immigration track record manually.