School Principal

JOB GOAL:   To use leadership, supervisory, and administrative skills to promote the educational program at the school site.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate in the school;
2. Initiates designs, and implements programs, including Total Quality Learning to meet specific needs of the school;
3. Keeps the superintendent informed of the school’s activities and problems;
4. Makes recommendations concerning the school’s administration and problems;
5. Makes recommendations concerning the school’s budgetary requests, and monitors expenditure of funds;
6. Supervises the maintenance of all required building records and reports;
7. Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists, and all other paperwork required or appropriate to the school’s administration;
8. Works with various members of the central administrative staff on school problems of more than in school import, such as special services;
9. Keeps Superintendent informed of events and activities of an unusual nature as well as routine matters related to the supervisor’s accountability;
10. Assumes responsibility for the implementation and observance of all board policies and regulations by the school’s staff and students;
11. Budgets school time to provide for the efficient conduct of school instruction and business;
12. Supervises the school’s education program; leads in the development, determination of appropriateness, and monitoring of the instructional program;
13. Provides classes within established guides to meet student needs; assists in the development, revision, and evaluation of the curriculum;
14. Supervises the guidance program to enhance individual student education and development;
15. Maintains high standards of student conduct and enforces discipline as necessary, according to due process to the rights of students;
16. Establishes guides for achievement, and attends school sponsored activities, functions, and athletic events;
17. Maintains and controls the various local funds generated by student activities;
18. Supervises the maintenance of accurate records on the progress and attendance of students;
19. Assumes responsibility for the attendance, conduct, and maintenance of health of students;
20. Assumes responsibility for his/her own professional growth and development;
21. Assumes responsibility for the supervision of all school building personnel according to board policies and procedures;
22. Supervises the school’s teaching process;
23. Approves the master teaching schedule and any special assignments;
24. Orients newly assigned staff members and assists in their development, as appropriate;
25. Evaluates and counsels all staff members regarding their individual and group performance;
26. Conducts meetings of the staff as necessary for the proper functioning of the school;
27. Assists in the in-service orientation and training of teachers, with special responsibility for staff administrative procedures and instructions;

Recommends, according to established procedures, the removal of a teacher whose work is unsatisfactory

1. Makes arrangements for special conferences between parents and teachers;
2. Notifies maintenance department of problems and concerns regarding physical plant;
3. Supervises the daily use of school facilities for both academic and nonacademic purposes;
4. Plans and supervises fire drills and an emergency preparedness program;
5. Asserts leadership in times of civil disobedience in school in accordance with established board policy;
6. Provides for adequate inventories of property under his/her jurisdiction and for the security and accountability for that property;
7. Supervises all activities and programs that are outgrowths of the school’s curriculum;
8. Supervises and evaluates the school’s extra-curricular program;
9. Participates in principal’s meetings, negotiation meetings, and such other meetings as are required or appropriate;
10. Responds to written and oral requests for information;
11. Assumes responsibility for all official school correspondence and news release;
12. Organizes and administers the public relations program for his/her school;
13. Serves as a member of such committees and attends such meeting as directed by the Superintendent;
14. Delegates authority to responsible personnel to assume responsibility for the school in the absence of the Principal.