Principal - Secondary

Overview

Position Type: Leading-Campus Administrators/ Principal

Date Posted: 1/23/2026

Location: To Be Determined

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

• Effective Instruction: Implements highly effective routines, instructional strategies, and experiences for all students across all core content areas.
• Implements highly effective, evidence-based literacy practices and initiatives embedded into the campus improvement plan, ensuring robust instructional practices and targeted interventions support students in achieving grade-level reading proficiency.
• Collects, analyzes, and monitors multiple forms of data to inform instruction, and intervention decisions and maximize growth and achievement for all student groups.
• Leverages resources effectively to respond in a timely manner to all students' needs.
• Ensures the implementation of high-quality, effective classroom instructional strategies that improve performance of all students and student groups, ensuring equity and eliminating achievement gaps.
• Ensures the use of student level data to drive continuous improvement ensuring every student has sufficient opportunity to meet and exceed standards.
• Ensures daily demonstrations of student learning inform data-driven instruction and reinforce high-quality Tier 1 teaching practices to assess student mastery of state standards.
• Ensures fidelity to high-quality instructional materials by promoting teacher lesson internalization and alignment with state standards, assessments, and district curricula.
• Facilitates access to high-quality instructional resources and professional development.

• Positive School Culture: Aligns the Fort Worth ISD's vision, mission, and goals to a safe environment and high expectations.
• Establishes and communicates clear expectations and systems for behaviors, including social and emotional supports.
• Establishes and implements a shared vision and culture of collective responsibility with high expectations for staff and students.
• Communicates, collaborates, and builds strong relationships with teachers, staff, students, and parents, and community and business partners.
• Leads strategies to proactively provide and coordinate student support services.
• Involves and coordinates family and community involvement in productive activities.

• Effective, Well-Supported Teachers: Recruits, selects, assigns, and inducts highly effective educators.
• Conducts rigorous and calibrated observations.
• Provides support and real-time coaching to promote instructional improvement.
• Personalizes and aligns professional development.
• Coaches and develops teachers by providing actionable feedback to improve the quality of instruction.

• Effective School Leadership and Planning: Creates a high-performing, skilled leadership team through real-time coaching, observations, and professional development opportunities to increases student achievement and attendance.
• Adheres to and applies the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators.
• Addresses leadership and instructional priorities through focused time and calendar meetings.
• Leads focused planning processes with strategic monitoring of outcomes.
• Productively manages change processes.
• Models personal commitment to developing self and others.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with all stakeholders.
• Strategically plans and ensures campus operations and resources promote the academic success and well-being of each student.
• Manages resources (people, financial, equipment) effectively to support the organizational goals.

• Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises and evaluates the performance of staff assigned to campus including assistant principal(s), teacher(s), counselor(s), librarian(s), instructional aides, clerical support staff, and custodians.

• Personal Work Relationships: Maintains a commitment to the district's mission, vision, and strategic goals.
• Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct and work ethic.
• Develops and uses effective conflict-management and consensus-building skills.
• Demonstrates high quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer.
• Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and performs as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.

• Other Duties as Assigned: Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in accordance with Board rules, policies and regulations. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required.

• Knowledge of federal and state guidelines and district policies and procedures regarding all students' services and programs.
• Knowledge of best practices in administration, program evaluation, and staff supervision, including principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership techniques, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of current teaching methods and educational…