High School Principal

Fremont County School District #14 — Secondary Principal

Job Description

TITLE: Secondary Building Principal

Qualifications

• Valid Wyoming Certificate in secondary administration.
• Five years of successful classroom teaching experience.
• An earned Master’s Degree from an Accredited University
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board may find acceptable

REPORTS TO: Superintendent of Schools

SUPERVISES: Building specific employees

JOB GOAL: The basic functions of the position of secondary principal shall be to use the appropriate leadership, administrative, interpersonal, and supervisory skills to ensure that students can learn in an environment that is safe, secure, pleasant, and emotionally sound. Such skills shall also be utilized to ensure that staffs are provided a supportive atmosphere in which to work, participate, and grow professionally.

Finally, these skills shall also be used to ensure that parents and the community are provided opportunities, which shall contribute to their understanding and support of the elementary programs and staff.

Performance Responsibilities

An instructional leader demonstrates the ability to influence the instructional program in positive ways.

• Visionary leadership demonstrates the ability to develop, articulate, and use a vision of excellence.
• Presents evidence that the vision is a shared vision
• Uses the vision to guide and define decisions
• Curriculum design and development demonstrates the ability to ensure that the curriculum of the school is designed to promote high student achievement and sound personal growth.
• Leads the faculty and community in a thorough understanding of the relationship between the learning needs of students and the state standards
• Ensures that there is an appropriate and logical alignment between the curriculum of the school and the state's standards and assessment system
• Ensures that appropriate differentiation in curriculum and instruction is available to those students with differing needs
• Instructional effectiveness demonstrates the ability to facilitate instructional practices that will lead to high student performance and to a safe, orderly, and caring environment.
• Manages time to be an instructional leader as a priority
• Provides targeted and challenging professional development activities for the faculty
• Arranges for teachers to teach in settings and circumstances that draw on their strengths and highest abilities
• Assessment and evaluation demonstrates a commitment to using information to promote sound instructional practices.
• Uses data collected from state and local testing and assessment programs to develop formative instructional strategies to improve the effectiveness of daily classroom instruction
• Monitors student achievement throughout the year, using both classroom and testing data to assess progress
• Monitors classroom performance on a regular basis, offering pathways to improved student performance through improved teaching
• Results oriented:
  Demonstrates the ability to have students achieve at expected levels of performance or beyond.
• Implements a system of performance indicators that guide the school staff in benchmarking performance
• Produces student achievement results that align with district standards and assessments
• Communicates student achievement results to appropriate audiences and constituencies

An organizational leader demonstrates the ability to create and sustain an organizational culture that promotes high standards and expectations.

• Climate communicates a commitment to high expectations for student and teacher performance.
• Provides and promotes a climate for learning that is safe and orderly
• Creates an organizational climate that provides rewards and incentives for accomplishment
• Monitors student performance on a continuous basis
• Communicates a commitment to the dignity, respect and contribution of all cultures
• Uses professional meeting times in the school to reinforce commitments to high performance standards

Finds pathways and opportunities for teachers and others to make the best contributions they are capable of making for themselves…