Principal Elementary SY; NBOE

Join to apply for the Principal Elementary SY2026‑27 (NBOE) role at Newark Public Schools

At Newark Board of Education, we aim to provide a world‑class education for every student. Our principals bring this vision to life at their school. As the principal, you lead all aspects of the school, from bringing your teachers and staff together around a common vision to ensuring day‑to‑day operations run smoothly. You’re an instructional leader, spending time in classrooms and working with teachers to ensure that students are learning.

You’re a culture leader, fostering an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community for students and staff and building strong relationships with families and the community. And you’re an organizational leader, which means managing a budget and evaluating staff, analyzing data, and ensuring your school’s efforts follow district policy. You’ll balance many priorities and wear many hats, moving between activities like planning Back to School Night and establishing a relationship with a new neighborhood preschool provider.

As the school leader, you’re ultimately responsible for the success of your school, but you won’t get there alone. Because school success is a team sport, you’ll foster the leadership of your vice principals and entire team of teachers and staff, empowering them and enabling the collaboration needed for your school to succeed.

• Develop, implement, and sustain a shared mission, vision, and core values of high‑quality education, using deep knowledge of instruction, curriculum, and assessment to achieve the school’s vision.
• Set realistic and ambitious multi‑year and annual school goals based on aggregated and disaggregated data.
• Establish systems to strive for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices.
• Develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment through consistent, specific, and timely feedback.
• Foster a professional community of teachers and other professional staff, and develop their professional capacity and practice.
• Coach teachers on instructional delivery with planned professional opportunities to leverage teachers’ instructional strengths to maximize instructional impact.
• Proactively engage with all stakeholders.
• Cultivate an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that fosters strong relationships and advances the school mission and vision.
• Prioritize being visible and engage families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways.
• Strategically manage school operations and leverage resources to support the school’s instructional program and professional learning community.
• Act as an agent of continuous improvement.
• Act ethically and according to professional norms.
• And of course, perform other duties which may be assigned or required by law, code, regulation or board policy.

• You know that all students can succeed at high levels, maintain a relentless focus on improving student outcomes, and are personally resilient in that pursuit.
• You consistently apply an equity lens, implement strategies to address inequities and institutional biases, and help create an inclusive school culture.
• You prioritize and allocate limited time strategically, and adjust to changing conditions.
• You collaborate effectively with staff and families, engage and motivate them in pursuit of school success, and empower others to lead.
• You understand and have used effective planning, instructional strategies, assessment, and intervention to improve student outcomes.
• Your coaching gets to the root issues and motivates and enables others to improve.
• You consistently focus on getting better by reflecting, learning and changing your actions.
• You act ethically and fairly at all times.

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• New Jersey Principal Standard Certificate or a Certificate of Eligibility for Principal.
• Successful experience as a teacher.
• Successful building‑level administrative or supervisory experience.
• Success in increasing student achievement and effectively developing staff at the building level, utilizing a variety of approaches that emphasize inclusion and culturally responsive practice.

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent

• Salary: $135,300–169,500 (Pending salary negotiations)
• Employment Period:
  Twelve (12) months
• Union Affiliation:
  City Association of Supervisors and Administrators (CASA)

Newark Board of Education offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to

Newark Board of Education only accepts electronic applications.

THE NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER