What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal 2025-2026 SY North Woods Focus Campus CPHS position at Career Prep High Schools?
Job Purpose
The School Principal leads the school team to success in all FusionEd Career Prep School Systems. First and foremost, he or she is a leader who manages the school team to recruit and retain a full student enrollment throughout the year. With full enrollment, the Principal also ensures a quality educational experience for all students and, working with their staff, guides students into promising job and career pathways.
Systems
- Academic Scheduling
- Apex
- Attendance Procedures
- Enrollment Process
- FTE
- Compliance/Operations
- Course Close-Out
- CTE/Alternative Pathways
- Daily Schedule
- Discovery
- Graduation Planners
- MTSS
- Quick Access
- Retention
- Student Academic Achievement
- Staff Evaluations
- Student Discipline
- Student Onboarding
Accountable Functions
Academic Scheduling:
- Assign two academic courses to each student and successfully enroll students in CBI or CTE programs
- Manage academic scheduling for all of post-Discovery students to ensure that CTE is scheduled to not conflict with or surpass academic hours
- Ensure CBI/CTE is correctly scheduled by Student Enrollment Specialist at enrollment
Apex:
- Enroll students in academic courses upon completion of Discovery and during the Course Close Out process
- Archive inactive student weekly
Attendance Procedures:
- Work with Student Enrollment Specialist to ensure that attendance is entered in a timely fashion
- Ensure that the sign in/sign out system is being followed
Enrollment Process:
- Ensure a seamless enrollment process that is easy for students and parents to navigate
- Check that cumulative files are consistent and in order with all necessary documents
- Coordinate with EMIS team
FTE:
- Coordinate and monitor all efforts to reach and maintain budgeted FTE including enrollment events and retention efforts
Marketing:
- The school's calendar possesses one day per month in which an open house or community event is scheduled.
- The school has a community connections binder that is comprised of local businesses, community agencies, and schools that it connects with on a routine basis.
- The school possesses a standard stock of marketing collateral.
- The school completes Marketing BINGO with the support of the Marketing Coordinator
Compliance/Operations:
- Ensure school is compliant with all federal, state, and sponsor requirements including the use of Epicenter
- Monitor and implement a safe environment
- Inspect and maintain the school grounds
Course Close Out:
- Input credits in the SIS from course completion packet and updates the ‘Credits’ tab in Quick Access
- Update the graduation planner with earned credit/credit remaining
- Update the student schedule in the SIS to reflect completed/new course
- Enter the earned credential (if applicable) as a GW record
- File course completion packet in student academic file
CTE/Alternative Pathways:
- Understand and articulate graduation options for the State of Ohio
- Monitor implementation of programs for student success including the maintenance of CTE programs
Daily Schedule:
- Ensure implementation, with fidelity, of the daily schedule
- Manage student schedule flexibility/Credit Flex Plan
- Respect scheduled CTE blocks by not overscheduling academic courses
Discovery:
- Work with the Student Success Coach to ensure that students fully complete the Discovery process prior to starting academic coursework
- Create a Credit Flex Plan or Flexible Schedule in conjunction with the Success Coach and Family Advocate
- Work with Student Success Coach to ensure students in the CBI program are completing Discovery 2 and 3
Graduation Planners:
- Mange the creation and reactivation of Graduation Planner for each student upon enrollment
- Shares with the student “view only” and with the guardian upon request
- Update Graduation Planner when transcripts are received and after each course completion, including test scores and completed Graduation Seals
- Code completed courses as green, in-progress courses as blue, and not attempted courses as white
- Update credits remaining to reflect what the student has left to graduate regardless of credits earned
- Adjust the date each time the Grad Planner is updated
MTSS:
- Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of the school’s MTSS program including PBIS and AIT
- Hold monthly, full-staff MTSS meetings to review student progress in all intervention programs
- Monitor data in Math and ELA intervention programs
Quick Access:
- Manage the ‘All Students’ tab
- Manage the ‘Credits’ tab
- Manage the ‘CTE’ tab
- Manage the ‘MTSS’ tab
- Manage the ‘Potential Grads’ tab
School Store/ Uniform
- All Non-Instructional Staff Members in Uniform*
- School’s SRO Stocks and Maintains the school’s PBIS Store
Retention:
- Monitor the process of documenting school absences from the issuance of attendance letters to home visits to scheduling AIT meetings to create intervention plans
Student Academic Achievement:
- Conduct and monitor data from all BLT and TBT sessions
- Monitor and analyze data from Tier 2 and Tier 3 MTSS interventions
- Write and implement a school One Plan with the team
- Evaluate progress on One Plan action steps with the entire staff quarterly
- Make notation on progress in Ed Steps and pivots, as needed, documenting in the One Plan with evidence
- Conduct classroom walkthroughs with pre and post conferences with a focus on keeping an eye on instructional practices and professional development needs
- Implement and monitor all site-based data including the Quick Access and accountability data (ie Graduation Cohorts)
Staff Evaluations:
- Will be responsible for some or all of the staff evaluations
Student Discipline:
- Execute all discipline and provide due process to students in the instance of school rule violations
- Work with the IS and SpEd Coordinator when Manifestation Determination hearings are required
- Ensure that all discipline actions align with Board discipline policies
Student Onboarding:
- Determine if a student is enrolled in a CBI or CTE program
Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborate closely with Central Support and Special Education services (i.e. IEPs,/ETRs)
- Work to maintain “Meets Standard” or higher on Ohio’s DORP Report Card by becoming thoroughly knowledgeable in the RC formulas, track progress constantly, and execute targeted plans to improve in needed areas
- Track the progress of all students, with special attention on upper classmen, providing them the coaching needed for them to progress in their graduation and career plan and score well on required tests
- Increase teachers’ capacity to analyze research to make instructional decisions
- Advance teachers’ understanding and use of various strategies to assess student progress toward established goals and to improve teaching practice
- Act as a resource to support job-embedded professional learning and improved academic achievement in the school
- Facilitate a variety of in-depth, sustained professional learning experience aligned with the school improvement goals for student achievement
- Provide classroom-based support for implementation of new and/or refined instructional practices
- Create structures and processes for collaborative work that promote collegiality and shared responsibility
- Keep school board and other stakeholders aware of activities, progress, obstacles and successes in student achievement and improved teacher practice
- Create a positive and professional school environment that welcomes learners and their families
- Route inquiries and requests to or from board members, sponsors, and Ohio Department of Education to the Regional Director of Leader Support
- Uphold operational, academic, and personnel policies with the support of FusionEd Central Support Team
- Work as an ambassador between the school, FusionEd, and the local community, maintain a positive and professional reputation
- Collaborate with FusionEd Central Support Team to manage the Imprest account, complying with all expense handling and reporting
- Attend regular Principal training, mentorship, and support meetings.
- Perform all other duties as assigned