Principal - Elementary (2025-26 School Year)

STATUS: Full-time, 260 day Certified Administrative Position

REPORTS TO: Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education

POSITION SUMMARY: This position will be part of an educational system focused on developing the skills and talents of all students through rigorous learning experiences, supportive relationships, and relevant real-life applications.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The list of Essential Duties and Responsibilities is not exhaustive and may be supplemented.

• Provide leadership, supervision, and evaluation of the instructional program for the school.
• Provide and/or facilitate training of staff with regard to the most effective practices which lead to higher student achievement regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or prior academic achievement.
• Analyze and interpret school-level data; work with staff to develop School Improvement Plans that contain strategies to improve student learning.
• Interpret and implement Board policies and administrative regulations.
• Lead diverse staff, student body, and the community in development and implementation of building-level goals focused on the improvement of student learning.
• Lead staff in development and implementation of District and building-level goals relating to cultural competency and student learning.
• Set building-level priorities in the context of community and District priorities and student/staff needs.
• Establish a school climate which promotes equal opportunities for all students, good conduct, and positive attitudes and values, and accept responsibility for the attendance, conduct, health, and safety of students.
• Participate in the screening, selection, orientation, training, assignment, and reassignment of culturally competent and diverse school staff.
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of all assigned personnel and engage staff in the development of professional growth activities designed to support individual school/District goals and programs in order to improve student learning.
• Assist in the development, ongoing improvement, and implementation of the District and school curricular program.
• Establish a set of culturally responsive standard operating procedures, practices, and routines.
• Oversee the school's extracurricular program.
• Supervise the maintenance and operation of the building, grounds, and property assigned to the building.
• Plan and develop the school's budget with input from staff, allocate and adjust fiscal and material resources, assure timely completion of reports, and record maintenance for all school programs.
• Provide for effective staff communication; collaborate and resolve conflicts with others.
• Work cooperatively with other administrators; advise academic manager and other appropriate District administrators of progress, problems, and other information regarding the school's program.

POSITION EXPECTATIONS:

• Demonstrated success in philosophy, curriculum, and instruction at the position’s grade level, including an understanding of a culturally responsive instructional process and a variety of instructional techniques, as well as a commitment to the improvement of instructional programs.
• Demonstrated success in leading the improvement of student learning, as evidenced by the improvement of school-based and/or District-based data points.
• Demonstrated successful and culturally responsive leadership experiences in staff leadership, supervision, and evaluation, and demonstrated ability to work effectively with teachers to improve instruction.
• Demonstrated ability and desire to establish positive relationships with persons regardless of race, gender, physical limitation, sexual orientation, or religious belief, with an active commitment to equal opportunity for all students and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to foster an environment that focuses on quality results while motivating, developing, and supporting a diverse staff, encouraging continuous improvement, and working effectively as a member of a diverse team.
• Possesses a sense of vision and projects that sense, involves others in accomplishing goals and solving problems, and interacts with diverse groups successfully.
• Demonstrated understanding of the change process and its relationship to current trends in education at the position’s grade level.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in planning, scheduling, and allocating resources, reaching logical conclusions and making high-quality decisions using appropriate decision-making processes, and accepting responsibility for actions and consequences.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in using computer technologies to enhance instruction and to manage building functions.
• Demonstrated success in exercising good judgment, insight, self-awareness, integrity, and cultural responsiveness when interacting with diverse employees, students, and patrons.
• Demonstrated commitment and ability to continue one’s own lifelong learning, to develop talent and leadership skills in others, to provide critical feedback, and to receive critical feedback in order to maintain high standards for one’s self and one’s school.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form with the ability to make clear, persuasive presentations to diverse groups.
• Demonstrated success incorporating culturally competent strategies and utilizing culturally responsive communication and engagement strategies with all members of the school community.
• Demonstrated effectiveness representing the school in the community through business partnerships and activities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Shall hold a Master's Degree from a fully accredited university.
• At least three (3) classroom teaching experience, preferred.
• At least three (3) years assistant principal experience, preferred.
• Shall hold a Missouri Principal's Certificate for grades K-8.