Principal

Principal & Assistant Principal Job Code : 1010 & 1020

QUALIFICATIONS : Appropriate Kentucky Administrative Certification

Degrees and experience commensurate with job description.

REPORTS TO : Principals report to Superintendent.

Assistant Principals report to Principal.

SUPERVISES : Certified and classified personnel assigned full or part-time to the school.

JOB GOALS : The principal shall have immediate charge and direction of the school and of all school programs to insure its fiscal, academic, and educational effectiveness.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Maintains an effective learning climate in the school.
• Plans classes within established local and state guidelines in order to meet the student's needs.
• Supervises programs to enhance individual student education and development.
• Establishes guidelines for proper student conduct and maintains student discipline.
• Supervises the school's teaching process.
• Plans, organizes and directs implementation of specific school activities (as assigned by principal).
• Initiates, designs, and implements programs to meet specific needs of the school.
• Establishes and maintains favorable relationships with local community groups and individuals to foster understanding and solicit support for overall school objectives and programs.
• Orients newly assigned staff members and assists in their development as appropriate.
• Interprets Board policies and administrative directives; discusses and resolves individual student instructional problems.
• Coordinates and supervises such support services as maintenance, security, food service, recreational programs, financial and accounting services and the like.
• Implements and supervises the school's special education program in an appropriate manner to chair appropriate School Based Admissions and Release Committee meetings.
• Assumes leadership in the direction of the school's co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
• Evaluates and counsels all staff members regarding their individual performance.
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists and all other paperwork required or appropriate to the school's administration.
• Participates in principals' meetings and all other such meetings as are required or appropriate.
• Prepares and submits the school's budgetary requests and monitors expenditure of funds.
• Maintains and accounts for the various funds generated by student activities.
• Cooperates with college and university officials regarding teacher training and preparation.
• Works with appropriate central office administrative staff regarding the needs of the school with respect to personnel, equipment, supplies and curriculum.
• Conducts staff meetings to keep members informed of policy changes and new programs and to implement professional development programs.
• Keeps the superintendent informed of the school's successes, activities and problems.
• Keeps abreast of changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional journals and other publications and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.
• Exerts leadership in the development of professional development programs for all staff members.
• Provides for the proper supervision of pupils at all times.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the superintendent.
• Has immediate charge and direction of the school as mandated under Meade County Board of Education Policy and / or School Council Policies.
• Develops and maintains effective public relations with the school community.

EVALUATION : Performance will be evaluated in accordance with the Board's policy on Evaluation of Certified Personnel. The superintendent and / or designee will evaluate principals. The supervising principal will evaluate assistant principals.