High School Principal

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

High School Principal

POSITION INFORMATION:
POSITION TITLE High School Principal
DATE CREATED/AMENDED 6/22/21; 3/1/2025
DEPARTMENT Administration
LOCATION Rock Island High School
FULL-TIME/PART-TIME Full-Time
APPOINTMENT TERM 260/days
FLSA:EXEMPT Exempt
REPORTS TO: Superintendent
OTHER INFORMATION Salary – Level 4 Administration
$137,457-163,015

POSITION SUMMARY INFORMATION: Essential Duties and Requirement Details
Under the Superintendent’s direction, the High School Principal is responsible for the school’s performance and operations. The High School Principal’s primary focus is improving instruction and ensuring academic success for all scholars. The High School Principal supports research-based teaching methods, ensures safety, monitors scholar achievement, promotes family engagement, manages the budget, hires and evaluates staff, and oversees building operations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Instructional Leadership
Leads all staff in a continuous effort to improve the educational programs of the school.
Oversees the planning, and implementation of orientation and professional development programs for all staff.
Provides leadership that ensures curriculum is consistent with State and District standards, challenges scholars through rigor and relevance, and utilizes relevant assessments to determine where learning has occurred and re-teaching is required.
Conducts regular formative observations of teachers and staff.
Knows and is able to identify best instructional practices, and provides coaching in the use of effective instructional strategies.
Assesses the educational achievement of scholars in relation to their learning potential.
Facilitates a building leadership team that focuses on the improvement of teaching and learning for all scholars.

School Improvement
Facilitates the development of teacher capacity within grade level teams and curricular departments to function as effective groups with action plans to accomplish specific scholar achievement goals.
Guides grade level teams and departments in the development of common formative and summative assessments related to learning targets, stressing the appropriate use of each, and working with teachers to analyze results to improve scholar achievement.
Facilitates dialogue with staff on effective grading practices, with particular emphasis on how teachers can adapt grading practices to meet the overall district goal of having grades be a meaningful representation of what scholars know and are able to do based on established learning targets.
Facilitates and participates in the design and implementation of a problem-solving process that includes a specific and purposeful emphasis on data collection and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).
Facilitates a decision-making process in which the group develops essential outcomes related to the school’s report card strategies, learning targets, common formative and summative assessments, instructional pacing guides, and differentiated instructional strategies.

Personnel Management
Recommends to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Services the employment, assignment, promotion, and dismissal of all instructional and non-instructional personnel.
Supervises and is responsible for implementation of the evaluation plan and procedures for all staff.
Resolves faculty and staff interpersonal conflicts in accordance with District policy and in a manner designed to foster cooperation among staff members.

Management of Fiscal, Administrative, and Facilities Functions
Facilitates the development of the school and departmental budgets under the leadership of the Chief Financial Officer and monitors monthly departmental budgets.
Develops and monitors a system to manage facilities in collaboration with the District’s Operations and Maintenance Department.

Student Management
Maintains an orderly and safe atmosphere in the high school building(s).
Develops and monitors a school behavior plan that emphasizes best-practices in Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Restorative Practices that align with the Code of Conduct.

School and Community Relations
Develops and implements programs designed to facilitate family and community awareness of school activities, policies, procedures, and scholar achievement.
Regularly represents the school at school and community functions.
Maintains effective working relationships with governmental agencies and institutions that partner with the school district, as directed by the Superintendent.
Assumes responsibility for assuring that the practices of the schools are aligned with Federal and State regulations, and regional accreditation organizations.
Attends Board of Education meetings as necessary and appropriate.
Facilitates and sustains open dialogue with families to maximize family involvement in all aspects of the educational process including; improvement of instruction; school climate; athletics and extracurricular activities.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Supervises the leadership team of the school to include assistant principals and deans.
Supervise teachers and those who support teachers.
Supervises external partners assigned to the high school (resource officers, volunteers, etc.).
Delegates supervision, as necessary, for those who support teachers (i.e. hall monitors, security staff, custodians, secretaries, etc.).

Required Education:
Master’s Degree
Doctorate Degree preferred

Required Qualifications:
5 years of teaching experience
3 years of secondary school administrative experience
Experience understanding and working with scholars from diverse backgrounds

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience as a principal
Experience as a secondary teacher

Certifications, and Licenses:
Professional Educator License (PEL)
General Administrative or Principal Endorsement

Physical Demands/Work Environment:
The usual and customary methods of performing the job’s functions require the following physical demands: occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; and significant fine finger dexterity. Generally the job requires 20% sitting, 40% walking, and 40% standing. The job is performed under minimal temperature variations and is generally a hazard-free environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.