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3.5 - High School Principal Job Description

3.5 - High School Principal Job Description

SERIES 3 - ADMINISTRATION

Oversee all academic programs 7-12.

Curriculum

  • Monitor implementation and effectiveness of curriculum in classrooms.
  • Confer with teachers on curriculum issues.
  • Confer with parents on curriculum issues.
  • Advise BOD on curriculum issues.
  • Research programs and textbook offerings.
  • Work with AAC and other academic committees.
  • Oversee teacher professional development.

Classroom Instruction

  • Observe classroom instruction; document observations.
  • Confer with teachers and provide corrective strategies, as needed.
  • Track academic progress in all academic subjects.
  • Meet with teachers and parents regarding students’ academic performance, as needed.

Assessments

  • Analyze test results; create reports for Board and parent community.

Supervision of Teachers

  • Make hiring, retention and firing decisions for teachers.
  • Manage staff performance improvement.
  • Develop and monitor remediation process for teachers, as needed.
  • Provide evaluations for teachers.

Staff Meetings

  • Lead staff meetings.
  • Arrange for outside training services, as needed.

Principal Meetings

  • Attend District Principal meetings as needed.
  • Attend Charter-School leadership meetings.

District and State Reports

  • Write and submit district and state reports in a timely manner.
  • Write school accountability plan.
  • Complete Assessment Data Interpretation and the development of Data driven

Instructional goals

  • Communication with Board.
  • Prepare LCHS Principal Report to BOD.
  • Advise BOD of relevant issues in timely manner.

Communication with Parents

  • Supervise weekly communications with the parent population.
  • Maintain mass- and targeted communication with school community.

Development of Policies

  • Develop new policies and revisions for BOD as needed.

Salaries and Performance Pay

  • Develop compensation adjustments for all LCHS staff for Headmaster approval.

Supervision of non-educator/office Staff

  • Make hiring and retention decisions.
  • Supervise job performance.
  • Determine areas of responsibility.

Budget

  • Work with Business Manager, advise BOD of relevant issues in a timely manner.

Set goals for LCHS

  • Identify weaknesses.
  • Identify strengths.
  • Manage improvement.
  • Conduct net assessment of LCHS.

Assist in carrying out expansion plans

  • Classrooms.
  • Gymnasium.
  • Engineering labs.
  • Athletic program/facilities.

Carry out innovation improvements

  • Technology.
  • Engineering, science equipment, labs.
  • Establish, expand academic relationships – CSU, Front Range, private sector, etc.
  • Foreign-language.
  • Music program.
  • Theatre.
  • Art.

Foster maturity of House System.

Grow and formalize fund-raising strategies.

Expand media exposure including social media.

Adopted: 12-03-2011