High School Principal

High School Principal

High School Principal Salary Range: $132,318 - $185,246

Qualifications:

Master's degree with a major in educational leadership, educational supervision, or a related field; doctorate preferred. Eligible or hold a Pennsylvania Principal Certification. Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a school administrator, preferable in an urban, turnaround, and/or high-needs environment. Satisfactory work record & criminal/child abuse clearances (Acts 34 and 151). To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Summary Directs and coordinates educational, administrative, and counseling activities consistent with the charge of improving student achievement by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate administrator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Collaborates in establishing clear approaches to measuring student growth and measures it by individual student. Intentions of ensuring that every student has an opportunity to go to college or post-secondary schooling. Provide transformational leadership necessary to plan, launch, and manage the turnaround process in a chronically underperforming school by designing and implementing strategies to dramatically improve student achievement.

Proven ability to build a positive school culture and climate that supports the whole student. Leveraging research and data to drive initiatives and instruction Ability to build a high-performing staff and leadership team to achieve and sustain results through collaborative efforts. Collaborates in designing and implementing rigorous, transparent, and fair evaluation system for the professional staff that (a) differentiate effectiveness using multiple rating categories that take into account data on student growth as a significant factor, and (b) are designed and developed with principal involvement.

Conducts annual evaluations of the professional and support staff that includes timely and constructive feedback;
Use of the evaluations, at a minimum, to inform decisions regarding developing the professional staff, including providing relevant coaching, induction support, and/or professional development. Collaborates in the development of a comprehensive instructional improvement system, fully aligned to standards, assessments, curriculum frameworks, instruction, resources and materials and interventions. Principal will collaborate with parents, community members, school staff, district administrators, as well as other internal and external stakeholders to implement innovative strategies to accelerate student achievement.

Collaborates in implementing a comprehensive instructional improvement system that includes the expansion and integration of real-time school and district data into the Standards Aligned Systems (SAS) online tool (e.g., diagnostic assessments, voluntary model curriculum) with an interface that provides easy-to-access and interpret information, customized (e.g., teacher, parent) password protected feature and additional applications and tools. Collaborates in conducting a summer staff data review meeting;

quarterly staff data review meeting; bi-weekly leadership data team meeting and audits the weekly teacher collaborative planning meeting. Develops and coordinates educational programs through meetings with staff, review of teachers' activities, and issuance of directives. Confers with teachers, students, and parents concerning educational and behavioral problems in school;
Insures proper placement of students within the overall educational program. Reviews the quarterly early warning system report to assess the effectiveness of interventions in helping at-risk students and to devise new action plans to for newly identified and previously identified at-risk students. Reviews and discusses the school's goals articulated in its school improvement plan and use data to assess whether the…