Principal Bellevue East High School

Overview

EXPERIENCE SUGGESTED:
The person holding this position should have had administrative experience, preferably as a Principal or Assistant Principal in a secondary school.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

As the Chief Administrative Officer of a secondary school, the Principal is responsible for every phase of the school’s program and personnel: the educational program, professional staff, classified staff, student body, plant maintenance, and community relations.

• Instructional Program: Provides leadership in the improvement, development and evaluation of the instructional program.
• Provides leadership in the development of a climate for educational change, the implementation of new programs and the assessment of innovations.
• Supervises the instructional program and its development.
• Supervises the construction of the master instructional schedule and the assignment of professional staff within the schedule.
• Supervises the development of special instructional schedules, examination schedules and special program schedules.
• Responsible for the content of all curriculums in the building.
• Evaluates all educational programs in the building.
• Develops systems or models to collect achievement and social skills data for the building.
• Coordinates the school wide school improvement planning and implementation process for the building.
• Plans and implements graduation and honors night.
• Coordinates and directs the high ability learner program.

• Professional Staff: Recommends selection, in cooperation with the Executive Director of Personnel, of new staff members.
• Assigns specific duties to all professional staff members.
• Provides leadership for the professional growth of the staff by developing and implementing inservice programs.
• Administers the system of instructional evaluation as established by district policy, through individual and group conferences with teachers and classroom observation.
• Develops an effective system of communication through faculty meetings, team meetings, departmental meetings, individual contacts and staff bulletins.
• Provides for the maintenance of appropriate records on professional personnel.
• Develops the building policy handbook, informs teachers of board policies and administrative regulations and interprets both to the professional staff.
• Assists in evaluating core and elective instructional staff.
• Evaluates assistant principals and deans.
• Recommends termination or discipline for employees whose work is unsatisfactory.

• Student Personnel: Supervises enrollment, registration, and attendance procedures.
• Provides for the maintenance, confidentiality, and protection of student records.
• Ensures the provision of adequate guidance and counseling services.
• Ensures the provision of adequate health services.
• Supervises the disciplinary process.
• Supervises the assignment of academic credit.
• Supervises and develops revisions annually of the student handbook and reviews student publications.
• Provides for the administration of an adequate student activity program and supervises the administration of student accounts.
• Conducts building level discipline hearings as appropriate.
• Develops the supervisory plan for the building to ensure the safety of students and staff.
• Assigns deans to building zones for daily monitoring and readjustment of the supervisory plan.
• Supervises the maintenance of attendance records.
• Implements the district policies, regulations and procedures for school attendance.
• Develops building policies and procedures related to student discipline and control.

• Student Relations: Provides sufficient time and adequate privacy for parent/teacher or parent/principal conferences.
• Administers a community relations program in order to ensure a cooperative atmosphere between the school and the home.
• Reviews news releases and bulletins which are distributed to the community or to specific parent or civic groups.
• Ensure transition programs are in place for students entering the work force and higher education.

• Building and Grounds, Materials and Supplies, School Budget: Provides for the administration of a system for the proper inspection, maintenance, and repair of the buildings and grounds.
• Provides for the administration of a system of approval and responsibility for use of the building by non-school personnel.
• Supervises the administration of a system of inventory, requisition, and distribution of materials and supplies.
• Administers the development of and approves the submission of the annual budget to the appropriate Central Office personnel.
• Oversees the development of the instructional budget and the budgets for the elective departments.

• General Administration: Performs other duties as assigned by the Superintendent of Schools.
• Informs the Superintendent of Schools of the school’s normal and unusual activities and problems.
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of all required building records and reports.
• Works cooperatively with various members of the district staff on school problems of more than school import such as…