ELEVATE​/ACE; Accelerating Campus Excellence Elementary School Principal

Openings as of 6/4/2026.

ELEVATE/ACE (Accelerating Campus Excellence) Elementary School Principal

• Position Type:
  Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE)/ Principal (ACE)
• Date Posted: 11/10/2025
• Location:
  
  TBD

Elementary Principal

Reports to:

Executive Director, School Leadership
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Duty Days: 226
Annual Salary: $130,000

Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) is seeking proven, innovative leaders with a track record of driving bold school turnaround and transformation. As a campus principal, you will serve as the educational leader of your assigned campus, responsible for ensuring a safe, high-performing learning environment aligned with FWISD's mission and strategic goals.

The campus Principal directs and manages overall campus operations such that all students regardless of socioeconomic factors are achieving at a high-level. The campus Principal is responsible for leading the campus instructional program ensuring high standards of instruction and student achievement, compliance with district policies, application of instructional programs, and effective operation of all campus activities.

• Resume
• Documented history of academic growth as campus principal with verified data.
• Documentation of past success leading a campus.

• Implements state and District curricula and assessments aligned with state standards, including college and career readiness standards.
• Monitors and ensures high-quality instruction practices among teachers and staff that improve student performance.
• Monitors multiple forms of student data to inform instruction and intervention decisions to maximize student achievement.
• Ensures that effective instruction maximizes growth of individual students and student groups, supports equity, and eliminates the achievement gap.
• Embraces a transformational leadership philosophy and uses effective strategies to establish a positive school culture centered on continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
• Leads the turnaround process through the use of research based instructional practices and models that have proven to be effective in similar schools.
• Promote the expectation for high-level performance from staff and students and recognize excellence and achievement.
• Develop and monitor instructional and administrative processes to ensure that instructional practices are aligned to evidence-based practices and implemented with fidelity.
• Ensure high-quality instructional materials and resources are implemented with fidelity.
• Utilize campus data for corrective action leading to improvement, as well as for recognition of success.

• Recruits, selects, places, mentors, and retains highly effective teachers and staff.
• Coaches and develops teachers and staff, by giving individual feedback and aligned professional development opportunities.
• Implements collaborative structures, and provides leadership opportunities for effective teachers and staff.
• Provides clear expectations of performance, and conducts rigorous evaluations of all staff using multiple data sources.
• Leads, implements and supports Professional Learning Communities (PLC's) that create positive relationships amongst teachers and administrators while fostering a team culture of open sharing, risk taking and shared leadership, to work effectively as a team.
• Ensure PLCs develop and improve teacher instructional capacity.
• Develop and lead a strong Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) for the campus.

• Solutions-oriented, treats challenges as opportunities, and supports the school and community through continuous improvement.
• Proactively seeks and acts on feedback, reflects on personal growth areas, seeks development opportunities, and changes practice in ways that improves student outcomes.
• Communicates and develops productive relationships with campus students, staff, and community.
• Adheres to the Code of Ethics and Standards Practices for Texas Educators.

• Develops, implements, and sustains a shared vision of high expectations for all students and staff, including stressing the importance of daily attendance for both students and staff.
• Establishes, reinforces, and monitors clear expectations for adult, staff, and student conduct, including social and emotional supports.
• Engages families and community members in meaningful student learning experiences.
• Creates a safe school environment that ensures the social, emotional, and physical well-being of staff and students.
• Applies a variety of student discipline techniques to meet the behavioral and academic needs of individual students.
• Enhance students' social, emotional, behavioral, and academic achievement.
• Act as campus behavior coordinator in accordance with state laws and regulations.
• Ensure that school rules are uniformly applied and that student discipline is appropriate and equitable in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct and student handbook.
• Follow all policies,…