Principal - Elementary School

Principal - Elementary School

Community Unit School District 300

The building principal is responsible for setting and leading the vision to achieve and sustain high levels of student achievement. The principal’s role is to inspire, lead, guide, and direct every member of the building’s instructional and support services teams. The principal provides instructional leadership and organizational management/supervision to support the educational development of each student in alignment with national, state, and local educational goals and requirements.

Mission, Vision, and Core Values

• Execute the district mission that all students will be college or career ready upon graduation at the building level.
• Strategically develop, implement, and evaluate actions to achieve the vision of the school and District 300’s Strategic Plan.
• Articulate, advocate, and cultivate core values that define the school’s culture and stress the imperative of child-centered education; high expectations and student support; equity, inclusiveness, and social justice; openness, caring, and trust; and continuous improvement.

Ethics and Professional Norms

• Models professional, moral, and ethical standards as well as personal integrity in all interactions.
• Lead with interpersonal and communication skills, social-emotional insight, and understanding of all students’ and staff members’ backgrounds and cultures.
• Maintain confidentiality.

Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

• Ensure that each student has equitable access to effective teachers, learning opportunities, academic and social support, and other resources necessary for success.
• Develop student policies and address student misconduct in a positive, fair, and unbiased manner.
• Act with cultural competence and responsiveness in interactions, decision-making, and practice.

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

• Assumes responsibility for the organization, administration, and supervision of the instructional program within the school.
• Ensures that staff members design coherent instruction based upon knowledge of the subject matter, current instructional practices, students, and curriculum goals.
• Ensures instructional and assessment practices that are intellectually challenging, authentic to student experiences, recognize student strengths, and are differentiated and personalized.
• Promotes the effective use of technology in the service of teaching and learning.

Community of Care and Support for Students

• Create and sustain a school environment in which each student is known, accepted and valued, trusted and respected, cared for, and encouraged to be an active and responsible member of the school community.
• Build and maintain a safe, caring, and healthy school environment that meets the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student.
• Implements the district discipline expectations that foster a safe and positive environment for all students and staff, in collaboration with the District level administration.

Professional Capacity of School Personnel

• Recruit, hire, support, develop, and retain effective, diverse and caring teachers and other professional staff and form them into an educationally effective faculty.
• Empower and motivate teachers and staff to the highest levels of professional practice and to continuous learning and improvement.
• Provide an effective staff development program consistent with program evaluation results and school instructional improvement plans.

Professional Community for Teachers and Staff

• Develop workplace conditions for teachers and other professional staff that promote effective professional development, practice, and student learning.
• Establish and sustain a professional culture of engagement and commitment to shared vision, goals, and objectives pertaining to the education of the whole child; high expectations for professional work; ethical and equitable practice; trust and open communication; collaboration, collective efficacy, and continuous individual and organizational learning and improvement.
• Lead, support and promote building-wide Professional Learning Community (PLC) practices to measurably increase…