Principal; Porter

Position Details

Principal (Porter) – Job

Position Type:
Admin Campus - Principal/Elementary Principal

Pay Grade: 4

Shift Type:
Full Time

Wage/Hour Status:
Exempt

Reports To:

Executive Director – Leadership Development

Employment Begins:
As soon as possible

• To provide leadership which maximizes student achievement through collaborative visioning, strategic planning, risk taking, and decision making while maintaining professional ethics and personal integrity.

• Master's Degree
• Administrator Certificate

• Demonstrate effective communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills to build strong internal and external support for the campus and district.
• Possess knowledge and understanding of change process, organizational development, conflict resolution, and facilitation skills.
• Understand the importance of vision and know how to develop a collaborative vision.
• Expertise to supervise and evaluate all personnel and develop professional growth and staff development plans for all teachers and staff.
• Exhibit expertise to lead collaboratively and plan, develop, and implement an effective instructional system.
• Demonstrate an understanding of classroom management theories and techniques.
• Demonstrate expertise to develop and manage the campus budget.
• Possess understanding of technology and its place in the educational process and the expertise to utilize data to facilitate informed decisions.
• Understand research designs and methods including gathering, analyzing, disaggregating, and interpreting data.
• Demonstrate ability to develop and implement strategic campus improvement plans.
• Appreciate and understand multicultural and ethnic characteristics, as well as other factors leading to diversity.
• Possess knowledge of methods to assess school climate and culture.
• Possess a thorough understanding of child growth and development.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to develop and implement, through a collaborative process, the management of student records, support services, and categorical programs.
• Possess knowledge of all policies and procedures of the MISD.
• Possess the ability to disaggregate data and use it to effectively plan instruction.

• Successful experience as an Administrator or Assistant Administrator.
• Successful experience as a classroom teacher.
• Such alternatives to the listed qualifications as the administration may find appropriate and acceptable.

• Assume administrative responsibility, under the supervision of the Superintendent/Designee, for educational planning, discipline management, supervision, and evaluation of the educational programs of the school unit.
• Develop an efficient system for interviewing applicants for campus positions that assures the placement of the best possible personnel.
• Submit recommendations to the Superintendent/Designee concerning assignment, evaluation, promotion, and dismissal of all personnel assigned to the school unit.
• Establish, through a collaborative effort, the goals and objectives of the instructional program in accordance with school policy and procedure, and in keeping with the stated educational philosophy of the school district.
• Promote professional growth of the faculty by cooperating with the instructional department in planning, organizing, and presenting worthwhile staff development programs which meet the individual and group needs of teachers.
• Lead in planning and developing a testing, evaluation, and guidance program that will meet the unique needs of all students and satisfies all accreditation standards.
• Lead, through a collaborative effort, the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of a Crisis Management Plan that is preventive in nature.
• Lead, through a collaborative effort, in planning, developing, organizing and implementing an effective Site Based Team on his/her campus.
• Lead in the organization, administration, and general supervision of a program of Extra-Curricular activities to develop special interests and abilities of pupils.
• Prepare all reports required by the Texas Education Agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the University…