Principal (221 Days)

Dallas Independent School District•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The principal establishes and implements a shared vision and culture of collective responsibility with high expectations for staff and students. The role involves establishing and maintaining a shared vision of success, outlining and tracking clear goals, targets, and strategies aligned to the school vision that continually improve teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. It also includes establishing a culture of continuous improvement and developing and using effective conflict-management and consensus-building skills to make effective decisions that support campus and district goals, as well as developing and implementing strategic plans. The principal develops and supports rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment ensuring each student’s success. This includes ensuring a standards-based and aligned curriculum that meets the needs of all students and student groups, and the implementation of high-quality, effective classroom instructional strategies that improve the performance of all students and student groups, ensuring equity and eliminating achievement gaps. The principal coaches and develops teachers by providing actionable feedback to improve the quality of instruction and ensures the use of student-level data to drive continuous improvement, ensuring every student has sufficient opportunity to meet and exceed standards. Furthermore, the principal fosters and develops the highest level of professional capacity, creating sustainable, collective effectiveness of all campus personnel. This involves recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and retaining high-quality staff, conducting rigorous evaluations of staff for continuous improvement and accountability for results, and training, developing, and supporting a high-performing campus staff. The principal also develops leadership capacity of campus staff and establishes, trains, coaches, and develops effective leadership teams. Finally, the principal strategically plans and ensures campus operations and resources promote the academic success and well-being of each student. This includes managing resources (people, financial, equipment) effectively to support organizational goals, utilizing all funds in compliance with state and federal guidelines while maximizing campus goals, and ensuring campus facilities, equipment, and support systems operate safely, efficiently, and effectively. The principal also establishes organizational structures and practices for all stakeholders that result in the effective and efficient operation of the campus to ensure student achievement and maintains a supportive, secure, and respectful learning environment that ensures the social, emotional, and physical well-being of staff and students. The principal acts ethically and professionally, relentlessly pursuing continual improvement, developing and maintaining positive relationships with all stakeholders, modeling and promoting the highest standard of conduct, ethical principles, and integrity in decision-making, actions, and behaviors, and maintaining personal and professional growth and meaningfully contributing to the growth of the profession.

Requirements

Master’s Degree in Education or a directly related field from an accredited university
Texas standard Principal certificate or mid-management certificate
Five years’ experience in education
Three years of the five years shall be successful experience in a leadership role
Thorough knowledge of the principles, methods, strategies, goals, and objectives of public education
Knowledge of procedures, techniques and strategies pertaining to the administration of school level operation
Ability to effectively plan, organize and coordinate the management functions and activities of school operation
Ability to carry out responsibilities with little or no supervision
Ability to handle multiple priorities with frequent interruptions
Ability to promote a positive, caring climate for learning
Ability to effectively analyze problems, issues and concerns and formulate appropriate alternative solutions
Ability to deal sensitively and fairly with persons from diverse cultural backgrounds
Ability to interact effectively with student, staff, parents, and community members
Organizational, prioritization, communication and interpersonal skills required to achieve the goals of the position

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains a shared vision of success
Outlines and tracks clear goals, targets, and strategies aligned to the school vision that continually improves teacher effectiveness and student outcomes
Establishes a culture of continuous improvement
Develops and uses effective conflict-management and consensus-building skills
Makes effective decisions that support campus and district goals
Develops and implements strategic plans
Ensures a standards-based and aligned curriculum that meets the needs of all students and student groups
Ensures the implementation of high-quality, effective classroom instructional strategies that improve performance of all students and student groups, ensuring equity and eliminating achievement gaps
Coaches and develops teachers by providing actionable feedback to improve the quality of instruction
Ensures the use of student level data to drive continuous improvement ensuring every student has sufficient opportunity to meet and exceed standards
Recruits, hires, mentors, and retains high-quality staff
Conducts rigorous evaluations of staff for continuous improvement and accountability for results
Trains, develops, and supports a high-performing campus staff
Develops leadership capacity of campus staff
Establishes, trains, coaches, and develops effective leadership teams
Manages resources (people, financial, equipment) effectively to support the organizational goals
Utilizes all funds in compliance with state and federal guidelines, while maximizing the goals of the campus
Ensures campus facilities, equipment and support systems operate safely, efficiently and effectively
Establishes organizational structures and practices for all stakeholders that result in the effective and efficient operation of the campus to ensure student achievement
Maintains a supportive, secure, and respectful learning environment that ensures the social, emotional and physical well-being of staff and students
Develops and maintains positive relationships with all stakeholders
Models and promotes the highest standard of conduct, ethical principles and integrity in decision-making, actions, and behaviors
Maintains personal and professional growth and meaningfully contributes to the growth of the profession