Elementary School Principal

Elementary School Principal

Minimum Qualifications: NYS Certification – SAS, SDA, or SBL.
Starting salary $120,000 with excellent benefits.

Preferred Requirements:
Evidence of successful administrative experience. Strong teaching experience and educational background in reading, writing, and math at the elementary/intermediate level.

Reports to: Superintendent or designee
Supervises: Assistant principal, teachers, pupil personnel staff, paraprofessionals/support staff
Purpose of Position: To utilize leadership, supervisory, and administrative skills to promote the educational development of each student.
Terms of Employment: Twelve-month year. Salary and working conditions in accordance with the agreement between the District and the Queensbury Administrators Association. Performance of this position and its responsibilities will be evaluated annually by the Superintendent or designee as per the NYS PSEL Evaluation plan.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Building leadership: Establishes and promotes high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for self and others;
• Establishes and maintains an emotionally healthy and physically safe environment conducive to the total
  educational development of the students and the professional development of the staff, and provides for
  emergency situations;
• Plans, organizes, coordinates supervision, and directs the implementation of all school-related activities;
• Supervises the maintenance of all required building records and reports;
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists, and all other paperwork required and/or
  appropriate to the school’s administration;
• Assumes responsibilities for the attendance, conduct, and maintenance of the health of students;
• Supervises the daily use of the school facilities for both academic and nonacademic purposes;
• Plans and supervises fire drills and other emergency preparedness drills as required by law and district
  policies and procedures;
• Monitors student arrival, dismissal, lunch and recess daily;
• Provides for adequate inventories of school property and for the security and accountability for that
  property;
• Administers the school budget as approved, authorizes expenditure requests from the approved budget
  and recommends transfers between budget categories as required;
• Assesses condition of school building - Projects space, equipment and facility implications for new
  instructional programs and/or initiatives;
• Keeps the superintendent informed of the school’s activities and problems.

Instructional leadership

• Collaborates with the assistant superintendent for instruction on instructional best practices, strategies
  and professional development needs;
• Establishes and maintains a culture of collegiality within the framework of Professional Learning
  Communities;
• Initiates and encourages teacher use of student data from local and state assessments to improve
  instruction;
• Understands and monitors teachers’ proficiencies and difficulties in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting
  student assessment data and provides professional development and support in the areas of data
  comprehension, data interpretation, instructional decision making and question posing;
• Monitors and oversees the implementation of local and state assessments, produces quarterly data
  reports and attends meetings with the superintendent and assistant superintendent for instruction to
  discuss the student data;
• Assists with the development, revision, and evaluation of the curriculum, including but not limited to
  serving on curriculum committees;
• Supervises the school’s teaching process as outlined in the NYS STEPS Evaluation plan;
• Assists with the development and implementation of 21 st Century classrooms and/or other educational
  technology initiatives;
• Plans and implements programs, strategies, and initiatives which encourage students to achieve to their
  fullest potential. More specifically, these programs, strategies and initiatives translate into high academic
  expectations for all students, reducing out-of-school suspensions, improving student attendance,
  contributing to improved high school graduation rates;
• Supervises all activities and programs that are outgrowths of the school’s curriculum.

Personnel and Employee Relations

• Supervises and evaluates all professional, paraprofessional, administrative, and support personnel
  attached to the school;
• Approves the master teaching schedule and any special assignments;
• Orients newly assigned/hired staff members and assists in their development, as appropriate;
• Conducts staff meetings on a regular basis for proper functioning of the school and to keep staff members
  informed of such things as policy changes and new programs;
• Recommends, according to established procedures, the removal of a teacher or other staff member
  whose work is unsatisfactory;
• Assists with the in-service training/professional development provided on superintendent's conference
  days;
• Assists in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of new staff for the building;
• Delegates authority to responsible personnel to assume responsibility for the school in the absence of the principal.

Student/Parent/Community Relations

• Maintains active two-way communications with students, parents, and the community through the use of
  technology and other media;
• Makes arrangements for special conferences between parents and teachers;
• Supervises and evaluates the school’s extracurricular program, including but not limited to all clubs and
  activities;
• Acts as a liaison between the school and the community, interpreting activities and policies of the school
  and encouraging community participation in school life.