Principal - Elementary (2026-2027) JobID: 7257
Position Type: Leading-Campus Administrators/Principal
Date Posted: 1/23/2026
Location: To Be Determined
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Additional Information:
Fort Worth ISD is seeking a results-driven principal to lead a school community in alignment with our districts Strategic Plan and commitment to academic excellence. As a key instructional leader, you will champion high-quality instruction, data-driven decision-making, and a culture of excellence and equity to ensure all students develop strong foundations for long-term success.
In Fort Worth ISD, principals play a critical role in implementing rigorous academic programs, developing strong educators, and fostering meaningful family and community engagement. The ideal candidate will be a strategic, equity-focused leader with a proven ability to drive student achievement, cultivate a positive school culture, and ensure effective instructional practices that strengthen literacy and learning in all subject areas.
If you are passionate about inspiring educators, empowering students, and making a lasting impact, we invite you to join Fort Worth ISD in shaping the future of education.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Effective Instruction • Implements highly effective routines, instructional strategies, and experiences for all students across all core content areas. • Implements highly effective, evidence-based literacy practices and initiatives embedded into the campus improvement plan, ensuring robust instructional practices and targeted interventions support students in achieving grade-level reading proficiency. • Collects, analyzes, and monitors multiple forms of data to inform instruction, and intervention decisions and maximize growth and achievement for all student groups. • Leverages resources effectively to respond in a timely manner to all students needs. • 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. • Ensures the use of student-level data to drive continuous improvement, ensuring every student has sufficient opportunity to meet and exceed standards. • Ensures daily demonstrations of student learning inform data-driven instruction and reinforce high-quality Tier 1 teaching practices to assess student mastery of state standards. • Ensures fidelity to high-quality instructional materials by promoting teacher lesson internalization and alignment with state standards, assessments, and district curricula. • Facilitates access to high-quality instructional resources and professional development.
Positive School Culture • Aligns the Fort Worth ISDs vision, mission, and goals to a safe environment and high expectations. • Establishes and communicates clear expectations and systems for behaviors, including social and emotional supports. • Establishes and implements a shared vision and culture of collective responsibility with high expectations for staff and students. • Communicates, collaborates, and builds strong relationships with teachers, staff, students, and parents, and community and business partners. • Leads strategies to proactively provide and coordinate student support services. • Involves and coordinates family and community involvement in productive activities.
Effective, Well-Supported Teachers • Recruits, selects, assigns, and inducts highly effective educators. • Conducts rigorous and calibrated observations. • Provides support and real-time coaching to promote instructional improvement. • Personalizes and aligns professional development. • Coaches and develops teachers by providing actionable feedback to improve the quality of instruction.
Effective School Leadership and Planning • Creates a high-performing, skilled leadership team through real-time coaching, observations, and professional development opportunities to increase student achievement and attendance. • Adheres to and applies the Code of Ethics and Standard Practices for Texas Educators. • Addresses leadership and instructional priorities through focused time and calendar meetings. • Leads focused planning processes with strategic monitoring of outcomes. • Productively manages change processes. • Models personal commitment to developing self and others. • Develops and maintains positive relationships with all stakeholders. • Strategically plans and ensures campus operations and resources promote the academic success and well-being of each student. • Manages resources (people, financial, equipment) effectively to support the organizational goals.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Supervises and evaluates the performance of staff assigned to campus, including assistant principals, teachers, counselors, librarians, instructional aides, clerical support staff, and custodians.
Personal Work Relationships
Maintains a commitment to the districts mission, vision, and strategic goals. Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct, and work ethic. Develops and uses effective conflict-management and consensus-building skills. Demonstrates high-quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer. Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and performs as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.
Other Duties as Assigned
Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in accordance with Board rules, policies, and regulations. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required.
Minimum Required Qualifications
Experience
Language
Bilingual proficiency (English/Spanish) preferred in some settings.