Elementary, Middle, and High School Principals

Elementary, Middle, and High School Principals typically perform the following tasks: • Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues. • Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems. • Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements. • Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement. • Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives. • Enforce discipline and attendance rules. • Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff. • Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff. • Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions. • Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out. • Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. • Create school improvement plans, using student performance data. • Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases. • Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding. • Plan and develop instructional methods and content for educational, vocational, or student activity programs. • Participate in special education-related activities, such as attending meetings and providing support to special educators throughout the district. • Recommend personnel actions related to programs and services. • Prepare, maintain, or oversee the preparation and maintenance of attendance, activity, planning, or personnel reports and records. • Teach classes or courses to students. • Review and approve new programs, or recommend modifications to existing programs, submitting program proposals for school board approval as necessary.