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Middle School Principal

St. Francis Indian School AKA Sicangu Oyate Ho Inc.

St. Francis, SD

Posted/Updated: Today

Job Description

Job Goals:

  1. Make the school facility an attractive, pleasant and productive place in which to work and learn.

  1. Develops, interprets, and enforces regulations that are in agreement with The Board of Education Policies as interpreted by central administration, that improve school efficiency and support educational effort.

  1. Maintains a program for personnel and staff’s professional growth, cooperation and self-renewal that stimulates creativity and innovation.

  1. Develops, maintains, systematically evaluates, and improves programs that enhance student learning, and respond to student and community needs, and that reflect the participation of those effected in their development.

  1. To utilize and maintain plant facilities efficiently to provide appropriate environment and reasonable health and safety standards.

  1. To institute and maintain a program of community-staff-student relations that promotes effective communication and participation and that fosters positive human relations and good morale.

  1. Implements and executes systems of budget planning, record keeping, and report making that serve the needs of the school and community.

General Duties:

  1. Administers the school and its instructional program in all its facets.

  1. Coordinates and evaluates the school’s pupil personnel services.

  1. Coordinates, evaluates and supervises the full range of extra-curricular activities.

  1. Assumes responsibilities for the attendance, conduct, and health of the students.

  1. Interprets the school’s program to the community and enlist the participation of the community in school life.

  1. Provides leadership in moments of school crisis and civil disobedience.

  1. Assists in the on-going improvement of the school curriculum.

  1. Lead in the development, determination and appropriateness, and monitoring of the instructional program.

  1. Provide the adequate inventories of property under his jurisdiction and for the security of and accountability for the property.

  1. Be responsible for final approval of the master teaching schedule and for special assignments.

  1. Be responsible for all official school correspondence and news releases.

  1. Report to supervisor the Principals absence for illness and for planned absences on one day or longer for both professional and personal reasons.

  1. Supervises the guidance program to enhance individual student education and development.

  1. Initiates, designs, and implements programs to meet specific needs of the school.

  1. Coordinates and supervises such support services as maintenance, security, food services, recreational programs, financial and accounting functions, library activities, and the like.

  1. Implements and supervises the school special education program.

  1. Participates in principals’ meetings and such other meetings as are required or appropriate.

  1. Prepares and submits the schools’ budgetary requests and monitors expenditures of funds.

  1. Attends special events held to recognize student achievement, and attends school sponsored activities, function, and athletic events.

  1. Maintains and controls the various local funds generated by student activities.

  1. Cooperates with college and university officials regarding teacher trainings and preparation.

  1. Works with various members of the central administration staff on school programs of more than in-school importance, such as transportation, special services, and the like.

  1. Conducts staff meetings to keep members informed of policy changes, new programs and the like.

  1. Keeps the superintendent informed of the schools’ activities and problems.

  1. Keeps abreast of changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional journals and other publications, and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.

  1. Studies the educational needs of the neighborhood served by the school and develops plans for meeting them.

  1. Exerts leadership in the adaptation of the general program of education approved for the school to meet the particular needs of the community served.

  1. Directs the activities of school professional and non-professional staff members in the performance of their duties.

  1. Supervises the instructional staff in the development and implementation of curriculum and student activities.

  1. Reports to appropriate central office administrative officers regarding the needs of the school with respect to personnel, equipment, supplies, and curriculum.

  1. Develop a program of public relations in order to further the communities understanding and support of the educational program.

  1. Implements Board policies to include the ARRA & RESTURTURING/NAPHLAC school improvement initiative and administrative rules and regulations relating to the school.

  1. Fosters good inter-personal relations among students and staff.

  1. Promotes positive action towards the realization of the school objectives through efficient procedures, extra-curricular programs, and the establishment of staff, students, and community committees.

  1. Keeps abreast of trends, developments, and research as they pertain to education and school operation.

  1. Observes the day-to-day management of the school, board policies, and administrative regulations, budget limitations, and employee and other contracts.

  1. Assists in the formulation of curriculum and other objectives for the school programs.

  1. Develops methods for evaluating student progress towards stated educational objectives.

  1. Supervises, evaluates and counsels all professional, paraprofessional, administrative and non-professional personnel attached to the school.

  1. Assists in the recruiting, screening, hiring, training, assigning, and evaluating of the schools’ professional staff.

  1. Assumes responsibility for the safety and administration of the school plant.

  1. Delegate’s authority to responsible personnel to assume responsibility for the school in the absence of the principal.

  1. Budgets school time to provide for the efficient contact of school instruction and business.

  1. Plans and supervises fire drills and an emergency preparedness program.

  1. Maintains high standards of student conduct and enforces discipline as necessary, according to the process to the rights of students.

  1. Supervised the maintenance of accurate records on the progress and attendance of students.

  1. Arrange for special conferences between parents and teachers.

  1. Recommend the removal of a teacher whose work is unsatisfactory, according to established procedures.

  1. Responsible for supervision and direction of instruction, curriculum coordination and revision. Responsible for providing proper course of study for all students.

  1. Initiate suspension and expulsion procedure. Directly supervise personnel at extra-curricular activities involving his particular area, during at home activities.

  1. May sit in on personnel selection committee meetings when concerns are relevant to his area.

  1. The Principal makes determinations as to who will or will not participate in any school activity.

  1. Decide on the general methods of instruction after consultation with the appropriate curriculum committee.

  1. Directs instruction, guidance, discipline, promotion and graduation of all students.

  1. Schedules classes and assigns space.

  1. Preforms any other duties as assigned by the superintendent in line with the primary responsibilities.

  1. Establishes criteria for student into the alternative education program and administers the admissions procedure.

  1. Formulates and articulates the educational philosophy that guides the program.

  1. Recruits potential teachers for the program from the regular teaching staff and conducts an annual in-service training workshop for those assigned to the program.

  1. Assumes responsibility for the collection, review, and submission of all forms and reports relative to the program to the administration, the board, and to the state agencies.

  1. Supervises all personnel in the alternative education program, and counsels them regularly on both a formal and an informal basis.

  1. Meets with students enrolled in the program for the purpose of counseling and evaluation.

  1. Interprets the alternative education program to the student body at large, to the schools’ staff, to the administration, to the board and to the public.

  1. Adheres to all the policies and procedures incorporated by the Sicangu Oyate Ho. Inc.