City School District of New Rochelle
Embracing Diversity: Driving Success
Job Description:
The City School District of New Rochelle is seeking a Full-time, probationary Middle School Principal opportunity within the dynamic City School District of New Rochelle. ****PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY****
The Principal is the educational leader at the school and creates and maintains a positive, safe, and high-standards learning environment, supervising building faculty and staff, and managing all resources in accordance with the District’s mission, goals, and policies. The Principal provides effective evaluation and professional coaching to instructional and support staff; develops and implements professional learning communities. Regularly reviews lesson plans for alignment to core knowledge, skills, and competencies.
Supervisory Relationship
The principal supervises the assistant principal, licensed teachers, and support staff.
Essential Functions
- Provides leadership to the school community in developing and focusing on a shared vision, mission, goals, and continuous school improvement planning consistent with the District vision, goals, and strategic roadmap.
- Ensures the effective delivery of an instructional program that meets the needs of all students.
- Provides leadership to the faculty in the ongoing process of evaluating the effectiveness and directing the improvement of educational programming. Takes responsibility for students’ learning and achievement.
- Provides leadership in the analysis of current programs and student achievement results and the integration of this analysis into curriculum development activities aligned with District/school goals.
- Provides leadership to the creation and maintenance of a positive, safe, and orderly learning environment for all students, faculty, and staff.
- Implements systems, processes, and planning functions that are consistent with effective organizational leadership, academic achievement, climate safety, budget efficiency, and employee/student performance.
- Effectively responds to and resolves issues that arise in and outside the school environment that affect the successful operation of the school and student programming. Models good human relations skills and interacts positively with all facets of the school community.
- Actively participates in a variety of meetings within the school, District, neighborhood, and community in a manner that effectively integrates the school into the fabric of the New Rochelle community.
- Communicates effectively with parents and involves them in aspects of the school.
- Facilitates collaborative partnerships with outside agencies and businesses that promote a positive learning environment for all students.
- Supervises and evaluates all faculty and staff assigned to the building and effectively addresses all performance issues in a manner consistent with District policy and practice.
- Plans, develops, implements, and monitors a school budget consistent with collaboratively identified building goals and improvement initiatives.
- Coordinates building maintenance in cooperation with the Facilities Department.
- Provide consistent emphasis on and support for post-secondary and career exploration and preparation through both formal and informal student events and activities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Current knowledge of school improvement planning and characteristics of effective school operations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral presentations.
- Working knowledge of New York State standards, benchmarks, and assessments.
- Demonstrated ability of strategies for the implementation of technology in the delivery of instruction to effectively supervise and evaluate professional staff.
- Demonstrated understanding and ability to facilitate the use of appropriate community resources in meeting the needs of students and families.
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse ethnic and socioeconomic communities.
- Familiar with special education programming, including inclusion, discipline, IEP development and implementation, and IDEA Re-authorization.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and establish priorities for action in conjunction with others.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent judgments and decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to perform effectively in an atmosphere of multiple and conflicting demands