QUALIFICATIONS: Kentucky Teaching Certificate; experience and such alternatives to the above qualifications as the board may find appropriate and acceptable.
SUPERVISES: Teachers, aides, cooks, janitors and students
JOB GOAL: To use leadership and supervisory skills to promote the educational development of each student.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate in the school.
2. Plans, organizes, and directs implementation of all school activities.
3. Keeps the Superintendent informed of the school's activities and problems.
4. Makes recommendations concerning the school's administration and instruction.
5. Prepares and submits the school's budgetary requests and monitors expenditures of funds.
6. Supervises the maintenance of all required building records and reports.
7. Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists and all other paperwork required or appropriate to the school's administration.
8. Works with various members of the Central Office administrative staff on school problems such as transportation, special services, etc.
9. Keeps his supervisor informed of events and activities of an unusual nature as well as routine matters related to the supervisor's accountability.
10. Assumes responsibility for the implementation and observance of all board policies and regulations by the school's staff and students.
11. Maintains active relationships with students and parents.
12. Budgets school time to provide for the efficient conduct of school instruction and business.
13. Leads in the development, determination of appropriateness and monitoring of the instructional program.
14. Schedules classes within established guidelines to meet student needs.
15. Assists in the development, revision and evaluation of the curriculum.
16. Supervises the guidance program to enhance individual student education and development.
17. Maintains high standards of student conduct and enforces discipline as necessary, according to due process to the rights of students.
18. Establishes guides for proper student conduct and maintaining student discipline.
19. Attends special events held to recognize student achievement, and attends school sponsored activities, functions and athletic events.
20. Maintains and controls the various local funds generated by student activities.
21. Supervises the maintenance of accurate records on the progress and attendance of students.
22. Assumes responsibility for the attendance, conduct, and maintenane of health of students.
23. Assumes responsibility for his own professional growth and development through membership and participation in the affairs of professional organizations, through attendance at regional, state, and national meetings and through enrollment in advanced courses.
24. 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.
25. Supervises all professional, paraprofessional, administrative and non-professional personnel assigned to the school.
26. Participates in the selection and supervision of all school buidling personnel.
27. Supervises the school's teaching process.
28. Approves the master teaching schedule and any special assignments.
29. Orients newly assigned staff members and assists in their development, as appropriate.
30. Evaluates and counsels all staff members regarding their individual and group performance.
31. Conducts meeting of the staff as necessary for the proper functioning of the school.
32. Assist in the professional development and training of teachers, with special responsibility for staff adminsitrative procedures and instructions.
33. Recommends, according to established procedure, the removal of a teacher whose work is unsatisfactory.
34. Makes arrangements for special conferences between parents and teachers.
35. Assumes responsibility for the safety and adminstration of the school plant.
36. Supervises the daily use of the school faciltiies for both academic and nonacademic purposes.
37. Plans and supervises fire drills and an emergency preparedness program.
38. Asserts leadership in times of civil disobedience in school in accordance with established board policy.
39. Provides for adequate inventories of property under his jurisdiction and for the security and accountability for that property.
40. Supervises all activites and programs that are outgrowths of the school's curriculum.
41. Supervises and evaluates the school's extracurricular program.
42. Participates in principals' meeting, negotiations meetings, and such other meetings as are required or appropriate.
43. Serves as an ex officio member of all committees and councils within his school.
44. Cooperates with college and university officials regarding teacher training and preparation.
45. Responds in written and oral requests for information.
46. Assumes responsibility for all official school correspondence and news releases.
47. Establishes and maintains relationships with local community groups and individuals to foster understanding and solicit support for overall school objectives and programs; to interpret board policies and adminstrative directives; and to disucss and resolve individual student problems.
48. Serves as a member of such committees and attends such meetings as directed by the Superintendent.
49. Delegates authority to responsible personnel to assume responsibility for the school in the absence of the principal.
50. Serves as chairman of Site Based Council in the event the school is Site Based managed.
51. Performs such other tasks as may be required by the Superintendent.