Principal
Avoyelles Parish School Board
- Marksville, LA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work collaboratively with the school community to develop and maintain a shared school vision
- Use school vision to guide decision-making about students and the instructional programs
- Maintain open communication with the school community, and effectively convey high expectations for student learning to the community.
- Recognize, model, and promote effective teaching strategies that enable students to apply what they learn to real-world experiences;
- Encourage and support the use of innovative, researched-based teaching strategies to engage students actively in solving complex problems and methods of student assessment which will enhance learning for all students
- Conduct frequent classroom visits and periodic observations, provide constructive feedback to faculty and staff, and suggest models of effective teaching techniques when needed
- Maintain a safe, secure, clean, and aesthetically pleasing physical school plant
- Establish and/or implement laws, policies, regulations, and procedures that promote effective school operation
- Manage human resources responsibly by selecting and inducting new personnel appropriately, assigning and evaluating all staff effectively, and taking other appropriate steps to build an effective school staff
- Provide ongoing opportunities for staff to reflect on their roles and practices in light of student standards and school goals
- Grow professionally by engaging in professional development activities and making such activities available to others
- Facilitate school-based research and use these and other research findings to plan school improvement initiatives, pace the implementation of these changes, and evaluate their impact on teaching and learning
- Communicate a focused vision for both school and individual professional growth
- Use research and data from multiple sources to design and implement professional development activities
- Provide opportunities for individual and collaborative professional development
- Be visible and involved in the community and treat members of the school community equitably
- lnvolve the school in the community while keeping the school community informed
- Model ethical behavior at both the school and community levels
- Communicate to others expectations of ethical behavior
- Adheres to federal, state, and local policies and regulations
- Adheres to the channel of authority