Middle School Principal

The following areas describe the domains and capabilities of school leadership that encapsulate the essence of school leadership. The domains are derived from the MKS principal evaluation rubric.

Diagnosis and Planning

• Continuously strives to improve student performance
• Develops a results-oriented strategic plan
• Recruits and develops strong leadership teams

Management and Communication

• Leads by example
• Works closely with Governance and Leaderships teams
• Frequently solicits and uses feedback from students and staff

Curriculum

• Inspires teams to reach measurable, results-oriented year-end goals
• Uses data on grades, attendance, behavior, and other variables to monitor and drive continuous improvement toward goals.
• Boosts morale and a sense of efficacy by getting colleagues to celebrate and own measurable student gains.

Supervision

• Uses all-staff meetings to get teachers to share strategies and become more cohesive.
• Visits approximately 3-5 classrooms a day and gives helpful, face-to-face, and/or written feedback to each teacher within 24 hours.
• Counsels and works with all teachers who need additional guidance

Discipline

• Gets staff buy-in for clear, school-wide student-behavior standards, routines, and consequences.
• Ensures that staff are skilled in positive discipline and sensitive handling of student issues
• Makes families feel welcome and respected and responds to concerns
• Publicly celebrates kindness, effort, and improvement and builds both students' and staff's pride in their school

Management

• Creates/monitors an equitable schedule that maximizes learning, teacher collaboration, and smooth transitions.
• Ensures/supervises smooth, friendly student entry, dismissal, meal times, transitions, and recesses every day.