Position Type: Middle School Principal (Grades 5-8)
Date Posted: 5/10/24
Location: La Crescent-Hokah ISD#300
FTE: 1.0
Date Available: 2024-2025 school year
Closing Date: When filled
Qualifications:

• Minnesota Principal K-12 licensure or ability to obtain
• A minimum of five years of teaching experience
• Administrative experience and previous experience as a principal is required
• Experience with middle school focus is preferred
• Ability to plan systematically and effectively
• Ability to develop solid/effective collaborations with others
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have demonstrated ability to effectively address middle school student behavior and recognize middle school student achievements

Working Conditions:
Office environment
Job Summary:
Mission and Vision:
1. Engages all stakeholders in developing and implementing a shared vision of learning, a solid organizational
mission, and high, measurable goals that prepare every student to succeed in post-secondary education and
become responsible and contributing citizens.
2. Articulates a vision and develops implementation strategies for change that result in measurable achievement
gains for all students and close achievement gaps.
3. Fosters a shared commitment to high expectations for student achievement, high standards of teaching and
learning, and a culturally competent environment where diversity is valued.
4. Establishes rigorous, measurable goals for instructional program decisions and staff learning experiences
consistent with the school’s mission, vision, and core beliefs.
5. Builds a strong and positive sense of community in the school by honoring the essential roles of race and culture,
its traditions, artifacts, symbols, values, and norms, as a contributor to student and school success.
Instructional Leadership:
1. Facilitates developing and communicating a shared vision and school culture of effective teaching and
instructional practices that reflect high expectations, engage all students, and accommodate diverse learning
styles, needs, interests, and readiness levels.
2. Provides the structure and opportunity for developing, aligning, implementing, and evaluating relevant and
rigorous curricula tied to state academic college and career readiness standards.
3. Collaborates with teachers to examine student and school data to measure student learning and growth, identify
achievement gaps, and develop strategic interventions that improve learning and close identified gaps.
4. Facilitates reflective practice, inquiry, and action research to identify and monitor the impact of interventions
and determine high-yield instructional strategies that improve student learning.
5. Supports the need for quality, collaborative staff learning experiences guided by data and research, planned by
staff, job-embedded, and based on the school’s learning needs.
6. Oversees all co-curricular programs offered by the school.
Human Resources:
1. Develops a strategic action plan with staff that includes targets to improve student achievement school-wide and
close achievement gaps with low-performing student groups.
2. Provides timely, appropriate, quality professional development and facilitates learning teams that gather
information, analyze data, examine issues, and develop new approaches to improve teaching and learning.
3. Engages in personal professional development that relates to educational leadership.
4. Implements a cohesive approach to recruitment, placement, induction, and retention of highly qualified and
effective staff.
5. Routinely observes instruction and provides ongoing feedback and coaching to teachers and other staff fairly and
equitably to support professional growth.
6. Provides effective and timely supervision and evaluation aligned with local district goals, state regulations, and
contract provisions. This process facilitates the development, remediation, and/or removal of underperforming
staff members.
Professional and Ethical Relationship:
1. Demonstrates and communicates values, beliefs, and attitudes that make all students' well-being and academic
success the basis for all decision-making.
2. Models appropriate personal, professional, and ethical behavior that is respectful and fair, enhances the school's
and the profession's image, and inspires others to higher levels of leadership and performance.
3. Employs conflict resolution and proactive problem-solving strategies in various situations and circumstances.
4. Demonstrates strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and facilitates groups effectively.
5. Welcomes and honors families and stakeholders by engaging them in meaningful dialogue regarding student
learning, the school's work, and its needs and accomplishments.
6. Ensures that the school complies with local, state, and federal laws, standards, and regulations, as well as local
district and school policies.
Resource Management:
1. Distributes leadership responsibilities, shares decision-making, and supervises daily ongoing management
structures and practices to enhance teaching and learning.
2. Improves organizational performance by making appropriate and sound use of time, technology, management
strategies, and accountability measures, including assessments, to achieve the district and school’s vision,
mission, and goals.
3. Maintains a safe environment by addressing actual and potential challenges to students' and staff's physical and
emotional safety and security that interfere with teaching and learning.
4. Manages the organization, operations, and resources to promote student success and maintain a safe, efficient,
and effective learning environment.
5. Manages a system that meets all the requirements of legal documentation record retention.
6. Develops and implements a budget process that manages fiscal expenditures consistent with district and school
goals, policies, and available resources. The process is focused on and results in improved student achievement.
7. Administers the district employment contracts at the school site.
Application Procedure:

• Apply online at https://www.applitrack.com/isd300/onlineapp/. The application will require the applicant to provide:
• Letter of Interest
• Resume
• Transcripts
• License
• Minimum of three (3) References/Letters of Recommendation

Selection Procedure:
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.