Gabriela Mistral Elementary Principal

Position Type:

  Administration/Principal

Date Posted:

  4/3/2026

Location:

  Mistral Elementary

Closing Date:

  06/30/2026

Mountain View Whisman School District      Job Title: Principal - Elementary (TK-5th Grade)

Classification: Certificated Management      Date Reviewed: March 2021

Work Days: 213 for 2026-2027 school year

Compensation: Range from $191,738 - $235,811

Up to two (2) stipends available for Masters, Doctorate, National Board Certification

Position Description

The School Principal is an important member of the District's management team and reports directly to the Superintendent.

Qualifications

• Candidates should hold a preliminary or clear California Administrative Services Credential
• Spanish - desired
• Commitment to maintaining and strengthening the District's quality instructional program.
• Effective leadership experience at a significant level in a school district
• In-depth knowledge of California frameworks and curriculum alignment for K-8 schools
• Understanding of and experience with budget management
• Understanding of student attendance, SARB and Truancy Court
• Effective communication skills with individuals and groups
• Experience with a wide range of staff development activities
• Experience with categorical programs, at-risk students and special needs students
• Effective skills to guide problem-solving and decision making
• Experience with multicultural student populations
• Ability to monitor student policy and discipline 
• Ability to supervise student and parent extra-curricular activities
• Ability to work with diverse groups of teachers
• Ability to work with District's Administrative Team
• Excellent organizational skills
• Sense of humor
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn Continuous Improvement strategies
• Candidates should possess exemplary personal qualities essential to this highly visible leadership position and should hold the highest expectations for the performance of self, staff, and students.

Examples of Duties & Responsibilities

• Establishes an effective learning climate
• Monitors and supports program implementation for increased student achievement as outlined in the school site plan
• Coordinates tasks in the organization and improvement of instruction
• Establishes and monitors student policies and discipline
• Counseling of individual students as needed
• May participate in extra-curricular activities, including parent activities
• Monitors student attendance
• Evaluates educational programs
• Coordinates, supervises and evaluates staff
• Assists staff and cooperatively works with specialists assigned to the school in planning, organizing and implementing programs at the site
• Prepares and administers school budget
• Maintains a positive relationship between the school and community

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is continuously required to speak and listen for extended periods.
• The employee is also required
• to sit or stand for long periods, and to regularly walk; use hands or fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee is further required to have the physical, mental, and emotional stamina to fully perform the duties and responsibilities of the position, and the mental acuity to collect, evaluate, and interpret data; to reason; to define problems; to establish facts; to draw valid conclusions; and to make effective judgments and decisions.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not exhaustive of the duties performed or that may be performed by this position

Supervised by: Superintendent or Designee

Evaluated by: Superintendent or Designee

The Mountain View Whisman School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, military status or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. 

The Mountain View Whisman School District requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying.

Questions or complaints of alleged discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying, equity or Title IX equity and compliance concerns should be directed to Erin Green at 650-526-3500, 1400 Montecito Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043, or egreen@mvwsd.org.