Junior High Principal - Pasadena, United States - Pasadena Christian School

Pasadena Christian School

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Pasadena, United States

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Description

About Pasadena Christian School:

Pasadena Christian School is an independent Christian K-8 school that serves a diverse community ethnically, economically, and in the Christian faith.

Together, we have served the Pasadena area for the past 77 years.

The primary mission of Pasadena Christian School is to provide its students with the spiritual development and academic training, needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Working with the family and the local church, we seek to provide our students with the foundation necessary to become people whose lives reflect an uncompromising commitment to follow Christ, people of unquestioned integrity, and pursue life-long excellence.

Job Summary:

The Junior High Principal at Pasadena Christian School has primary responsibility for the overall leadership to the Junior High department in and through the faculty and staff.

This position must be willing to advance the ministry of Christian Education by effectively managing as a servant leader.

In accomplishing this purpose, the principal will conform to biblical principles and will maintain the highest ethical and professional standards in relating to members of the Pasadena Christian School faculty, staff, parents, students, and community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsible for curriculum and core elective development and review in coordination with the Head of School, teachers, consultants, and Education Committee of the School Board.
Provide leadership for junior high faculty and staff.
Participate along with the Head of School in securing and maintaining a quality staff of teachers.
Work with the Head of School to recommend, revise and update master class schedules for academic and elective courses.
Administer discipline and counseling to include the student handbook.
Build a positive Junior High atmosphere which exhibits kindness, respect, honesty, and love.
Build morale among staff members by being fair and consistent, having an opendoor policy, and seeking to resolve problems as soon as they arise.
Observe students and staff in educational activities and make recommendations for improving programs, techniques, and procedures.
Schedule (enrollment) into classes and manage all FACTS related duties.
Coordinate graduation and all related activities.
Schedule substitutes, including interviewing, managing, and assigning.
Develop a strong spiritual program for students and coordinate when appropriate with the elementary school principal.
Oversee the school budget as it relates to Junior High to include ordering, budgeting, and maintaining accurate accounting records.
Attend leadership meetings with the Head of School.
Attend and assume responsibility for supervision of girls' and boys' athletic events, school related extended field trips and extracurricular school related activities.
Assume a leadership role, in cooperation with PCS leadership, in completing a selfstudy report for the Visiting Committee of the ACSI and WASC and take appropriate action and make appropriate responses to the recommendations of that committee.
Assist the Head of School in determining methods, times, and frequency of standardized testing and reporting to parents, including reporting of grades, test scores and citizenship evaluations of both formal conferences and written reports.
Develop and conduct professional development for teaching staff.
Work with Elementary School Principal and Head of School to plan the school calendar.
Other duties as assigned by the Head of School.
Develop and coordinate all Junior High events:

June - August

JH Curriculum
Back to School Night
Plan JH Chapel for the School Year

September

6th Grade Parent Meeting w/Science Teacher
6th Grade Science Camp
Football & Volleyball Sports Games
8th Grade Parent Meeting w/History Teacher (HS Applications, East Coast Tour, Graduation)
Meet with PUSD for Title II Funds
Send out HS Fair Invitations to High Schools

October - November

Parent Conferences w/JH Teachers
Meet with 8th Grade Students to Discuss HS Options
Schedule High Schools to Visit PCS (La Salle, Maranatha, Mayfield, Sequoyah, FSHA, During lunch break)
Coordinate with High Schools for PCS 8th Grade Student Visits (Maranatha, St. Francis)
High School Applications
High School Fair
Family Life Education (FLE) for JH Students

December