Elementary School Principal Resume

EXCEPTIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

Proven educator with a commitment to student growth, development, and academic excellence

Dynamic professional with expertise in leading bilingual, special, and regular education students, staff, and daily operations at a K-5 urban elementary school. Focus on top academic performance and high standards of operation. Expertise in turning around low-performing schools. Demonstrated success in development of key support services and instructional programs focused on academic improvement, strategic reform, and student achievement.

Areas of Excellence:

> Student Achievement
> Policies/Procedures
> Civic Involvement
> Performance Management
> Parental Involvement
> Fiscal Management
> Data-Driven Decision Making
> Professional Development
> Community Partnerships

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ABC PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Miami, FL – 20xx to Present
Principal, BCD Elementary School, 20xx to Present

Manage daily activities and ensure continuous improvement at this K-5 urban school. Administer the school budget and expenditure authorization. Set rigorous expectations and implement the Whole School Improvement Plan with targeted performance goals and objectives aligned with the district’s benchmarks. Standardize performance by creating a teachers’ handbook focused on best practices and adherence to school policies and procedures. Foster inclusion through newsletters and bulletins; enhance school image by initiating community-sponsored events.

Delivered Results:

> Shifted school performance from underachievement status to making annual yearly progress; implemented the Whole School Improvement Plan and initiated Saturday School for underperformers.

> Played a role in 20/50 students’ earning invitations to attend Boston Public Schools’ advanced work class during each year of tenure.

> Reduced referrals and special education placements by 10% each year. Cut disciplinary incidents, including violence, each year. Decreased suspensions, referrals to the office, and calls home 43% by implementing the Behavioral Management Plan. Increased parent participation each year by 20%.

> Grew overall student population from under 200 at the start of tenure to over 300.

> Wrote a proposal to improve education through student physical health and received a $250,000 playground grant.

> Initiated the Data Team to assess overall data and facilitate objective, rather than subjective, student/teacher performance evaluations and customized instructional plans. Launched the Instructional Leadership Team to assist in implementation of the school’s instructional program.

> Provided counseling services to over 40 students using social workers from five outside agencies.

Notable Achievements:

> Devised a school schedule that maximized math instruction time.

> Demonstrated the need for additional staff and reevaluated the use of financial expenditures to utilize additional staff to focus on science instruction for students in grades 3 to 5.

> Restructured the daily schedule to better utilize extracurricular staff and provide additional support for students not meeting benchmarks in math and reading.

> Designed a curriculum map to connect the teaching of social studies and reading to address the lack of time available to teach social studies content.

Miami Principal Fellows Program-CDE Elementary School, 20xx to 20xx

Selected to serve as a member of the first Boston Principal Fellows cohort. Worked collaboratively on financial forecasting, budget development, and management of a K-5 school with 680 students and 110 teachers and staff. Spearheaded the charge of providing teachers with student performance data to enhance remedial area identification and individual instruction plan design.

Delivered Results:

> Elevated the level of reading and writing instruction by increasing the number of fourth grade students scoring at proficient by 5%.

> Decreased the number of students scoring at the needs improvement level 3% by aligning with fourth grade teams to address student work and make critical instruction decisions based on key data.

> Increased parental involvement by opening a parent center at the school that grew active base from 5 to 50.

> Reduced behavioral incidents significantly by implementing a cafeteria plan, which included a book club for each grade level and focused students on reading and discussing the same book at lunch tables. Wrote a grant and obtained books for the book club.

> Designed and facilitated workshops and seminars to heighten level of professional development in the areas of use of data to scale up instruction, effective readers’ / writers’ workshops, using MCAS results to impact whole school improvement, and proper usage of assessment tools.

Earlier Roles: First Grade Teacher/Reading Recovery Teacher, J. P. CDE Elementary School, 20xx to 20xx;
Reading Teacher, EFG Elementary School/GHI Middle School, 20xx to 20xx

EDUCATION

XYZ UNIVERSITY, Miami, FL
M.Ed., Educational Leadership, Concentration in Curriculum Development; Certificate in Reading

UNIVERSITY OF XYZ, Miami, FL
B.S., Education

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NISL (National Institute for School Leadership), 20xx
Developing Professional Learning Community Workshop, 20xx
The Principal As Instructional Leader, 20xx
Using the 3-Tier Model to Improve Reading Instruction, 20xx

LICENSURE, AFFILIATIONS, & TECHNICAL SKILLS

Elementary Education 1-6, 2014
Massachusetts Reading Certificate, 2014
Administrative Certification, K-6, 2014
Reading Recovery

Technical Skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Data Base

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