Learn about the daily academic and administrative operations a principal oversees
Learn about the daily academic and administrative operations a principal oversees
Job description of a high school principal.
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My name is Mark Shanoff, I'm the principal of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida.
So my role is is the overall operations of this school.
So that's academic as well as all the other operations including finance, bookkeeping, custodial, food service, and then of course everything that happens instructionally in our classrooms.
So number one, really comes down to providing meaningful timely feedback to teachers and students.
And modeling relationship building with our students for our teachers is of primary importance to me.
Also ensuring that parents feel like they're getting the best customer service that they can possibly receive from their local school and that our students feel proud and prideful to be in Edgewater Eagle.
It really does start at five o'clock in the morning when we start looking at who's going to be on campus for supervision, who is going to be off campus at meetings, so ensuring that the school is properly supervised is always the first thing that we look at every morning.
Once the school day begins, it's important for our students to get off on the right foot.
We want our buses to come in on time, we wanna make sure that all of our students are greeted.
They're greeted warmly and that our students make their way to their first period class.
Once the students are safely in first period, we'll then start going around to the various classrooms and checking in on what's going on in our classes.
We will also engage in various meetings throughout the day, some of these meetings involve parents, some of these meeting involve just us staff members.
Some of these meetings involve local government entities who may be looking to either have an event on campus, or they may need some feedback from the school.
Once the school day dismisses, once our students then are gone, either they go home or they move on to their after school activities
I will try to engage one way or another in their after school activities whether it's a game or a performance such as the play that just took place, Hairspray where I played the gym teacher.
That is something that I enjoy doing because at that point we are engaging our students in the environment in which is kind of the hook for them in school.
We recognize that it isn't always going to be what they learn in chemistry that's going to get them to come every day, so I try to engage in as many of those activities as possible, and then when the clock strikes seven or eight I find my way home, only to open up more email and ensure I get caught up from what I missed on email from the entire day.
So my role is is the overall operations of this school.
So that's academic as well as all the other operations including finance, bookkeeping, custodial, food service, and then of course everything that happens instructionally in our classrooms.
So number one, really comes down to providing meaningful timely feedback to teachers and students.
And modeling relationship building with our students for our teachers is of primary importance to me.
Also ensuring that parents feel like they're getting the best customer service that they can possibly receive from their local school and that our students feel proud and prideful to be in Edgewater Eagle.
It really does start at five o'clock in the morning when we start looking at who's going to be on campus for supervision, who is going to be off campus at meetings, so ensuring that the school is properly supervised is always the first thing that we look at every morning.
Once the school day begins, it's important for our students to get off on the right foot.
We want our buses to come in on time, we wanna make sure that all of our students are greeted.
They're greeted warmly and that our students make their way to their first period class.
Once the students are safely in first period, we'll then start going around to the various classrooms and checking in on what's going on in our classes.
We will also engage in various meetings throughout the day, some of these meetings involve parents, some of these meeting involve just us staff members.
Some of these meetings involve local government entities who may be looking to either have an event on campus, or they may need some feedback from the school.
Once the school day dismisses, once our students then are gone, either they go home or they move on to their after school activities
I will try to engage one way or another in their after school activities whether it's a game or a performance such as the play that just took place, Hairspray where I played the gym teacher.
That is something that I enjoy doing because at that point we are engaging our students in the environment in which is kind of the hook for them in school.
We recognize that it isn't always going to be what they learn in chemistry that's going to get them to come every day, so I try to engage in as many of those activities as possible, and then when the clock strikes seven or eight I find my way home, only to open up more email and ensure I get caught up from what I missed on email from the entire day.