Principal: Special Education

Responsibilities

• Monitor the school climate and maintain proper rules, safety, and security of students, providing crisis intervention as needed.
• Assures a safe learning environment for students.
• Design, schedule, implement, designate, monitor, and assess professional development and supervision.
• Cook up the admissions process, including policies, review of referrals, pre-admission interviews and placement decisions.
• Communicate regularly with instructional, resource and clinical staff, as well as with representatives from local school systems, to ensure appropriate services for all students.
• Attends IEP team meetings involving review of placement, changes in service provision or crisis intervention.
• Cook up the overall student scheduling, class assignments, transcript reviews and implementation of the educational and behavioral components of the school.
• Maintain school documentation, in conjunction with the Administrative Team and Program Assistant.
• Oversee the development, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of policies, procedures, administrative files and continually assesses the overall program to assure optimum educational, behavioral, and clinical function, as well as COMAR compliance.
• Operate the educational program within approved budgetary guidelines.
• Complete all required reporting, both for the purposes of internal use and for the MSDE.
• Inform the Associate Vice President of all relevant situations.
• Attend trainings and meetings as required.
• Share/transmit the mission and vision of Arrow Child & Family Ministries to staff and to students and families served.
• Review client files on a quarterly basis to access service plan implementation, progress towards desired outcomes, and future appropriateness of service plan.

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree is required.
• At least five (5) years of teaching experience with students of a similar population to the school applied to, and at least three (3) years of progressive supervisory and administrative experience.