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Start Your Online Application Now<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.applitrack.com%2Fnrheg%2FOnlineApp%2FJobPostings%2FView.asp%3FAppliTrackJobId%3D209&data=05%7C02%7Cscsu-edpost%40stcloudstate.edu%7Cd03810f78f9f42ceeb1008dd9e1e1926%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C638840574426712156%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=V%2FnUxzP7v4jz1Ity9lpzfJxUSGtu%2F8kQWV9Iub5Ltnc%3D&reserved=0> Date of Availability: 07/01/2025 Date Closing: 06/11/2025 Position Type: Elementary Principal / Licensed Staff Date Posted: May 28, 2025 Location: NRHEG Elementary School FTE: 1.0 Date Available: 2025-2026 school year Closing Date: June 11, 2025 Interviews will take place shortly after the closing date. Qualifications: * Minnesota Principal k-12 licensure. * A minimum of five years of teaching experience. * Administrative experience, previous experience as a principal preferred. * Experience at the elementary grade level preferred. * Ability to plan systematically and effectively. * Ability to develop strong/effective collaborations with others. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Working Conditions: * Office environment Job Summary: Mission and Vision: 1. Engages all stakeholders in the development and implementation of a shared vision of learning, a strong organizational mission, and high, measurable goals that prepare every student to succeed in post-secondary learning and to become responsible and contributing citizens. 2. Articulates a vision and develops implementation strategies for change that result in measurable achievement gains for all students and close achievement gaps. 3. Fosters a shared commitment to high expectations for student achievement, high standards of teaching and learning, and a culturally competent environment where diversity is valued. 4. Establishes rigorous, measurable goals for instructional program decisions and staff learning experiences that are consistent with the school&#8217;s mission, vision, and core beliefs. 5. Builds a strong and positive sense of community in the school by honoring the important roles of race and culture, its traditions, artifacts, symbols, values, and norms, as a contributor to student and school success. Instructional Leadership: 1. Facilitates the development and communication of a shared vision and school culture of effective teaching and instructional practices that reflect high expectations, engage all students, and accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness. 2. Provides the structure and opportunity for the development, alignment, implementation, and evaluation of relevant and rigorous curricula tied to state academic and college and career readiness standards. 3. Collaborates with teachers to examine student and school data to measure student learning and growth, identify achievement gaps, and develop strategic interventions that improve learning and close identified gaps. 4. Facilitates reflective practice, inquiry, and action research to identify and monitor the impact of interventions and determine high-yield instructional strategies that improve student learning. 5. Supports the need for quality, collaborative staff learning experiences that are guided by data and research, planned by staff, job embedded, and based on the school&#8217;s learning needs. 6. Oversees all co-curricular programs offered by the school. Human Resources: 1. Develops a strategic action plan with staff that includes targets to improve student achievement school wide and close achievement gaps with low-performing student groups. 2. Provides timely, appropriate, quality professional development and facilities learning teams that gather information, analyze data, examine issues, and develop new approaches to improve teaching and learning. 3. Engages in personal professional development that relates to educational leadership. 4. Implements a cohesive approach to recruitment, placement, induction, and retention of a highly qualified and effective staff. 5. Routinely observes instruction and provides ongoing feedback and coaching to teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner in order to support professional growth. 6. Provides effective and timely supervision and evaluation aligned with local district goals, state regulations, and contract provisions and uses this process to facilitate development, remediation, and/or removal of underperforming staff members. Professional and Ethical Relationship: 1. Demonstrates and communicates values, beliefs, and attitudes that make the well-being and academic success of all students the basis for all decision making. 2. Models appropriate personal, professional, and ethical behavior that is respectful and fair, enhances the image of the school and the profession, and inspires others to higher levels of leadership and performance. 3. Employs conflict resolution and proactive problem-solving strategies in a wide variety of situations and circumstances. 4. Demonstrates strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and facilitates groups effectively. 5. Welcomes and honors families and stakeholders by engaging them in a meaningful dialogue regarding student learning, the work of the school, and its needs and accomplishments. 6. Ensures that the school complies with local, state, and federal laws, standards, and regulations as well as local district and school policies. Resource Management: 1. Distributes leadership responsibilities, shares decision-making, and supervises daily ongoing management structures and practices to enhance teaching and learning. 2. Improves organizational performance by making appropriate and sound use of time, technology, management strategies, and accountability measures, including assessments, to achieve the district and school&#8217;s vision, mission, and goals. 3. Maintains a safe environment by addressing real and potential challenges to the physical and emotional safety and security of students and staff that interfere with teaching and learning. 4. Manages the organization, operations, and resources to promote student success and maintain a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. 5. Manages a system that meets all the requirements of legal documentation record retention. 6. Develops and implements a budget process that manages fiscal expenditures consistent with district and school goals, policies, and available resources and that is focused on and results in improved student achievement. 7. Administers the district employment contracts at the school site. Application Procedure: * Interested candidates should complete the online application process through Applitrack at https://www.applitrack.com/nrheg/onlineapp/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.applitrack.com%2Fnrheg%2Fonlineapp%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cscsu-edpost%40stcloudstate.edu%7Cd03810f78f9f42ceeb1008dd9e1e1926%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C638840574426739399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nl4reI8dVcDhepm%2F0rC%2FxVVXDHJG8Q13DQhU6RDP9qA%3D&reserved=0> Selection Procedure: Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Those selected for interviews will be contacted. Michael Meihak, Superintendent 306 Ash Avenue South New Richland, MN 56072 mmeihak@nrheg.k12.mn.us<mailto:mmeihak@nrheg.k12.mn.us> Phone: 507-465-3206 Fax: 507-465-8633Position Type: Elementary Principal / Licensed Staff NRHEG School District uses the applicant tracking<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontlineeducation.com%2Fsolutions%2Frecruiting-hiring%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cscsu-edpost%40stcloudstate.edu%7Cd03810f78f9f42ceeb1008dd9e1e1926%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C638840574426753396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7UvXE4CPf7J6bcASIU85BYHPeeh3nUUfiRA04SBsnRc%3D&reserved=0> system from Frontline Education to manage employment applications online This email may contain information that is confidential or attorney-client privileged and may constitute inside information. 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