Principal

• Plan academic calendars for the entire school
• Design new programmes, restructure old ones, and maintain these agendas
• Establish and enforce school policies
• Supervise faculty, staff and students, and ensure they are doing what they need to do
• Handle student recruitment and admissions into the school
• Communicate with parents when it is necessary
• Secure funding for the school, and handle the institution’s budget
• Discipline students when they have violated school policies
• Hire new staff members and terminate current employees
• Assess teaching methods by monitoring their performance in the classroom and examining test results
• Oversee facilities and determine if renovations, repairs or replacements are needed
• Attend school functions after hours, like school board meetings, plays, concerts and sporting events
• Speak with the media should a newsworthy incident happen to the school

Before getting hired as a principal at a private high school or a public elementary school, you will often need to spend a few years in a teaching position first. This allows you to better understand how schools operate, what common student needs are and what the various teacher concerns a principal will come across.

Also, many principals serve as assistant principals first.

After succeeding in this field and receiving numerous accolades, principals will advance to various roles like superintendent and school district manager. Principals could later transfer to other areas, such as publishing, grants development, pupil services and authorship.