High School Principal
2025 - 2026
(Internal/External Posting)
JOB TITLE: High School Principal
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Masters Degree Required
- Administrative Degree Preferred
- Michigan School Administrator Certification Required or Willing to Pursue
- Experience at the High School Level Preferred (teaching or administration)
ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- A proactive, student-centered approach to discipline that fosters safety, personal growth, and classroom integrity.
- Demonstrated success in boosting staff morale and fostering a positive, professional school culture.
- Strong commitment to engagement in the school community.
- Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to define systems, roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
- Approachability, active listening, and a strong commitment to building trust with staff, students, families, and community partners.
- Familiarity with restorative practices that support student behavior and well-being.
- Data-driven leadership with a focus on school improvement and student success.
- A demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
- Ability to actively engage parents and families in meaningful ways that strengthen school-community relationships.
- Support for innovative instruction and ongoing professional development.
- Understands the unique nature and importance of high school education.
- A visible presence in classrooms, hallways, and school events to build relationships and community connection.
- A steady, thoughtful approach to change management that includes staff in the process.
- Strong skills in mediation, conflict resolution, and proactive problem-solving.
- Support for extracurricular programs that promote student engagement and enhance school culture.
- Participate and lead various processes to meet the needs of individual learners such as 504 meetings, IEP meetings, MTSS meetings, and child study meetings.
- Creates the master schedule, teacher assignments, and student course placement in consultation with the office staff and counseling department
- Serves as building assessment coordinator – NWEA, MSTEP, PSAT, SAT and other assessment tools.
- Understand the complexities and nuances of hiring, evaluating, inspiring, and mentoring all staff members to exceed expectations.
- Understand the school’s responsibility to prepare students for their futures in this rapidly changing
- global society.
- Consistently takes on challenging situations and believes in the ability to effect change; takes risks to achieve vision and goals, even if they deviate from the norm.
- Set high-performance goals for themselves and others despite instability and obstacles to success.
- Collaborate with elementary and secondary principals to achieve program alignment and student expectations.
- Create a vision for school-wide operations, staff, scheduling, testing and finance to ensure they are aligned with school and district goals and priorities.
- Qualifications as the Swan Valley Board of Education and Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable
SALARY: Per Swan Valley Administrators Agreement
ENROLLMENT: Swan Valley High School
Grades 9 – 12, approx. 500 students
APPLICATION Letter of interest, resume, credentials, references
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
DEADLINE: 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 10, 2025
Please send application materials to:
Alison Cicinelli, Superintendent
Swan ValleySchool District
8380 O’Hern Road
Saginaw, MI 48609
acicinelli@swanvalley.k12.mi.us
Swan Valley School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap, height, weight, military status, marital or family status, or any other legally protected category. For inquiries contact:
Alison Cicinelli, District Civil Rights Coordinator
Swan Valley School District
8380 O'Hern Road
Saginaw, MI 48609
989-921-3701
06.23.2025