POLICY
Elmwood Park
Board of Education
Section: Administration
1230. SUPERINTENDENT'S DUTIES (M)
Date Created: January, 2010
Date Edited: January, 2010
1230- SUPERINTENDENT'S DUTIES (M)
M
Title: Superintendent of Schools
Qualifications:
1. Experience in teaching and school administration for minimum of ten years.
2. An earned master's degree with a major in educational administration; with completion of one year of graduate work beyond the master's degree preferred.
3. New Jersey Certification-School Administrator.
4. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Reports to: Board of Education
Supervises and Evaluates: Directly or indirectly, every district employee.
Job Goal:
To inspire, lead, guide and direct members of the administrative, instructional, and supportive services team in setting and achieving the highest standards of excellence, so that each individual pupil enrolled in the district is provided with a complete, valuable, meaningful and personally rewarding education. Further, to oversee and administer the use of all district facilities, property and funds with a maximum of efficiency, a minimum of waste and an ever-present, overriding awareness and concern for their impact upon each individual pupil's education.
Performance Responsibilities:
1. Administers as chief school executive, the development and maintenance of a positive educational program designed to meet the needs of the community and to carry out the policies of the Board.
2. Formulates and directs the development of school and district objectives, plans and programs. Prepares and presents facts and explanations necessary to the Board in making informed decisions concerning the approval of school and district objectives, plans and programs.
3. Attends and participates in all Board meetings, except when own appointment, efficiency, contract or salary is being considered, and serves as an ex officio member of all Board committees.
4. Advises the Board of need for new or revised policy and prepares policy drafts for Board approval.
5. Supervises the effective implementation of all constitutional or statutory laws, State regulations, and Board policies.
6. Exercises power to make such rules and gives such instructions to school employees and pupils as may be necessary to implement Board policy.
7. Acts on own discretion if action is necessary in any matter not covered by Board policy. Reports such action to the Board as soon as practicable and prepares draft policy for review, modification, if necessary, and adoption by the Board.
8. Attends to the efficient maintenance and dissemination of all district policy documents.
9. Prepares and submits to the Board, recommendations related to all matters requiring Board action and informs the Board of all activities operating under the Board's authority.
10. Delegates at own discretion to other Board employees the exercise of any powers or the discharge of any duties with the knowledge that the delegation of power or duty does not relieve the chief school executive of final responsibility for the action taken under such delegation.
11. Maintains adequate records for the schools, including a system of financial accounts; business and property records; and personnel, school population and scholastic records. Acts as custodian of such records and of all contracts, securities, documents, title papers, books of records, and other papers belonging to the Board.
12. Recommends for promotion, appointment, or employment all Board employees, and assigns, transfers and recommends for dismissal any and all Board employees.
13. Directs the preparation of the annual budget for adoption by the Board, and administers the budget as enacted by the Board, acting at all times in accord with legal requirements and adopted Board policies.
14. Provides information and guidance for negotiations with professional and non- professional personnel.
15. Communicates directly or through delegation all Board actions relative to personnel matters to all employees; and receives from employees all communications to be made to the Board.
16. Represents the schools before the public, and maintains, through cooperative leadership, both within and without the schools, a program of publicity and public relations as may keep the public informed as to the activities, needs, and successes of the schools.
17. Attends, or delegates a representative to attend, all municipal, County and State agency meetings at which matters that pertain to the school district appear on the agenda or are expected to be raised.
18. Represents the district in its dealing with other school systems.
19. Assumes ultimate administrative responsibility for the health, safety, welfare, discipline, assignment, promotion and retention of all pupils.
20. Conducts a continuous evaluation of the progress and the needs of the schools. Keeps the Board informed of results of evaluation and measures taken to improve the district's educational environment.
21. Makes recommendations to the Board concerning pupil transportation in accord with the law and safety requirements.
22. Recommends the establishment or alteration of attendance boundaries for all schools in the interest of good administration of the instructional program, and approves the special transfer of pupils from one neighboring district to another only when conditions in each case warrant such action.
23. Makes recommendations with reference to the location and size of new school sites and of additions to existing sites, the location and size of new buildings on school sites; the plans for new school buildings; all appropriations for sites and buildings; and improvements, alterations, and changes in the district's buildings and equipment.
24. Recommends to the Board sales of all property no longer required by the Board, and supervises the proper execution of such sales.
25. Keeps informed of modern educational thought and practices by advanced study, by visiting school systems elsewhere, by attending educational conferences, and by other appropriate means, and keeps the Board informed of trends in education.
26. Performs such other tasks as may from time to time be assigned by the Board.
27. The Superintendent shall notify the Board of Education of personnel attaining tenure as follows:
a. The Superintendent shall notify the Board of Education by letter one hundred twenty days before any staff member receiving tenure.
b. Ninety days before tenure eligibility, the Superintendent shall certify to the Board of Education in writing that the staff member involved has been properly evaluated in accord with the Board policy and all State requirements. This certification shall include evaluations and recommendations of all accountable supervisory personnel including a final recommendation from the Superintendent.
Duties Specified by Law
1. Report to the Board of Education on the educational program and facilities of district.
2. Serve as non-voting member of Board of Education.
3. Provide general supervision of district schools.
4. Assume supervision for district instruction.
5. Select and recommend all textbooks, equipment supplies, and other educational materials for Board approval.
6. Visit district schools to keep informed of their condition and progress.
7. Report to the Commissioner and County Superintendent on or before August 1 of each year on matters relating to district schools in a form directed by the Commissioner.
8. Be responsible for discipline and conduct of schools.
9. Have authority to suspend staff.
10. Have authority to appoint office personnel.
11. Have authority to nominate Assistant Superintendent.
12. Ascertain teacher certification.
13. May serve as high school Principal.
14. Direct the development of policies and procedures to accomplish the evaluation of all tenured teaching staff members.
Terms of Employment: Twelve months a year. Contract terms and salary to be negotiated with the Board.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of the Superintendent.
N.J.S.A. 18A:17-17; 18A:17-18; 18A:17-20; 18A:22-8.1; 18A:27-4.1
Adopted: 26 January 2010
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