Position Overview
The Assistant Principal assumes the primary responsibility for supporting a school culture that sets high-expectations and empowers students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character traits necessary to pursue a choice-filled life. As an instructional coach, and through the direct coaching of teachers, the Assistant Principal will focus on maximizing school-wide academic growth and character development. In partnership with the Principal, the Assistant Principal will ensure that teachers and students feel well supported in their daily work. The Assistant Principal has a strong understanding of race and equity, and is passionate about developing teachers to become stronger leaders. This position requires an organized and consistent educator with a concrete vision of excellence, adult leadership experience, the ability to build outstanding relationships with students, teachers, and families, and a talent for building a school culture. The Assistant Principal will report to the Principal.
āDay in the lifeā responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Student Culture
- Work closely with the Principal to establish a loving, structured, and achievement-oriented school culture
- Facilitate faculty training and support around discipline, relationships, expectations, consistency, and management
- Coordinate and implement a school-wide discipline system with meaningful incentives and consequences in multi-class settings (i.e. buses, arrival, dismissal, breakfast, lunch, and recess)
- Act as the first contact for student behavior support that are flagged by teachers
- Conduct regular school culture walkthroughs and audits to help staff maintain a high bar of excellence
- Problem-solve with students, teachers, and families to improve behavior of individual students over time
Engage Families
- Proactively builds and maintains strong relationships with all families beginning in the summer and serves as a model for strong family engagement in the school
- Develop ongoing professional learning experiences to build the skill of strong family engagement in staff
- Assist teachers to develop strong partnerships with parents by enhancing communications
- Work closely with faculty to develop strategic plans to monitor family engagement and act proactively
- Design and execute plan for involving parents in studentsā academic and character development
- Conduct meetings with students and families
- Establish and maintain strong communication lines with all parents and share progress
- Be available for open houses, parent-teacher conferences and other events involving parents
- Lead ongoing parent workshops focused on academics and character
Instructional Excellence and Management
- Coach teachers toward development goals related to classroom culture, management and instruction once a week, as well as deliver instructional professional development school-wide
- Provide feedback on aims and assessments weekly
- Conduct data meetings with teachers after each benchmark assessment, and monitor overall academic progress for students
- Assist in writing and revising benchmark assessments
- Assist Principal in coordinating and managing state, MAP and interim assessments
Growth Mindset
- Willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to change and improvement
- Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year
Other
- Perform duties such as monitoring lunch, arrival, dismissal, covering classes, etc.
- Carry out any additional daily school duties as decided upon by the Principal
- Responsible for school in the Principalās absence
- Ensure effective field lessons, school events, and extracurricular activities
- Model school core values and character strengths at all times