High School Assistant Principal

Description

Responsibilities
The High School Assistant Principal serves as an instructional leader, administrator, and coach. The Assistant
Principal is responsible for ensuring that all students reach high levels of academic success and supervising teaching
staff. The Assistant Principal reports to the Principal and works closely with the school leadership team serving as an
integral part of the high school leadership team to provide consistent, effective school leadership.
The Assistant Principal will work in the following areas and will be expected to:
Teaching and Learning

• Support individual teachers in improving instructional practice and setting and achieving professional growth goals through:
• Daily to bi-weekly observation and feedback meetings, providing bite-sized, actionable feedback.
• Bi-weekly data meetings reviewing student work and progress towards standards mastery.
• Fostering a deep understanding of high school standards.
• Review and provide feedback on long term plans, end of year assessments, unit plans, summative and formative assessments, daily lesson plans, and student-facing materials.
• Co-manage the day-to-day operations of the campus.
• Support teachers in administering assessments and collecting and analyzing data.
• Co-plan professional development and provide teachers with analysis of data.
• Coordinate testing.
• Diagnose and monitor instruction and the curriculum by utilizing data to maximize achievement in all student subgroups.
• Communicate with parents about the curriculum/instructional program at E.L. Haynes. Demonstrate content knowledge and can speak intelligently to strategies that effectively work across contents.
• Instructional leadership experience with demonstrated high student achievement and/or impressive academic gains.

School Culture

• Communicate the vision and build teams to support the mission, vision, and values.
• Embrace the belief that all students can learn at high levels and accept responsibility for meeting student achievement goals.
• Foster student leadership, efficacy, and stewardship.
• Communicate frequently and be accessible to students and parents.
• Engage all families in the life of the school.
• Ensures student culture vision and approach aligns with ELH (e.g., restorative practices,) and demonstrates the ability to effectively impact/improve our current behavior system/culture.
• Create and consistently reinforce high expectations and aspirational culture of achievement and behavior in their classroom with consistency. Creates a culture where it is the prevailing assumption among all students that each can learn and achieve at high levels.

Aligned Staff

• Recruit, select, and evaluate high-quality staff.
• Co-plan and lead summer training and orientation for new staff.
• Co-facilitate the setting of school-wide and class level student achievement SMART goals.
• Lead the Professional Growth Plan Cycle for teachers.
• Meet with teachers about individual professional development goals.
• Seek professional development opportunities for individuals and the entire staff to support goals.
• Arrange school visits, support peer observation, and critique.
• Build effective relationships.
• Demonstrate empathy and ability to understand the interests of varied constituents and meet them where they are to drive change.

Systems and Operations

• Assist in developing the schedule for teachers and students.
• Develops inclusion schedule with Senior Director and Assistant Director of Special Education..
• Demonstrates long-term strategic and systems-oriented thinking and planning skills to meet goals.
• Diagnoses complex problems, identifies key issues and root causes, and appropriately prioritizes steps to solve the problems.
• Provide oversight to and support the programming of before and after school and evening events

Personal Leadership

• Model the behaviors of effective leadership: goal-oriented, facilitative, resilient, adaptive, belief-based action, culturally-competent.
• Demonstrate self-awareness and commitment to ongoing learning.
• Use effective interpersonal skills to build trust and ensure accountability.
• Set ambitious targets and maintains a relentless focus to achieve school goals.
• Take personal responsibility for student achievement and success.
• Flexible in their thinking and approach, understand stakeholders that need to be engaged to resolve an issue, and the impact of decisions on those involved.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates who embody the following values and characteristics:

• A belief that all children, from every background, must receive an excellent, college-preparatory education, and are able to reach high levels of academic achievement.
• A mindset that embraces serving students with English language learning and special needs and belief that all students can and must achieve at high levels.
• A track record of success as the teacher/leader of a high-performing school.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, lead, and collaborate with adults from a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to build and keep strong relationships with diverse students and families.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivation, and ability to effectively prioritize when juggling competing priorities.
• Ability to think strategically, translate thoughts to action, and follow-through with all details.
• Humility, a sense of humor, and flexibility in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred.

Salary : $102,000 - $144,000