Assistant Principal - Upper Elementary - Miami

Company Description

About KIPP Miami

KIPP Miami is part of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) national nonprofit network of college-preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle and high school students. KIPP has a 25-year track record of preparing students for success in college and life. Founded in 2018, KIPP Miami operates four nonprofit charter schools in Greater Miami’s Urban Core communities providing a world-class education for students in grades K-8. To learn more, visit www.kippmiami.org.

Job Description

We are hiring for an Elementary Assistant Principal with Upper School (2nd-4th grade) experience for KIPP Miami for the 2025-2026 school year!

Here’s what you need to know:

KIPP Royalty Academic is seeking an awe-inspiring Assistant Principal (APs) to coach and grow our teachers who in turn support our students as they climb the mountain to college, career, and beyond. We are specifically searching for a candidate with upper elementary (2nd-4th grade) experience. Our ideal APs are great teachers with strong results of their own, are instructional gurus who can teach their moves to others, and have experience leading, managing, and coaching adults in their schools. They love students and families, teachers, and the community they serve.

The AP’s primary responsibility is to drive and own instructional outcomes for students. We expect our Assistant Principals to lead and coach instruction, to manage the scope & sequence of their assigned grade/content, to build and manage assessments and administer them on a prescribed cadence, to lead data analysis and response cycles, to facilitate content team meetings, to cultivate the leadership of GLCs and ICs on their teams, and to build a culture of achievement and joy for students and adults.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Instructional Leadership

• Strong Content Knowledge: Knows essential content, rigor of standards, and highly effective teaching strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; is able to readily adapt to leverage resources across less-known or more nuanced subject areas
• Work with members of teacher cohort to set individual goals based on school wide goals and student achievement data ;
• Conduct O3s as developmentally appropriate with each member of teacher cohort focused on instructional strategies, content, feedback based on observations and holding them accountable to goals; Conduct regular classroom observations of members of the teacher cohort.
• Manage the performance of teachers to obtain outcomes for students through weekly 03s, observation/feedback, content team meetings, and professional development.
• Collaborate as a member of the school leadership team and regional leadership team to ensure all students meet school goals: Conduct weekly conversations with the school leadership team focused on student achievement data for focus grade levels and ensure that there are clear next steps and strategies to drive student outcomes; attend regional skill builder PD; provide input to school leader on vision and goals.
• Implement Academic Inputs that lead to results: Build quarterly scope and sequences per subject/grade that entails: daily lessons objectives and resources, quarterly assessments, CRQs, and exit tickets. Create respective assessment wikis aligned to the regional assessment calendar with assessments for each course per quarter. Analyze state assessment, quarterly assessments, CRQs, and exit ticket data to make informed academic decisions to be implemented in CTMs, weekly data meetings, and LASW meetings. Lead effective DKI (data and key initiatives) meetings determine actions that lead to outcomes for students.
• Ensures there’s an effective testing environment, investment, and procedures for testing
  
  

Student Culture

• Consistently reinforces high expectations for all students all the time
• Actively develops school culture where students find joy in learning and where students are joyful and engaged
• Creates a culture in which teachers build strong and lasting relationships with students, especially the most challenging students
• Builds an inclusive student environment, ensuring that all student voices are heard and incorporated
• Speaks to violations of culture and holds staff accountable to values / professional infractions with interactions with kids
  
  

Staff Culture

• Celebrates and shows appreciation regularly for teammates
• Actively develops school culture where teachers find joy in teaching and student learning
• Consistently models and reinforces high expectations for all staff all the time
• Develops clearly articulated systems for how the staff culture will function (e.g., coaching, department meetings, etc.)
  
  

Community Engagement

• Engages families and community stakeholders proactively and productively as partners in school goals. Works with families who have concerns and helps address them.
• Creates a culture and expectation that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive support in their child’s long-term success
  
  

Talent Management

• Ensures each direct report has a high quality performance management process including regular observations, assignment of micro-goals, and thoughtful, written evaluations
• Identifies top performing teachers at regular points throughout the school year and works strategically to retain them
• Manages struggling performers through goal setting and increased support. Manages out low performers when necessary
• Identify high potential talent and develop accordingly, manage performance with the support of the school leader, manage the growth and capacity building of next-ready leaders (GLCs, Department Chairs, and high-potential teachers)
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Student Focus: Belief that all students, regardless of background, have the ability to go to and through college; demonstrated commitment to the school’s unique community
• Achievement Orientation: Demonstrated student achievement results in own classroom and from teachers that he/she manages
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
• Instructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis and strong content knowledge
• High Expectations: Sets and upholds high expectations for students academically and behaviorally
• Results through Others: Evidence of ability to teach other skills in classroom management and effective lesson execution
• Relationship Building: Evidence of ability to build strong relationships with students, staff, and families
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience coaching and managing others and/or leading a team to results
• Knowledge of Excel, Google Docs and relevant teaching software applications.
• Ability to proactively problem solve; anticipate challenges before they occur.
• Ability to remain calm and be solutions-oriented in high-stress situations.
  
  

Additional Information

KIPP Miami offers a full comprehensive benefits plan, including health care, competitive 403(B) plan, and a school laptop.