2025-26 Assistant Principal of Culture

Company Description

Location: KIPP Nashville College Prep Middle School

Salary Range: $80,000-$100,000

About KIPP Nashville Public Schools 

KIPP Nashville Public Schools is a network of high-performing, free, open enrollment K-12 schools that has been committed to positively affecting student outcomes in Nashville since 2005. KIPP Nashville is part of the acclaimed KIPP Network, which educates 100,000 students nationwide and supports students from Pre-Kindergarten through college, career and beyond. Through the KIPP Forward program, our team helps students identify their career of highest aspiration and develop the skills and confidence to chase their dreams. KIPP Nashville currently operates 3 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, and 2 high schools and we are excited to open our doors to our 4th elementary school in August 2025 in response to strong community demand.

The mission of KIPP Nashville is together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. Our core values are GROWTH, TEAM, and SHINE. If you share in this belief and values, if you have a proven willingness to do what it takes for students to be their best, if you thrive in an environment that is both collaborative and entrepreneurial, then you are already a KIPPster.

Position Overview
The Assistant Principal of Culture assumes primary responsibility for the culture of the school, facilitating the development of student character and ensuring a positive and structured environment that creates the conditions for accelerated learning.  This position requires an organized and consistent educator with a concrete vision of excellence, adult leadership experience, the ability to build outstanding relationships with stakeholders, and a talent for inspiring children to high expectations. This position is an opportunity to play a significant role in founding an institution focused on academic achievement, character, and college-readiness. 

Job Description

Responsibilities of the Assistant Principal of Culture will include, but are not limited to:

• School Culture

  • Work closely with Principal to establish a positive, structured, and achievement-oriented school culture

  • Facilitate teacher training and support around discipline, relationships, expectations, consistency, and management

  • Coordinate and implement a school-wide discipline system with meaningful incentives and consequences

  • Serve as the point person for discipline/culture issues as well as specific behavioral intervention plans

  • Assist teachers, students, and parents in the creation and implementation of support plans for individual students

  • Monitor behavioral pull-out, in-school suspensions, out of-school suspensions, and suspension parent re-entry meetings

  • Maintain accurate student discipline records; document all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior

  • Plan, lead and oversee an effective Tier I, Tier II and Tier III behavioral culture and RTI-B process

• Stakeholder Engagement and Management

  • Lead recognition assemblies, parent workshops, community events, and other culture-building activities

  • Support teachers in building relationships with students and parents; implement parental involvement plan

  • Communicate clearly and promptly with teachers, families, and students when discipline issues occur

  • Ensure that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement

  • Conduct regular school culture walkthroughs, classroom observations and audits to help staff maintain a high bar of excellence

  • Lead weekly behavior analysis meetings with each grade level

  • Provide ongoing coaching and development to teachers

  • Plan and lead ongoing student culture professional development throughout the year

  • Manage and coach Behavior Support Specialist(s) and School Counselor(s)

  • Conduct and monitor the successful implementation of 504 Plans, Functional Behavioral Assessments, and Behavior Intervention Plans

  • Facilitate Support Team Meetings to ensure intervention plans are created for students who need additional behavioral support

  • Track and report student behavior to charter authorizers through Infinite Campus, Illuminate, DeansList, and PowerSchool for KIPP and other regional level reports 

• Growth Mindset

  • Model school core values and character strengths at all times

  • 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 regional cohort session, school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year

• Other

  • Supervise school entry, breakfast, lunch, transitions, and dismissal to ensure they are orderly and positive

  • Lead efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time

  • Lead efforts to ensure all students have excellent homework completion and that homework is checked efficiently

  • Ensure effective field lessons, school events, and extracurricular activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least three years of teaching experience (5 years preferred) with a proven record of high achievement and strong classroom management and culture

• Experience teaching an educationally under-resourced community

• Experience coaching and leading adults; proven ability to proactively lead by example

• Demonstrated success in building relationships and trust with leaders, teachers, students, parents and community

• Clear understanding of culturally responsive pedagogy and leadership

• Ability to analyze and proactively respond to culture data

Desired Characteristics

• Unwavering commitment to KIPP Nashville’s mission, students, families, and community

• Firm belief in affirming the identity of students, families and staff

• Passionate and committed to being a leader for racial justice and equity, and teaching in a school committed to anti-racism

• Passionate about data-driven instruction

• Demonstrates excitement in growing students into their highest self

• Superb personal organization skills to keep on top of deadlines and measures of accountability

• Team player: demonstrates maturity, growth mindset, strong work ethic, follow-through and flexibility

Additional Information

Compensation

• Salary is competitive, commensurate with experience, and includes benefits. This position is exempt and will work and be compensated according to a 12 month administrative schedule.

• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance policy options. Application for these benefits may be made immediately upon employment. The policy is effective upon the first of the month following the first day of work.

• Certificated staff have access to the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System pension plan(TCRS). Eligible employees contribute 5% and KIPP matches up to 6.81%. Employees may also be eligible for 401k in which KIPP will contribute 5%.

• The vacation package for salaried employees includes 29 paid days throughout the 10 month work schedule(including holidays, fall break, thanksgiving break, winter break) as well as summer break. In addition employees in this role are allotted 6 PTO days as well as 10 additional days to take during the summer break.  Employees are allotted an additional 2 days after every 2 consecutive years of employment. Eligible staff members receive payment for unused PTO days at the end of the fiscal year.

• Adoption/Parental Caregiver Leave- up to 10 weeks parental leave for the primary caregiver and 2 weeks parental leave for the secondary caregiver paid at 100%.

• Leaders are provided with laptop computers with access to the internet and or email to assist them in performing their job responsibilities.

Apply online at https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/KIPP/nashville. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

KIPP Nashville is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual preference, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, pregnancy, or veteran status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.