High School Assistant Principal (SY 2025-26)

Basic Function:

The Assistant Principal actively drives student academic outcomes by facilitating professional development and supporting, coaching, and evaluating staff while creating and maintaining a safe and supportive academic culture. 

Essential Duties: 

• Provide direct coaching and instructional guidance to staff
• Plan and provide professional development in collaboration with others
• Model identity-safe, culturally-relevant pedagogical practices
• Model effective use of differentiated instructional strategies for diverse learners
• Model successful classroom management strategies
• Observe staff and debrief the observations to improve teaching practices
• Provide staff with regular constructive feedback 
• Conduct staff evaluations using LPS-approved evaluation rubrics 
• Co-plan units, lessons, and formative assessments with staff 
• Support staff in collection and analysis of student data results
• Develop staff’s ability to differentiate instruction to meet individualized student needs as determined by diagnostic and formative assessment data
• Collaborate with school leaders to make instructional decisions based on student performance and make recommendations for best practices 
• Evaluate staff performance
• Use data to guide coaching plans
• Oversee after school, summer and other academic intervention programs 
• Oversee state and network assessments 
• Serve on school leadership teams as assigned 
• Support student discipline 
• Plan and facilitate student, family, and community meetings and activities 
• Maintain communication with caregivers as needed 
• Develop positive relationships with school community that are aligned with LPS’ culture and values
• Contribute to the cultivation of strong and cohesive professional learning communities

Other Duties

• Perform related duties as assigned 

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

Any combination equivalent to: 

• a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• 4 years of successful teaching experience in diverse educational setting(s)
• Minimum of one year of successful coaching experience 
• Minimum of one year of successful experience planning and facilitating professional development 

Licensing and Other Requirements 

• Valid Clear California Teaching Credential
• Valid California Administrative Services Credential or Certificate of Eligibility or Verification of enrollment in an Administrative Services Credential or intent to complete the CPACE exam
• Employment eligibility that includes fingerprint, tuberculosis, and/or other employment clearances

Knowledge of:

• Instructional programs, methods, and practices that accelerate student learning and achievement
• Leadership development practices and effective supervision and performance evaluation
• California standards, curriculum frameworks and current research-based practices and trends as they relate to work scope
• Culturally-responsive pedagogy 
• Adult learning principles and change management theory
• Effective professional development practices, including data-based inquiry

Skills and Ability to:

• Support, monitor and evaluate instructional program effectiveness
• Use and analyze data to develop action plans
• Implement collaborative and team building processes
• Plan, implement, and monitor high-leverage professional development
• Facilitate dissent and conduct difficult and constructive conversations effectively
• Provide timely and actionable feedback, including officially evaluating staff performance
• Provoke, inspire and motivate people to make progress toward goals
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Work effectively across diverse communities
• Manage various projects and/or demands demonstrating flexibility and effective time-management skills

Working Conditions:

Environment

• Instructional environment which includes indoor and outdoor activities

Physical Demands

• Mental acuity
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard
• Hearing and speaking to communicate 
• Seeing to observe and read materials
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time 
• Pulling, pushing, lifting and/or carrying instructional materials and equipment