Assistant Principal

Minimum Qualification

Master’s degree in education required.
Aliaska Type B Administrative Certificate and Alaska Teacher Certificate required.
Demonstrated effectiveness in instructional leadership required.
Three years of administrative experience preferred.
Three years teaching experience required.
Knowledge & experience with culturally safe and responsive practices required.
Knowledge & experience in trauma engaged practices. Positive school climate and restorative practices preferred.
Experience in place-based and/or project-based learning preferred.
Inupiaq, Language, History& Culture experience preferred.
Must be able to pass a physical as per Board policy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote, model, and demonstrate the NSBSD Board of Education Strategic Plan and District Pedagogy.
• Collaborate with the Principal and Directors of the Inupiat Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Student Services, and Informational Technology Departments to ensure teachers have access to training, supports, and materials vetted through their departments and approved by the School Board.
• Create an authentic, consistent, strength-based school plan through collaboration with staff, students, families, and community that provides expectations and success criteria.
• Create a culturally safe and responsive instructional environment for learning and instruction, utilizing the District’s approved curriculum and materials.
• Support the instructional staff in creating high expectations for all students and authentic assessment of the whole child, centered on student voice.
• Lead the development and evaluation of all staff, including providing opportunities for all staff to participate in relevant professional learning communities and mentorship.
• Collaborate with the Principal to implement and support an immersion program at the grade levels designated in the District schedule of implementation.
• Plan and act with financial and operational stewardship in mind to provide a high performing infrastructure for the learning environment of our students.

Physical Requirements

• Sit.
• Stand.
• Walk.
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Sometimes stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Talk and hear.
• Lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

Environmental Conditions

• Sit.
• Stand.
• Walk.
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Sometimes stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Talk and hear.
• Lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
• Fly in small and large commuter planes.
• Work in a moderate noise environment.
• Travel within and outside of the North Slope Borough School District.