Assistant Principal of Instruction

Major Performance Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage and Develop Talent: Select, recruit, onboard, train, evaluate, and manage LEAD Instructional Managers (teachers).
• Conduct formal performance reviews and compensation discussions in alignment with LEAD human resource practices and policies.
• Engage instructional managers in reflective thinking while looking critically at evident instructional practices.
• Build a strong rapport with instructional managers and teachers.
• Model and explore best-in-class instructional practices through cognitive coaching conversations.
• Develop instructional managers as leaders of others specifically to provide rigorous and high-quality instruction for students.
• Lead the school’s instructional leadership team (ILT) to ensure that curricular and instructional initiatives are student-focused and aligned with the school’s vision, goals, and improvement plans.
• Through the administration of assessments, develop teachers’ conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and what instructional methods drive student mastery.
• Ensure that all national, state, and network assessments are given on time, and data from them is used to drive instructional decisions.
• Partner with the APS and student support team to establish/maintain joyful, engaging, and orderly learning environments.
• Develop instructional managers as leaders of others specifically to provide rigorous and high-quality instruction for students.
• Regularly conduct classroom observations with instructional managers, APS, principal, teacher leaders, and the LPS Academic Team on instructional practices.
• Regularly observe and coach Instructional Managers to ensure they are providing high-impact, actionable, and bite-sized feedback to teachers on a daily/weekly basis.
• Adequate and effective planning opportunities to collaborate, study curricular material, analyze teacher practices and student data, and adjust instruction.
• Plan and deliver whole-school professional learning sessions that drive the highest-impact improvements in teacher mindsets and practices.
• Implement and monitor a rigorous evaluation system using the TEAM model. When necessary, collaborate with members of the network support team to address performance.
• Develop and utilize observation data to support instructional managers and coordinators to lead data-driven instruction.
• Lead instructional leadership team to determine how data aligns to end-of-year goals (what is being assessed and how it maps to standards).
• Collaborate with LPS Academic Team to break-out data prioritizing the analysis of what data is saying about areas of student mastery and growth.
• Identify cyclical, specific instructional actions and adjustments to fill students’ knowledge and skill gaps and a timeline to do so.
• Use teacher data to inform, assess, and adjust professional learning goals and plans.

Experience

• Previous instructional leadership experience as assistant principal, dean, or team leader.
• Previous experience as an instructional coach.
• Experience supervising and evaluating staff and serving as a leader of teams and individuals.
• At least four years of exemplary teaching are required; the ideal candidate will have closer to 7+ years of instructional experience.
• Engages in difficult conversations in an effective and timely manner.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution.
• A Master’s degree is preferred, but experience leading in a school and managing teams successfully is paramount.

Role Specific Competencies in Action

• Leadership: Foundational Competencies - Self-awareness, Learning agility, Influence, Communication/leadership presence, Mission-driven.
• Develop Talent: Coach for development, Provide constructive feedback, Motivate and engage others, Build relationships, Build trust, Manage conflict, Challenge appropriately, Collaborate and partner, Achieve desired outcomes.
• Technically competent: Adapt to the situation, Delegate and direct work, Decisiveness, Compensation.

Pay

This is a full-time, exempt position. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience, including full benefits and technology provisions.

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

N/A

Application

To apply, please complete an online application: https://leadpublicschools.org/join-our-team/

LEAD Public Schools Non-Discrimination Policy

LEAD Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, national origin, age, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veteran status in admission to, access to, or operation of its programs and activities. LEAD Public Schools does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices and complies with applicable federal and state regulations, including those implementing Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, Title VI, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990.