Assistant Principal of School Culture

About the role

The Assistant Principal of School Culture will oversee all aspects of a high school site, focusing on academic excellence, school culture, and resource management. The role requires a strong commitment to students and learning, with a minimum of 3+ years of teaching experience and 7+ years of teaching and administrative experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain school-wide focus on high standards of student achievement
• Maintain curriculum standards and liaise with content leads to design and implement curriculum
• Model Aspire instructional guidelines
• Manage process for analyzing data to increase student achievement, including students with special needs and related compliance
• Design and lead high quality professional development to increase instructional capacity of staff
• Support and coach new and veteran teachers toward growth, including supporting new teachers through induction
• Attract and select top performers, coach, evaluate, and provide professional development opportunities
• Develop collaborative team culture
• Adhere to company policy and state/federal employment laws
• Consult with Human Resources as appropriate, including for all performance management related concerns
• Set and maintain a balanced budget, adhere to restrictions and reporting requirements of funds, plan for future needs, and adhere to company policy and protocols for sound fiscal management
• Represent the school site in building an effective school community, including designing and leading high quality professional development that develops and supports healthy school culture, communicating with parents, garnering support from community groups and leaders, developing positive relationships with sponsoring district and neighborhood schools, leading and collaborating with Behavior Response and Wellness teams from a trauma-informed and Restorative Justice lens, and ensuring compliance with 504 plans, Student Support, Discipline, Deescalation, supervision of students as needed, and management of any outside partnerships as applicable
• Address issues and problems in a principle-centered, creative, thoughtful, and constructive way, serve as administrative lead when Principal attends off-site meetings, provide leadership and support for extracurricular and partnership programs as applicable, especially at the Secondary level, collaborate with Principal to support Master Scheduling, lead projects as discussed with principal, including long-term strategic planning, process improvement, cycle of inquiry-driven instructional improvements, operational improvement, charter renewal and oversight, accreditation, or any other projects required at the school site, work in collaboration with School Site Leadership and Home Office to achieve site and organizational goals

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to students and learning
• Experience with instructional leadership, including demonstrated knowledge of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and developing teachers
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively and interact effectively with different audiences
• Excellent organization, time management, and follow-up skills; high sense of urgency; demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work as a team
• Entrepreneurial passion
• Minimum educational level: Bachelor’s Degree required; Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred
• Certifications and/or Licensure: Administrative Credential preferred; NCLB Highly Qualified preferred