Assistant Principal

About This Role

This Assistant Principal role at Rocketship focuses on driving academic achievement and building a rigorous college preparatory school culture. Working closely with the Principal, the Assistant Principal leads and implements the instructional vision for a group of educators, directly managing teachers and instructional support staff across several grade levels. The position involves leading data analysis cycles, observing classrooms, providing feedback, and co-planning units of study and lesson plans to enhance educator effectiveness and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Foster a rigorous and college preparatory culture of excellence in every classroom to ensure high levels of student achievement
• Coach teams to build subject area expertise
• Engage in cycles of data-driven instruction and assessments to inform planning and personalize instruction to student needs
• Ensure at least 1.5 years of progress for all Rocketeers annually through management and planning
• Collaborate with the Special Education team to ensure teachers receive necessary support and training for instruction in a full inclusion model
• Teach at times to model for teachers, provide assistance, or internalize the school model
• Teach for three or more weeks as part of onboarding to learn the curriculum and model
• Create a school community that fully involves parents in student success

Requirements

• Belief that adult preparation is essential to student success
• Desire to become an elementary content expert and eagerness to use that knowledge to develop teachers who demonstrate excellence in planning and execution of lessons
• Understanding that eliminating the achievement gap is hard work but deeply rewarding and within their control

Benefits

• Ongoing professional development in conducting rigorous observations, providing meaningful feedback, and executing useful planning and analysis
• Career paths within schools and on the Network Support Team

About the Company

Rocketship is a rapidly growing network of schools that supports campuses with a leadership team including the Principal, Assistant Principals, and operations team members. They lead a team of teachers, tutors, enrichment coordinators, and support staff who collectively deliver gap-closing, personalized instruction to students from pre-K to fifth grade.