Assistant Principal

About This Role

This Assistant Principal role is for a dynamic and mission-driven educational leader who supports the Principal in managing the school's day-to-day operations. The role serves as a strong and dependable second-in-command, both culturally and instructionally, ensuring that instructional practices lead to improved scholar outcomes through rigorous data analysis and high expectations for teaching and learning. This leader also helps build and maintain a school culture where staff feel cared for, developed, and heard, while fostering a safe, structured, and effective learning environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all Deans, department chairs, and teachers who you manage feel cared for, heard, and developed
• Record and keep track of evidence of staff engagement across all team members
• Monitor the experience of team members across departments in order to ensure that all staff have equitable expectations and experiences
• Focus on equity of input by asking different people for input in different ways to ensure that team members feel heard and valued
• Ensure direct reports have clarity of Roles & Responsibilities
• Create and execute ILT meetings and O3s with direct reports
• Create data practices and tracking mechanisms that ensure that direct reports get feedback on their practices and are meeting performance metrics
• Create and execute Team Observations and walk-throughs to support your teams in their professional development and to hold your teams accountable to a culture of excellence
• Facilitate and promote professional growth for faculty and staff through performance evaluations
• Create and implement NLCP's philosophy on all things instruction (with input from stakeholders), including but not limited to: culturally responsive pedagogy, grading, rigor (SAT as the floor), homework philosophy, collaboration, The Noble Classroom, etc.
• Create and implement the vision of the Instructional Leadership Team, and lead ILT meetings
• Promote student success by overseeing curriculum development and instructional strategies that meet the diverse needs of learners
• Provide leadership and core value development and support for the instructional staff
• Develop all leaders' ability to conduct high quality root cause data analyses and execute with fidelity
• Observe and provide feedback to instructional leaders on coaching conversations, team meetings, and weekly data meetings
• Meet regularly with instructors to provide coaching
• Meet weekly with grade-level content teams managed to assess student mastery and plan targeted re-teaches related to standards-based instruction
• Take on coaching for team members who have been escalated for performance and have struggled to make improvements with their original direct manager