Assistant Principal​/Instructional Coach

About DeKalb Brilliance Academy:
Designed with input from nearly 1,000 South DeKalb community members, DeKalb Brilliance Academy is a tuition‑free, public K–8 charter school committed to building a fundamentally different kind of education. We currently serve grades K–6 and will add one grade per year (learn more about our founding journey here).

Our vision is that each child will know and leverage their unique brilliance to critically analyze the world around them and to design a better and more equitable future. We pursue this vision through our Real‑world Project‑based Learning, where students learn not only from their teachers and peers, but also directly from scientists, lawyers, engineers, and designers. Our model is ambitious by design—and built to challenge the status quo in service of our students and community.

DeKalb Brilliance Academy: where the strength of our community nurtures the brilliance of our children.

As an Assistant Principal at DeKalb Brilliance Academy, you will be one of the key instructional leaders responsible for translating our mission into daily practice. You will coach and develop teachers, analyze data, lead professional learning, support strong culture, and help ensure that classrooms are places where scholars are deeply known, intellectually challenged, and loved well.

This role is ideal for a leader who believes that excellent teaching changes life trajectories, that adult development is a central responsibility of school leadership, and that strong systems create the conditions for both rigor and care. You should be energized by being in classrooms, giving direct feedback, solving complex school challenges, and helping teachers grow quickly in service of students.

At DeKalb Brilliance, you will join a leadership team that is building something ambitious with and for the South DeKalb community: a school where children know and leverage their unique brilliance to critically analyze the world around them and design a better and more equitable future.

• Observe every teacher on your caseload of ~9 at least once weekly and provide clear, actionable, high‑leverage feedback.
• Lead coaching meetings that help teachers improve planning, instruction, classroom culture, and student outcomes.
• Model strong instruction and support teachers in internalizing what excellent teaching looks and sounds like.
• Support teachers in using student work, exit tickets, interim assessments, and other data to adjust instruction.
• Help teachers build classrooms where scholars are engaged in rigorous thinking, strong discourse, and meaningful practice.
• Support teachers in creating high‑impact plans for scholars who need additional academic or behavioral support.

• Analyze school wide, grade-level, and classroom-level data to identify trends and determine next steps.
• Lead weekly co‑planning meetings in reading, math, science, and humanities (career‑connected project‑based learning), to ensure lesson internalization/intellectual preparation, student work analysis, reteach plans, and progress monitoring.
• Help ensure that instruction is aligned to Georgia Standards of Excellence and reflects the level of rigor scholars need to thrive.
• Support the implementation of strong Tier 1 instruction while helping coordinate responsive interventions when needed.

• Support consistent school wide systems for student joy, supervision, routines, and community expectations.
• Help teachers build warm, structured, joyful classrooms where scholars feel safe, known, and challenged.
• Partner with families and staff to respond to student needs with clarity, care, and urgency.
• Support restorative, developmentally appropriate responses that help students grow as leaders while maintaining a safe learning environment.
• Work closely with school leaders and the scholar support team to ensure that academic, behavioral, and social‑emotional supports are aligned.

• Design and lead professional development aligned to school priorities and…