Resume Drop: Assistant Principal

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Resume Drop

Note:

We review Assistant Principal resumes on a rolling basis to build a long-term talent pipeline. This is not an active vacancy, and submitting your resume will not initiate an immediate interview process. Our team periodically reviews submissions to identify potential future matches and will reach out if/when there's alignment with a posted opening.

Together | A Future Without Limits

KIPP New Orleans Schools (KNOS) is a non-profit network of 13 college/career-preparatory, public charter schools serving approximately 5,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, and over 2,000 alumni. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise:
To build academically excellent schools that create unlimited opportunity for all students. For 20 years, we have a proven track record of preparing students for success in college, career, and beyond.

At KIPP, you have the freedom to innovate and the support to grow. You never stop learning, and you're part of a national network that's leading the way in getting students from underserved communities to and through college, and beyond. As the largest charter school management organization in New Orleans, we serve nearly 15% of the city's students, so we need passionate teammates to join us to make their impact re will YOU take us?  

to learn more about teaching and working at KIPP!

Job Description

The Assistant Principal's job is to support the school in driving academic and culture outcomes for students and staff as a key member of the school's leadership team. At KIPP, Assistant Principals lead both instruction and school culture, and are also to be able to develop leadership in the school's emerging leaders.

As a KIPP New Orleans Assistant Principal, your core responsibilities include:

Model and support implementation of the school's vision and goals:

* Supports development of School Leader's school-wide vision and takes an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school; owns the implementation of select school priorities in support of the school-wide vision

* With guidance from the School Leader, leads the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that he/she coaches and ensures alignment with school-wide goals

Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritizes time to accomplish goals:

* Provides input into the school-based strategic planning including and identifies what the school's strategic plan means for his/her own leadership and people that he/she manages

Develop emerging leaders with School Leader's guidance:

* Supports the School Leader in identifying and developing emerging and teacher leaders (Department Heads and/or Grade Level Chairs) through goal setting, coaching and providing feedback

Model strong staff and student culture and manage school-wide character development and behavior management systems:

* Supports teachers in understanding process and roles in student support and intervention and develops systems and structures to ensure that limited time is spent on reactive student discipline

* Manage parts of the daily school operations (e.g. arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, school trips)

* Acts as the first Leadership Team contact on student intervention and parent engagement hierarchy; determines next steps for issues that rise above the teacher/grade level/department chair

Collaborate with School Leader on hiring diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff

Build own and direct reports' instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods:

* Content (Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment):

* Develops deep mastery over the academic standards in the subjects/grades for which he/she coaches, and strong understanding of academic standards for all subjects/grades. Understands the implications of standards on what a student should know and be able to do, connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge, and therefore what a teacher needs to know and be able to do to facilitate student mastery

* Studies curriculum and assessment content and further…