2026-2027] Assistant Principal of Student Support

[] Assistant Principal of Student Support

At KPPS, the Assistant Principal of Student Support leads the school's student support systems to ensure all students—especially those with the greatest needs—experience a joyful, affirming, and academically rigorous environment.

The APSS is responsible for the design and execution of special education, MTSS, and intervention systems, ensuring services are high-quality, data-driven, and compliant. They coach teachers and support staff, monitor student outcomes, and drive continuous improvement in support programming.

As a core member of the leadership team, the APSS partners with the Principal and regional teams to implement aligned systems and ensure all students receive the support they need to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

The role overview includes:

• Develop, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of special education programs and other student supports (Intervention, 504, ELL, etc.)
• Serve as the school's point of contact for all external stakeholders and state compliance reporting for special education
• Monitor development and compliance of IEPs, 504s, Evaluations, and ELL programs and ensure programming and service delivery is implemented with fidelity.
• Manage related service and evaluation provision ensuring compliant and responsive timelines, programming, and reporting
• Lead Child Find efforts and drive intervention and evaluation processes.
• Design and lead the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) pre-service program to ensure that the school is intervening with students demonstrating needs at Tiers 2 and 3
• Manage and coach Special Education teachers and related service providers and lead Student Support content team.
• Consult on all discipline cases involving protected students and ensure procedural compliance.
• Liaise and engage with families via training, meetings, and consultations.
• Plan and deliver professional development related to special education and student support topics
• Review and respond to student support data sources including attendance, discipline, compliance monitoring, and progress monitoring

Coaching, developing, and managing teachers and others includes:

• Develop knowledge and expertise in all aspects of the KIPP Philadelphia Schools instructional design including curriculum, assessment and instructional moves
• Coach teachers and case managers, effectively identifying the teachers' strengths and growth areas, and leveraging a variety of coaching tools (including frequent observation, real time feedback, practice sessions) to evolve each teacher's craft and increase learning in their classroom and the effectiveness of their case management
• Build strong relationships with teachers built on trust, shared clarity, care and transparency
• Analyze instructional and compliance data for individual teachers and across the grade(s) or subject areas of focus, pulling out trends, bright spots, and needs and using findings to drive support and initiatives
• Design, lead, and participate in staff professional development, including but not limited to workshops, content teams, data step backs, content internalizations, and planning meetings
• Ensure all teachers have clarity on the expectations of their role, including performance goals connected to student outcomes, effective practice, and core values alignment
• Regularly meet with all teachers to provide feedback on their practice, review outcomes data, and provide the support needed for them to meet their performance goals
• Conduct mid-year and end-of year evaluation meetings with all teachers
• Support teachers in understanding certification expectations, resources, and next steps (provided by the regional office)
• Build up the leadership capacity of teachers over time, supporting teachers in building the skills, knowledge and mindsets essential to achieve their aspirations
• Coach and manage the Senior Social Worker or Social Worker
• Coach and manage the external and internal related service providers and support personnel including, but not limited to:
  School Psychologist, Speech & Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, ELL Teacher, Paraprofessionals, Personal Care Assistants,…