High School Assistant Principal

About the Position

Job Title:

Assistant Principal

Reports To:

High School Principal
Site:
Shawnee High School

• Secondary School Administrative Certification
• Master's Degree in Education Administration, or related field
• Three or more years of recent classroom experience

Performs supervisory and administrative level duties under the supervision of building principal. In addition, has supervisory responsibility for both certified and support personnel and assists the building principal with the management of all site resources and equipment. Ensures that board and district policies are enforced. Provides leadership to ensure quality education for all students. Utilizes discretion, creativity, ingenuity, and independent judgment due to the complexity of the job.

• Communication skills (oral, written, or business); communicates in clear grammatically correct English.
• Composes correspondence; trains and directs others and provides complex instructions; conducts interviews.
• Uses creativity making public speeches or presentations and completes complex reports.
• Contact with Others:
  Has regular contact with persons outside the district which requires tact and diplomacy, as well as independent judgment when problem‑solving; making formal presentations.
• Interprets policies and procedures based on experience.
• Provides counseling, negotiates, or mediates as appropriate.

• Ensures clear and measurable goals are established and focused on critical needs regarding improving overall student achievement at the school level.
• Ensures clear and measurable goals are established and focused on critical needs regarding improving achievement of individual students within the school.
• Ensures that data are analyzed, interpreted, and used to regularly monitor progress toward school achievement goals.
• Ensures that data are analyzed, interpreted, and used to regularly monitor progress toward school achievement goals for individual students.
• Ensures that appropriate school-level and classroom-level programs and practices are in place to help all students meet individual achievement goals when data indicate interventions are needed.
• Provides a clear vision as to how instruction should be addressed in the school.
• Effectively supports and retains teachers who continually enhance their pedagogical skills through reflection and professional growth plans.
• Assesses predominant instructional practices throughout the school.
• Ensures that teachers are provided with clear, ongoing evaluations of their pedagogical strengths and weaknesses that are based on multiple sources of data and are consistent with student achievement data.
• Ensures that teachers are provided with job‑embedded professional development that is directly related to their instructional growth goals.
• Ensures that the school curriculum and accompanying assessments adhere to state and district standards.
• Ensures that all students have the opportunity to learn the critical content of the curriculum.
• Assists the principal in providing ongoing, research‑based instructional leadership for the school.
• Assists the principal in leading teachers through analysis of all types of data including state testing data, universal screening / progress monitoring data, and benchmark / common assessment data at the individual teacher, grade and school levels to improve student academic achievement.
• Assists the principal in the implementation of Oklahoma Academic Standards as well as all other state and district curriculum.
• Assists the principal in the implementation of district curriculum goals, philosophy and policies within the area of authority.
• Assists teachers in establishing meaningful goals, objectives and evaluation procedures related to educational enhancement.
• Assists teachers in evaluating their methods of instruction/teaching skills and effectiveness of learner outcomes.
• Ensures that teachers meet individual student needs and abilities and develop satisfactory growth in skills based on assessment data.
• Assists teachers in providing a classroom atmosphere conducive to maximum…