Assistant Principal Middle School

Job Description Position Overview

The Assistant Principal serves as a key member of the school leadership team and works in close partnership with the Principal to ensure every student experiences a safe, joyful, rigorous, and supportive learning environment. The Assistant Principal helps translate the school's academic and cultural vision into strong daily execution by developing teachers, strengthening instruction, supporting student culture, using data to drive action, and leading assigned school wide priorities.

This is a highly visible, student-centered leadership role that requires a strong instructional foundation, the ability to coach and develop adults, sound judgment, and a deep belief in the potential of every student. The Assistant Principal maintains a consistent presence in classrooms and throughout the school, building strong relationships with students, staff, and families while holding high expectations for academic achievement and student success.

The specific portfolio of the Assistant Principal may vary based on school needs and may include responsibility for particular grade levels, content areas, instructional priorities, student culture initiatives, or other school wide functions. Regardless of assignment, the Assistant Principal shares responsibility for improving student outcomes, developing excellent educators, and creating the conditions in which students and adults can thrive.

• Partner with the Principal and instructional leadership team to implement a clear, data-driven academic vision aligned with KIPP Tulsa's academic priorities and state standards.

• Support the consistent implementation of rigorous, standards-aligned, and engaging instruction across assigned classrooms, grade levels, or content areas.

• Conduct frequent classroom observations and learning walks to assess instructional quality, identify trends, and provide teachers with timely and actionable feedback.

• Coach and develop teachers through regular observation, feedback, modeling, practice, goal-setting, and progress monitoring.

• Facilitate or support professional development, instructional team meetings, data meetings, and collaborative planning.

• Analyze assessment results, student work, classroom performance, and other academic indicators to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.

• Partner with teachers and leaders to translate academic data into clear instructional actions and monitor whether those actions improve student outcomes.

• Support the implementation of intervention and acceleration strategies to ensure students receive appropriate academic support and challenge.

• Help monitor the effectiveness of multi-tiered systems of support and collaborate with appropriate team members to address the needs of students requiring additional support.

• Support school wide efforts to strengthen literacy, numeracy, academic achievement, and readiness for students' next educational and career pathways.

• Maintain high expectations for the academic growth and achievement of every student.

• Partner with the Principal and school leadership team to build and sustain a joyful, safe, structured, inclusive, and academically focused school culture.

• Maintain a highly visible presence in classrooms, hallways, arrival, dismissal, transitions, meals, and other areas of school life.

• Build authentic relationships with students and ensure they feel known, valued, supported, and held to high expectations.

• Support teachers in establishing strong classroom cultures, routines, relationships, and student engagement.

• Ensure consistent implementation of school wide expectations, behavior systems, restorative practices, and student support structures.

• Respond to student behavior concerns in a manner that balances accountability, restoration, student dignity, and the needs of the broader school community.

• Analyze attendance, behavior, academic, and student engagement data to identify trends and develop appropriate interventions.

• Collaborate with counselors, teachers, families, and other team members to support students experiencing academic, behavioral, attendance, or social-emotional challenges.

• Celebrate student growth, achievement, leadership, character, and contributions to the school community.

• Help ensure compliance with student safety, discipline, child protection, and other applicable policies and procedures.

• Directly coach, develop, and evaluate an assigned portfolio of teachers or staff members.

• Establish clear expectations for performance and provide consistent feedback and support to help team members meet those expectations.

• Build strong, trusting relationships with staff while maintaining accountability for instructional quality, professional responsibilities, and student outcomes.

• Help create an adult culture characterized by high expectations, collaboration, continuous improvement, professionalism, joy, and shared…