Assistant Principal - Upper Elementary - Miami
Assistant Principal - Upper Elementary - Miami
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We are hiring for an Elementary Assistant Principal with Upper School (2nd4th grade) experience for KIPP Miami for theschool year!
Heres what you need to know:
KIPP Royalty Academic is seeking an aweinspiring Assistant Principal (APs) to coach and grow our teachers who in turn support our students as they climb the mountain to college career and beyond. We are specifically searching for a candidate with upper elementary (2nd4th grade) experience. Our ideal APs are great teachers with strong results of their own are instructional gurus who can teach their moves to others and have experience leading managing and coaching adults in their schools. They love students and families teachers and the community they serve.
The APs primary responsibility is to drive and own instructional outcomes for students. We expect our Assistant Principals to focus >75% of their time on instructional leadership. APs are the backbone for a specific content area or grade level and see themselves as the key decision maker and leader for a subset of the student population. We expect our APs to coach a portfolio of teachers empowering our highest performing teachers to remain in their roles while improving the performance of new or underperforming teachers. APs will also perform key supporting functions for student and staff culture work. Finally we expect our APs to perform their role through an equity lens with an eye toward outcomes for traditionally underrepresented students and staff members.
Heres what youll be doing:
Instructional Leadership
- Strong Content Knowledge: Knows essential content rigor of standards and highly effective teaching strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; is able to readily adapt to leverage resources across lessknown or more nuanced subject areas
- Develops the capacity of teachers in achieving results through observations walkthroughs real time coaching and data analysis through O3s focused on student data and coaching towards goals
- Collaborates with Achievement Directors and other Teaching & Learning TEAMmates to monitor achievement data and IP and inform the instructional leadership development of teachers
- Audits analyzes and progress monitors data weekly to inform strategic decisions and priorities
- Designs and leads high quality professional development such that it results in improved teacher effectiveness
- Ensures theres an effective testing environment investment and procedures for testing
Student Culture
- Consistently reinforces high expectations for all students all the time
- Actively develops school culture where students find joy in learning and where students are joyful and engaged
- Creates a culture in which teachers build strong and lasting relationships with students especially the most challenging students
- Builds an inclusive student environment ensuring that all student voices are heard and incorporated
- Speaks to violations of culture and holds staff accountable to values / professional infractions with interactions with kids
Staff Culture
- Celebrates and shows appreciation regularly for teammates
- Actively develops school culture where teachers find joy in teaching and student learning
- Consistently models and reinforces high expectations for all staff all the time
- Develops clearly articulated systems for how the staff culture will function (e.g. coaching department meetings etc.)
Community Engagement
- Engages families and community stakeholders proactively and productively as partners in school goals. Works with families who have concerns and helps address them.
- Creates a culture and expectation that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive support in their childs longterm success
Talent Management
- Ensures each direct report has a high quality performance management process including regular observations assignment of microgoals and thoughtful written evaluations
- Identifies top performing teachers at regular points throughout the school year and works strategically to retain them
- Manages struggling performers through goal setting and increased support. Manages out low performers when necessary
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree
- Student Focus: Belief that all students regardless of background have the ability to go to and through college; demonstrated commitment to the schools unique community
- Achievement Orientation: Demonstrated student achievement results in own classroom and from teachers that he/she manages
- Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
- Instructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis and strong content knowledge
- High Expectations: Sets and upholds high expectations for students academically and behaviorally
- Results through Others: Evidence of ability to teach other skills in classroom management and effective lesson execution
- Relationship Building: Evidence of ability to build strong relationships with students staff and families
- Strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills
- Experience coaching and managing others and/or leading a team to results
Additional Information :
KIPP Miami offers a full comprehensive benefits plan including health care competitive 403(B) plan and a school laptop.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
