24-25 Assistant Principal (Next Year Opening)

Company Description

KIPP New Orleans Schools (KNOS) is a non-profit network of 13 college-preparatory, public charter schools serving 6,200 elementary, middle, and high school students, and over 1,500 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 over 15 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. As we grow to serve more students in communities across the country, we need passionate teammates to join us and make their impact at KIPP. Where will YOU take us?  Click here to learn more about teaching and working at KIPP New Orleans Schools!

As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race/ethnicity, economic status, age/ability, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, country of origin, language(s) spoken, and/or other diverse backgrounds.

Job Description

At KIPP, we see the gifts in everyone who walks through the doors of our schools. Especially our leaders. Their skill. Energy. Love. Their determination. On the good days, and the hard ones. So we support our leaders to make the most of those gifts in order to build academically excellent schools and create unlimited opportunities for all of our students.

The KIPP Difference

• Respect: For our leaders’ innate talent and desire to learn, for their professional growth and the lives they lead beyond our walls.
• Support: Our leaders always feel the KIPP Team and Family at their backs, with support to grow and opportunities to lead. 
• Purpose: Together, we share an ambitious mission to create a future without limits. And we need talented leaders to realize it.

The Assistant Principal’s job is to support the school in driving academic and cultural outcomes for students as a key member of the school’s leadership team. KNOS Assistant Principals lead both instruction and school culture, as well as develop leadership in the school’s emerging leaders.

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

1. Model and support implementation of the school’s vision and goal
   • 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
      
2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. Collaborate with School Leader on hiring diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff
    
6. 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 con