Assistant Principal of Academics

Organization Overview

Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) Schools is comprised of a non-profit network of public charter schools designed to significantly increase high school graduation rates, college entrance, and college graduation rates for underserved students in North-East Los Angeles, and the North-East San Fernando Valley.

Our mission at PUC Schools is to develop and manage high-quality charter schools in densely populated urban communities with overcrowded and low-achieving schools. We create school programs and cultures that promote college graduation for all students. We uplift and revitalize communities through the success of our students and through inspiring them to uplift our communities now and forever and through the development of educational and other supportive partnerships.

The Team Member we are searching for

The ideal Assistant Principal of Academics believes in and is passionate about the mission and commitments of PUC Schools and exhibits this through their leadership, reflection, execution of school culture, and collaboration to ensure student success. This individual exhibit this through supporting the principal in motivating, leading, and mentoring teachers with instructional practice, individual and school-wide professional development, student support, and organizational practices.

What you will need to accomplish:

Academic

• Be an instructional leader who will motivate, lead and mentor teachers to better instructional practice and increase content expertise by meeting the goals of the school-wide improvement plan

Individual Teacher Professional and Instructional Support

• Review instructional documents and provide feedback to teachers
• Observe classroom performance and give constructive feedback
• Design and review progress toward Professional Growth Plan goals with teachers
• Use appropriate data, in collaboration with others, to establish rigorous, concrete goals in the context of student achievement and instructional programs

School-wide Professional and Instructional Support

• Use research and/or best practices to drive decision-making about the academic program
• Provide instructional resources to teachers
• Design and deliver Professional Development on an ongoing basis that is based on school improvement plan
• Facilitate weekly PD/Staff Meetings in alignment with school improvement plan and mission

Individual Student Support

• Design and evaluate student intervention plans (academic & behavioral) (individual student, small group, school-wide)
• Attend IEP meetings, coordinate instructional actions by Resource Specialists, and insure completion of IEP goals
• Facilitate FST meetings in the absence of the Principal
• Design process for measuring and monitoring individual student growth (i.e., student portfolio)

School-Wide Program

• Ensure academic program meets compliance regulations around credit and course requirement 
• Design an academic program that supports and promotes early college mission
• Design a school improvement plan

Organizational Practices

• Be an organizational leader who will motivate, lead, and mentor those within the school community and who will collaborate with the home office to ensure effective fiscal and operational practices in support of the achievement of the school-wide improvement plan

Calendar

• Develop and implement an ongoing process for assessing students’ needs (including delivery of internal and external benchmarks)
• Create school calendar, bell