Assistant Principal (Blytheville, AR)

Company Description

KIPP Delta is part of the nationwide KIPP non-profit network of 275 college-preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. KIPP Delta currently serves more than 1,200 students across 5 schools in Helena and Blytheville, AR.

Job Description

Position Overview

The Assistant Principal’s job is to support the school in driving academic and social emotional learning outcomes for students as a key member of the school’s leadership team. Assistant Principals are expected to lead both instruction and school culture, while developing the skills of the school's emerging leaders. At KIPP Delta, we believe that our Assistant Principals are our future school leaders and are being actively developed for school leadership. This Assistant Principal should consider him/herself an apprentice to the School Leader and the AP should gradually build capacity to lead a KIPP school. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Leadership

• Serve as an effective KIPP Delta Public Schools organizational ambassador consistently striving to live as a servant leader with a growth mindset, an intolerance of mediocrity, and a commitment to the success of all students, staff and families.

• Model being a lead learner and effectively lead adults to accept and demonstrate that his or her actions, decisions, and behaviors can affect student learning and the success of others.

• Reflect, self-critique and utilize feedback to set and monitor progress toward appropriate goals.

• Coach teachers to continuously improve their pedagogy and implement the approved evidence-based curriculum and materials.

• Ensure meetings are necessary, valuable for participants, and always intentionally designed to aid in the achievement of school/district goals.

• 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 regional priorities

• Project plans and manages school-wide initiative (including who does what and what the action steps will be), even in the face of ambiguity

• Create trust and employs group facilitation skills to build a sense of community with the goal of working toward excellence.

• Communicate transparently and with empathy and professionalism.

Educational Equity and Inclusion

• Support the KIPP Delta Public Schools vision for academic excellence and critical consciousness, so that our students have “access to pursue the path they choose.”

• Engage with “love, faith, and humility” towards all members of our community.

• Encourage student independence and choice, embracing multiple means of completing a task/activity; welcoming students to be themselves and to bring their family culture to school, while teaching them what white culture is and how each show up outside of KIPP Delta Public Schools; openly sharing rationale for the “why” behind vision, value, policy and/or practice.

• Partner with teachers to ensure bulletin boards, displays, instructional materials, and other visuals in the classroom reflect students’ racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

• Work to ensure students, staff and families of all identity groups are full participants in decisions that shape the school or department.

• Commit to working with families as equals, co-educators, learners and decision makers.

Performance Management

• Facilitate the lesson plan review process.

• Support the implementation of professional learning communities across all grade levels.

• Conduct regular classroom walkthroughs and observations.

• Support the creation and implementation of professional growth plans and performance improvement plans.

• Monitors the fidelity and consistency of the implementation of the selected evidence-based practices and their impact on student learning and achievement.

• Conduct weekly one-on-one meetings and/or coaching sessions with assigned teachers and leaders.

• Use data to drive the continuous improvement of professional development, instructional coaching and teaching and learning.

Other Responsibilities

• Support student recruitment, enrollment, and retention activities as needed.

• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• At least 4 years of teaching experience and 1-2 years of experience as a mentor/master teacher, grade level chair, instructional coach, or equivalent leadership role.