Assistant Principal of Middle School Humanities - Camden
Assistant Principal of Middle School Humanities - Camden
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Job Description
Heres what you should know:
The primary responsibility of the Middle School AP of Humanities is to drive and own instructional outcomes for students in humanities courses (ELA and social studies). We expect our APs 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 decisionmaker and leader for a subset of the student population. Our APs coach a portfolio of teachers empowering our highestperforming teachers to continue to excel at their craft and coaching all teammates to achieve excellent outcomes for our students. APs will wear other hats at the school as well including performing key supporting functions for student and staff culture. 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:
Serve as a key member of the schools leadership team
- Actively engages with the entire team to problem solve and operationalize whole school management decisions
- Promotes focused alignment between their teams and the priorities of both the school and the region
- Monitor analyze interpret and share instructional data and ensure that the entire leadership team problem solves for gaps in instructional data
- Coown the vision for instructional culture alongside the school leader and parallel APs of Instruction
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
- Develops teacher leaders where applicable
Qualifications :
Must Haves:
- Bachelors Degree (required)
- Significant content knowledge of middle school ELA
- Excellent student outcomes as a teacher or teacherleader
- Evidence of ability to coach and drive results through others
- Experience successfully leading a team in a schoolbased leadership role such as Department Chair GradeLevel Chair New Teacher Coordinator project leader etc.
- Belief that all students regardless of background have the ability to go to and through college
- Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word & Excel Google Suite Microsoft Outlook and relevant teaching software applications
Additional Information :
Compensation & Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary KIPP New Jersey offers a full comprehensive benefits plan including health care retirement a school laptop and transportation benefits for TEAMmates commuting into New Jersey from the New York City area.
KIPP New Jersey KIPP Miami is an equal opportunity employer
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
