2026-27 Middle School Assistant Principal of Culture

Responsibilities of the Assistant Principal of Culture will include but are not limited to:

• School Culture

  • Work closely with Principal to establish a positive structured and achievement-oriented school culture

  • Facilitate teacher training and support around discipline relationships expectations consistency and management

  • Coordinate and implement a school-wide discipline system with meaningful incentives and consequences

  • Serve as the point person for discipline/culture issues as well as specific behavioral intervention plans

  • Assist teachers students and parents in the creation and implementation of support plans for individual students

  • Monitor behavioral pull-out in-school suspensions out of-school suspensions and suspension parent re-entry meetings

  • Maintain accurate student discipline records; document all conferences suspensions and phone calls for behavior

  • Plan lead and oversee an effective Tier I Tier II and Tier III behavioral culture and RTI-B process

• Stakeholder Engagement and Management

  • Lead recognition assemblies parent workshops community events and other culture-building activities

  • Support teachers in building relationships with students and parents; implement parental involvement plan

  • Communicate clearly and promptly with teachers families and students when discipline issues occur

  • Ensure that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement

  • Conduct regular school culture walkthroughs classroom observations and audits to help staff maintain a high bar of excellence

  • Lead weekly behavior analysis meetings with each grade level

  • Provide ongoing coaching and development to teachers

  • Plan and lead ongoing student culture professional development throughout the year

  • Manage and coach Behavior Support Specialist(s) and School Counselor(s)

  • Conduct and monitor the successful implementation of 504 Plans Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans

  • Facilitate Support Team Meetings to ensure intervention plans are created for students who need additional behavioral support

  • Track and report student behavior to charter authorizers through Infinite Campus Illuminate DeansList and PowerSchool for KIPP and other regional level reports 

• Growth Mindset

  • Model school core values and character strengths at all times

  • Willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to change and improvement

  • Participate in regional cohort session school-wide and individual professional development including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year

• Other

  • Supervise school entry breakfast lunch transitions and dismissal to ensure they are orderly and positive

  • Lead efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time

  • Lead efforts to ensure all students have excellent homework completion and that homework is checked efficiently

  • Ensure effective field lessons school events and extracurricular activities

Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree

• At least three years of teaching experience (5 years preferred) with a proven record of high achievement and strong classroom management and culture

• Experience teaching an educationally under-resourced community

• Experience coaching and leading adults; proven ability to proactively lead by example

• Demonstrated success in building relationships and trust with leaders teachers students parents and community

• Clear understanding of culturally responsive pedagogy and leadership

• Ability to analyze and proactively respond to culture data

Desired Characteristics

• Unwavering commitment to KIPP Nashvilles mission students families and community

• Firm belief in affirming the identity of students families and staff

• Passionate and committed to being a leader for racial justice and equity and teaching in a school committed to anti-racism

• Passionate about data-driven instruction

• Demonstrates excitement in growing students into their highest self

• Superb personal organization skills to keep on top of deadlines and measures of accountability

• Team player: demonstrates maturity growth mindset strong work ethic follow-through and flexibility

Additional Information :

Compensation

• Salary is competitive commensurate with experience and includes benefits. This position is exempt and will work and be compensated according to a 12 month administrative schedule.

• Robust benefits package including medical dental vision disability and life insurance policy options. Application for these benefits may be made immediately upon employment. The policy is effective upon the first of the month following the first day of work.

• Certificated staff have access to the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System pension plan(TCRS). Eligible employees contribute 5% and KIPP matches up to 6.81%. Employees may also be eligible for 401k in which KIPP will contribute 5%.

• The vacation package for salaried employees includes 29 paid days throughout the 10 month work schedule(including holidays fall break thanksgiving break winter break) as well as summer addition employees in this role are allotted 6 PTO days as well as 10 additional days to take during the summer break.  Employees are allotted an additional 2 days after every 2 consecutive years of employment. Eligible staff members receive payment for unused PTO days at the end of the fiscal year.

• Adoption/Parental Caregiver Leave- up to 10 weeks parental leave for the primary caregiver and 2 weeks parental leave for the secondary caregiver paid at 100%.

• Leaders are provided with laptop computers with access to the internet and or email to assist them in performing their job responsibilities.

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KIPP Nashville is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender sexual preference national or ethnic origin age disability pregnancy or veteran status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time