Job Description

Basic Function:

The Assistant Principal actively drives student academic outcomes by facilitating professional development and supporting, coaching, and evaluating staff while creating and maintaining a safe and supportive academic culture.

Essential Duties:

• Provide direct coaching and instructional guidance to staff
• Plan and provide professional development in collaboration with others
• Model identity-safe, culturally-relevant pedagogical practices
• Model effective use of differentiated instructional strategies for diverse learners
• Model successful classroom management strategies
• Observe staff and debrief the observations to improve teaching practices
• Provide staff with regular constructive feedback
• Conduct staff evaluations using LPS-approved evaluation rubrics
• Co-plan units, lessons, and formative assessments with staff
• Support staff in collection and analysis of student data results
• Develop staff’s ability to differentiate instruction to meet individualized student needs as determined by diagnostic and formative assessment data
• Collaborate with school leaders to make instructional decisions based on student performance and make recommendations for best practices
• Evaluate staff performance
• Use data to guide coaching plans
• Oversee after school, summer and other academic intervention programs
• Oversee state and network assessments
• Serve on school leadership teams as assigned
• Support student discipline
• Plan and facilitate student, family, and community meetings and activities
• Maintain communication with caregivers as needed
• Develop positive relationships with school community that are aligned with LPS’ culture and values
• Contribute to the cultivation of strong and cohesive professional learning communities

Other Duties

• Perform related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

Any combination equivalent to:

• a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• 4 years of successful teaching experience in diverse educational setting(s)
• Minimum of one year of successful coaching experience
• Minimum of one year of successful experience planning and facilitating professional development

Licensing and Other Requirements

• Valid Clear California Teaching Credential
• Valid California Administrative Services Credential or Certificate of Eligibility or Verification of enrollment in an Administrative Services Credential or intent to complete the CPACE exam
• Employment eligibility that includes fingerprint, tuberculosis, and/or other employment clearances

Knowledge of:

• Instructional programs, methods, and practices that accelerate student learning and achievement
• Leadership development practices and effective supervision and performance evaluation
• California standards, curriculum frameworks and current research-based practices and trends as they relate to work scope
• Culturally-responsive pedagogy
• Adult learning principles and change management theory
• Effective professional development practices, including data-based inquiry

Skills and Ability to:

• Support, monitor and evaluate instructional program effectiveness
• Use and analyze data to develop action plans
• Implement collaborative and team building processes
• Plan, implement, and monitor high-leverage professional development
• Facilitate dissent and conduct difficult and constructive conversations effectively
• Provide timely and actionable feedback, including officially evaluating staff performance
• Provoke, inspire and motivate people to make progress toward goals
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Work effectively across diverse communities
• Manage various projects and/or demands demonstrating flexibility and effective time-management skills

Working Conditions:

Environment

• Instructional environment which includes indoor and outdoor activities

Physical Demands

• Mental acuity
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard
• Hearing and speaking to communicate
• Seeing to observe and read materials
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time
• Pulling, pushing, lifting and/or carrying instructional materials and equipment

Leadership Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity at all levels.

Notification of Non-Discrimination Policy

Leadership Public Schools prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived race, religion creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, parental, family, or marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex (sexual harassment), or sexual orientation, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Complaint forms are available at school sites and on the network webpage at

For inquiries or concerns regarding LPS nondiscrimination policy or the filing of discrimination complaints please contact:

Chris Harrell, Director of Student Services and Facilities, Title IX Coordinator
99 Linden Street
Oakland, CA 94607
email: charrell@leadps.org
Phone: 510-830-3780 x115

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