Assistant Principal High School (InstructionalELA)

Description

Immediate opening for an Assistant Principal of Instruction/ELA for our 6-12 school in Huntington Park CA.

ABOUT ASPIRE

Aspire Public Schools operates a network of high-performing college preparatory charter schools serving TK-12 scholars in communities across California. Founded in 1998in an effort to transform the inequitable racial social and gender outcomes that our communities persist throughAspire is one of the largest and most forward-thinking open-enrollment public charter school systems in the nation.

Our purpose is to prepare our scholars for success in college career and life. At Aspire we set a foundation for our scholars to gain knowledge skills and power to access and make choices for their families and post-secondary lives. Every day our community of students families teachers and staff comes together to learn work and play in an environment grounded in our values of Bienestar (Well-Being) Culture of Belonging Community Partnership Agency & Self-Determination and Joy.

JOB SUMMARY

Assist the Site Principal in managing all the functions of an individual school site for academic and extended school year including education program school culture office operations budget community relations personnel and facilities in accordance with Aspire standards.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

Provide Instructional Leadership for the school site including

• Maintain school-wide focus on high standards of student achievement

• Maintain curriculum standards and liaise with content leads to design and implement curriculum

• Model Aspire instructional guidelines

• Manage process for analyzing data to increase student achievement including students with special needs and related compliance and collaboration with SPED and Student Services colleagues

• Design and lead high quality professional development to increase instructional capacity of staff

• Support and coaching of new and veteran teachers toward growth including supporting new Teachers through Induction

Assist in managing human resources including

• Attract and select top performers

• Coach evaluate and provide professional development opportunities

• Develop collaborative team culture

• Adhere to company policy and state/federal employment laws

• Consult with Human Resources as appropriate including for all performance management related concerns

Assist in managing all resources at school site and/or manage specified grant or categorical funds

including

• Set and maintain a balanced budget

• Adhere to restrictions and reporting requirements of funds

• Plan for future needs

• Adhere to company policy and protocols for sound fiscal management

Represent the school site in building an effective school community including

• Design and lead high quality professional development that develops and supports healthy school culture including SEL learning

• Communicate with parents to better serve students

• Garner support from community groups and leaders

• Develop positive relationships with sponsoring district and neighborhood schools

• Lead and collaborate with Behavior Response and Wellness teams from a trauma-informed and Restorative Justice lens in alignment with compliance protocol and in partnership with Student Services including: 504 plan compliance; Student Support Discipline Deescalation supervision of students as needed and management of any outside partnerships as applicable

Assist in managing daily operations facilities safety and administrative processes

• Address issues and problems that arise in a principle-centered creative thoughtful and constructive way

• Serve as administrative lead when Principal attends off-site meetings providing supervision for staff

• Provide leadership and support for extracurricular and partnership programs as applicable especially at the Secondary level

• Collaborate with Principal to support Master Scheduling

Lead projects as discussed with principal including

• Long-term strategic planning process improvement cycle of inquiry-driven instructional improvements operational improvement charter renewal and oversight accreditation or any other projects required at the school site

• Work in collaboration with School Site Leadership and Home Office to achieve site and organizational goals

Additional:

• Demonstrate knowledge of and support the Aspire Public Schools mission vision value statements including antiracism policies and procedures operating instructions confidentiality standards and the code of ethical behavior

• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Competencies:

• Demonstrated commitment to students and learning

• Experience with instructional leadership including demonstrated knowledge of curriculum instruction assessment and developing teachers

• Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively and interact effectively with different audiences

• Excellent organization time management and follow-up skills; high sense of urgency; demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work as a team

• Entrepreneurial passion

Minimum educational level:

• Bachelors Degree required;

• Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred

Certifications and/or Licensure :

• Administrative Credential preferred

• NCLB Highly Qualified preferred

1. Experience required:

• 3 years working with urban students as a full-time teacher preferred

• 7 years teaching and administrative experience

1. Physical requirements:

• Stand walk or bend over kneel crouch reach overhead grasp push and pull. Move lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds to shoulder height

• Repetitive use of hands (i.e. fine manipulation simple grasping and power grasping)

• Demonstrate normal depth perception

• Sitting walking or standing for extended periods of time

• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard operate standard office equipment and use a telephone

• See and read a computer screen and printed matter with or without vision aids

• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone with or without auditory aides

1. Work authorization requirements:

• Clear the Department of Justice background screening

• Authorized to work in the United States

• Provide health (TB) clearance (most update every four years)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics are representative of those in a normal office classroom/school setting which one might encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work indoors in a standard office environment computer lab and/or classroom environment

• Work is performed in indoor and outdoor environments

• Exposure to dust oils and cleaning chemicals

• Some exposure to childhood and other diseases in a school environment

• May be required to work outside of typical work days and office hours to meet operational deadlines

EEO STATEMENT

Aspire Public Schools provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

This position description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant.

Required Experience:

Staff IC