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