KIPP New Orleans Schools (KNOS) is a non-profit network of 13 college-preparatory, public charter schools serving 6,200 elementary, middle, and high school students, and over 1,500 alumni.  While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: To build academically excellent schools that create unlimited opportunity for all students. For over 15 years, we have a proven track record of preparing students for success in college, career, and beyond.

At KIPP, you have the freedom to innovate and the support to grow. You never stop learning, and you’re part of a national network that’s leading the way in getting students from underserved communities to and through college. As we grow to serve more students in communities across the country, we need passionate teammates to join us and make their impact at KIPP. Where will YOU take us?  Click here to learn more about teaching and working at KIPP New Orleans Schools!

As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race/ethnicity, economic status, age/ability, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, country of origin, language(s) spoken, and/or other diverse backgrounds.

At KIPP, we see the gifts in everyone who walks through the doors of our schools. Especially our leaders. Their skill. Energy. Love. Their determination. On the good days, and the hard ones. So we support our leaders to make the most of those gifts in order to build academically excellent schools and create unlimited opportunities for all of our students.

The KIPP Difference

• Respect: For our leaders’ innate talent and desire to learn, for their professional growth and the lives they lead beyond our walls.
• Support: Our leaders always feel the KIPP Team and Family at their backs, with support to grow and opportunities to lead. 
• Purpose: Together, we share an ambitious mission to create a future without limits. And we need talented leaders to realize it.

The Assistant Principal’s job is to support the school in driving academic and cultural outcomes for students as a key member of the school’s leadership team. KNOS Assistant Principals lead both instruction and school culture, as well as develop leadership in the school’s emerging leaders.

 As a KIPP New Orleans Assistant Principal, your core responsibilities include:

1. Model and support implementation of the school’s vision and goal
   • Supports development of School Leader’s school-wide vision and takes an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school; owns the implementation of select school priorities in support of the school-wide vision
   • With guidance from the School Leader, leads the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that he/she coaches and ensures alignment with school-wide goals
      
2. Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritizes time to accomplish goals
   • Provides input into the school-based strategic planning including and identifies what the school’s strategic plan means for his/her own leadership and people that he/she manages
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3. Develop emerging leaders with School Leader’s guidance
   • Supports the School Leader in identifying and developing emerging and teacher leaders (Department Heads and/or Grade Level Chairs) through goal setting, coaching and providing feedback
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4. Model strong staff and student culture and manage school-wide character development and behavior management systems
   • Supports teachers in understanding process and roles in student support and intervention and develops systems and structures to ensure that limited time is spent on reactive student discipline
   • Manage parts of the daily school operations (e.g. arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, school trips)
   • Acts as the first Leadership Team contact on student intervention and parent engagement hierarchy; determines next steps for issues that rise above the teacher/grade level/department chair
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5. Collaborate with School Leader on hiring diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff
    
6. Build own and direct reports’ instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods 
   • Content (Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment): 
     • Develops deep mastery over the academic standards in the subjects/grades for which he/she coaches, and strong understanding of academic standards for all subjects/grades. Understands the implications of standards on what a student should know and be able to do, connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge, and therefore what a teacher needs to know and be able to do to facilitate student mastery
     • Studies curriculum and assessment content and further develops understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery on the assessments 
     • Teaches teachers how to assess for both student mastery and growth towards college readiness and insists that assessments are used to inform teacher instruction 
   • Research-based Instructional Practices (Methods and Time):
     • Develops own and teacher’s knowledge of best practices in instructional methods and teaches teachers how to match particular strategies to gaps in student mastery
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7. Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instruction and support School Leader in planning and implementing enabling systems of the Academic Strategies Pyramid 
   • Data Analysis (Data-driven Instruction and Progress Monitoring):
     • Lead data-driven instruction. Help teachers: determine how data aligns to end-of-year goals (what is being assessed and how it maps to standards); break-out data to analyze how different student groups are performing; determine what data is saying about areas of student mastery and growth; and identify specific instructional actions and adjustments to fill students’ knowledge and skill gaps and a timeline to do so 
   • Teacher Instructional Development (Instructional Coaching, Content Teams, and Workshops): 
     • Provide high-quality instructional coaching with frequent and scheduled teacher observations, actionable and bite-sized feedback, and accountability for adjustment in practice
     • Coach emerging leaders on their instructional coaching practice
     • May lead or coach others who lead department/content/grade-level meetings that focus on planning for and norming on instruction and culture, practicing instructional strategies, and progress monitoring the department/content/grade level 
     • Recommend to the School Leader what school-wide professional development will be the highest leverage in improving student results; lead engaging, actionable, adult-learning workshops; and hold staff accountable for implementation of the workshop practices
        
8. Prioritize Assistant Principal’s own success and sustainability by engaging lifelines and renewing to get stronger

The following are required of all KIPP New Orleans Assistant Principals:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years teaching experience in urban, open enrollment schools and demonstrated student results at an exemplary level
• Successful completion of State and Federal Criminal Background Check
• Personal affinity to our mission and vision, as well as demonstrated commitment to our 5 core beliefs - Relentlessness, Equity, Achievement, Community, and Hope
• Instructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across school-wide data
• Instructional Leadership: Expertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state assessments require of students’ knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies
• Instructional Leadership: Deep understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of high-leverage instructional strategies (e.g. make kids do the heavy lifting, pacing, stretch-it, etc.) based on comprehension of child development and pedagogy
• Instructional Leadership: Command of instructional design and the benefits and tradeoffs of school design decisions in driving student achievement
• Achievement Orientation: Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes
• Student Focus: Belief that all students, regardless of background, have the ability to go to and through college; demonstrated commitment to the school’s unique community
• Talent Development: Demonstrated success in developing leadership capacity in others
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
• Performance Management: Demonstrated student achievement results from teachers and leaders that he/she manages and coaches
• Direction Setting: Ability to set direction across an entire school and motivate others to action
• Provide documentation of either 1) received a COVID-19 vaccination or 2) have requested, and been granted, reasonable accommodation from the KNOS Director of Human Resources to be exempted from the requirements of this policy

The following are strongly preferred for all KIPP New Orleans Assistant Principals:

• Masters in Education or aligned content
• 3-5 years teaching experience with at least 2 years of leadership experience in urban, open enrollment schools and demonstrated student results at an exemplary level in both roles
• State issued teaching credential

The physical demands and environmental conditions described below are representative, but not exhaustive,  of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role.  All of these physical requirements should be able to be performed with clarity, coherence and connectedness of the KNOS vision, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Must be able to sit and work at a desk/computer for extended periods of time
• Must be able to spend the majority of the day standing or mobile throughout the classroom, as well as talk, hear, grasp, reach and lift up to 30lbs with or without accommodations
• Ability to concentrate in active and noisy environments such as cafeterias and playgrounds, to more moderate situations such as classrooms or large group professional settings
• Must be able to have repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement to work on computer and/or related office equipment
• Ability to handle potential high stress conditions 

• We offer a competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package including:
  • Healthcare & Wellness (health, vision, dental, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and short-term disability)
     
• 403(b) retirement plan with up to a 5% salary match
   
• 90 PTO hours equaling 10 days per year
  • Approximately 28 holidays per year including Mardi Gras, Juneteenth, Thanksgiving, and Winter Break
  • 4 week Admin PTO Window in May/June
• On-going professional development opportunities