Assistant Principal of Instruction; SY

THE ORGANIZATION
Lighthouse Community Public Schools

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we are engaged in an educational movement that goes beyond our classrooms working to disrupt inequities by providing our students and families exceptional educational opportunities every day. Grounded in our core values of community, integrity, agency, love, and social justice rooted in the EL Education Model, LCPS is a leader in fostering innovative schools achieving exceptional student outcomes where each child is at the center of their own learning.

Our mission is to prepare diverse students for college, a career of their choice, and to be lifelong changemakers. Founded in 2002, LCPS operates two high-achieving K-12 public charter schools--Lighthouse and Lodestar--serving nearly 1,600 students in East Oakland. Lighthouse is a beacon for public education and our graduates fulfill the promise of a better, brighter Oakland. Learn more hthousecharter.org.

At Lighthouse Community Public Schools, the Assistant Principal (AP) is a developing instructional leader who works with the Principal and instructional leadership team to lead middle school culture and learning systems. The AP, together with the principal and teacher leaders, will work to foster an innovative and progressive learner-centered school community, including being tasked with leadership of specific school initiatives/systems. The Assistant Principal’s primary responsibility will be to develop, coach, and supervise a sub-set of teachers and other staff under their supervision to best implement relationship-based, purposeful, and learner-centered pedagogies and systems in alignment with the LCPS Mission, Theory of Change, Graduate Profile, and Instructional Stances.

The Assistant Principal is also responsible for cultivating school culture, including serving as a champion and liaison for students and families. The AP will be accountable for managing one or more elements of the academic program/systems leading to improved student and staff outcomes, with particular attention to our most vulnerable students (SPED, English learners, African-American boys, etc.). The AP will work in collaboration with the principal, dean, and teacher leaders to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment at the site to the LCPS shared vision and Strategic Plan.

This is an exciting opportunity for a growing, committed, and equity-focused instructional or teacher leader who is energized to develop their school leadership capacity and passionate about transformational growth for yourself, the teachers, staff, students, and families you will serve, and our Oakland community.

LCPS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CORE COMPETENCIES

As a strategic and visionary leader for equity, LCPS Principals:

• Inspire a shared vision of college and career readiness in collaboration with the leadership team.
• Ensure an exceptional education for all by monitoring and developing the academic program and by facilitating data-driven and equity-focused teams.
• Encourage the heart by promoting a joyful organizational & school culture that attends to the needs of the whole child and adult.
• Empower and engage the community by mobilizing families, students, staff, and other community stakeholders as partners to achieve our vision.
• Enable others to act by supervising and developing teachers resulting in retention of a diverse, highly effective team and increased student outcomes..
• Innovate and problem solve by exhibiting persistence, creativity, flexibility, motivation to make change, and the ability to imagine new approaches and opportunities for impact.
• Model the way as a leader for equity through skilled and culturally competent collaboration, communication, and relationship-building.
• Embody LCPS’ core values of community, integrity, love, social justice, and agency
• Bring passion to the school’s growth as a dependable, organized, solutions-oriented, and optimistic transformational leader committed to our community.

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND OUTCOMES

Supervise and Develop Adults and Teams (20%)

• Contribute to building a strong, collaborative,…