Job purpose
The Assistant Principal works closely with the school Principal & Site Administrator to develop and foster a positive and safe learning environment for students and families and helps lead the school team to success in our Three Pillars: Onboard Strength, Academic Strength, and Career Readiness Strength. The Assistant Principal is second in command to the school Principal and assumes responsibilities of school operations in the Principal’s absence or as directed by the Principal.

Primary responsibilities include:
• Onboard Strength:
o Lead by example in the team effort of achieving full enrollment each summer.
o Maintain enrollment throughout the year through active retention efforts.
o Improve upon existing recruiting methods and develop new channels by spending significant time in your community with high school counselors, service agencies, and many other community resources that serve students who need to recover credits and find a safe and positive place to complete high school.
• Academic Strength:
o Achieve “Meets Standard” or “Exceeds Standard” on the annual Ohio community school report card.
o Ensure that the academic program is engaging and serves the student’s needs for timely graduation and essential career-ready skills in reading, writing, and math.
o Collaborate with FusionEd’s network leadership to train your team in academic practices that maintain a quality, effective program.
• Career Readiness Strength:
o Guide students into promising job and career pathways as an integral part of their path to graduation and beyond.
o Collaborate with CTE staff in outreach to local employers to further develop job skills training at school and at work locations to simultaneously fulfill academic credits, work credit hours, pre-apprenticeship, and externship requirements.

• Track the progress of all students, with special attention on upper classmen, providing them the coaching needed for them to progress in their graduation and career plan and score well on required tests.
• Increases teachers’ capacity to analyze research to make instructional decisions
• Advances teachers’ understanding and use of various strategies to assess student progress toward established goals and to improve teaching practice
• Acts as a resource to support job-embedded professional learning and improved academic achievement in the school
• Facilitates a variety of in-depth, sustained professional learning experience aligned with the school improvement goals for student achievement
• Provides classroom-based support for implementation of new and/or refined instructional practices
• Creates structures and processes for collaborative work that promote collegiality and shared responsibility
• Keeps school leader, school board and other stakeholder aware of activities, progress, obstacles and successes in student achievement and improved teacher practice
• Participate in school and extra-curricular activities as directed by the Principal
• Performs student home visits as needed
• Performs all other duties as assigned