Assistant Principal/Associate School Director (2026-2027 School Year)

DSST Public Schools • Denver, CO

6d • $85,000 - $105,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate School Director (ASD) serves as a systems, culture, and curriculum/instruction leader on the campus in partnership with the School Director. They are responsible for coaching and managing people in both their teaching practice and leadership practice as well as their continuous growth personally. The ASD role supports our belief in the human condition, that every human being strives to be fully known for who they are and the unique contribution they make to the human story. In addition to this, the ASD, in partnership with the School Leadership Team, is responsible for the overall results of the school.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 5 years working in schools and classrooms
• At least 2 years of experience in 6-12 grade school-based leadership
• Demonstrated ability to coach, manage, and lead adults to achieve student success and professional growth
• An unwavering belief that all students can succeed in high school, reach their most ambitious post-secondary goals, and lead exemplary lives
• Desire to personally professionally grow in their practice of becoming an anti-racist educator
• Self-awareness, a regular practice of reflection, and a desire to continuously improve

Nice To Haves

• Proven commitment to and experience with serving students of color, students with disabilities, and/or multilingual students

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a sense of urgency about achievement for ALL students and preparing every student for post secondary success.
• Pursue solutions with tenacity that maximize student achievement.
• Model professional maturity; emotional constancy in stressful situations, bringing out the best in others, seek solutions and positively motivating.
• Mentor and coach staff members to encourage growth and results.
• Identify and systematically develop future leaders.
• Act as a strategic partner to the School Director; fully responsible for executing the vision of the leader in all areas.
• Supervise a substantial portion of the team.
• Cultivate school culture centered on core values that deeply care for each student and staff member and hold each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability.
• Coordinate with the school leadership team to ensure Morning Meetings are robust and supportive of our values-based culture.
• Collaborate with school staff to maximize the ability of the school to support students’ academic and socio-emotional development.
• Provide leadership to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and fun school culture for all staff and students.
• Provide instructional leadership informed by a nuanced understanding of DSST best practices
• Use centralized coaching tool to track all coaching meetings, observations, and action steps.
• Provide teachers with specific, actionable, qualitative (i.e., narrative) and quantitative (i.e., rubric) feedback on their performance in all areas.
• Manage a data-driven instructional process that includes rigorous interim assessments that are effectively aligned with year-end assessments and college readiness.
• Able to align all other school leadership components to the data driven instructional process (professional development, curriculum development, teacher observation/supervision, etc.
• Work with teachers to create and refine DSST curriculum documents (assessments, plans, data tracking), which correspond to college readiness standards, core instructional practices, and the benchmark assessment program
• Create, maintain, and update whole school, grade level, and teacher level student academic and assessment records and reports.
• Oversee required standardized testing
• Identify and arrange for staff development opportunities which relate to core instructional practices, standards based assessments, and content areas.
• Co-manage department chairs to ensure effective outcomes within departments.
• Implement systems that emphasize attention to detail, maximize programmatic goals, and are scalable as the school grows.
• Develop solutions to complex problems involving all stakeholders.
• Manage with fiscal responsibility - develop a disciplined planning process that identifies the school’s highest-priorities.
• Recruit and hire school staff
• Serve as a recruiter for new students; actively engage prospective families in an effort to draw more students to choose your school; be willing to take on additional tasks to support recruitment, as needed.
• Work with DSST Home Office to create network-wide standards, curriculum, and assessment documents
• Work with DSST Home Office to create network-wide new teacher professional development; create school-specific new and returning teacher professional development
• Participate in network wide Instructional Leadership Development and Culture Leadership Development
• If applicable, teach select course(s) within the school
• If applicable, act as a student advisor for a group of students

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Total Rewards package that includes fertility and adoption support, educator-focused mental-health care, and everyday perks like Safeway grocery discounts.
• Weekly 1:1 coaching, data-driven feedback, and clear career pathways such as Apprentice Teacher and Emerging Leader.
• Core Value and TOAST Awards, milestone celebrations, and the signature Flower Person Award honoring staff who help our community flourish.
• Access to the Therapist of Color Collaborative, Wellness Wednesdays, comprehensive health coverage, and six weeks of paid parental leave.
• Time to recharge with 11+ weeks off each year
• Relocation support for out of state applicants
• Local discounts that help you enjoy life in our beautiful sunshine filled state.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director