2025-26 Elementary Assistant Principal - John Glenn Elementary

Western Heights Public Schools•Oklahoma City, OK

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Elementary Assistant Principal performs administrative duties under minimal supervision to plan, implement, and administer a comprehensive educational program for all students in the school. The role aims to provide a positive climate for teachers and staff to enable them to provide maximum educational benefits to all students. This includes leading instructional program development, overseeing curriculum, managing school operations, supervising staff and students, administering the budget, maintaining records, ensuring school safety, and communicating with the community. The Assistant Principal also has formal responsibility for supervising, evaluating, recommending employment status, and disciplining a large staff including faculty, support staff, and administration.

Requirements

Administrative certification from state
Master’s degree
Three to five years teaching as well as leadership and management experience

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate in the school, providing a pleasant, safe, and orderly climate.
Leads in the development, determination of appropriateness, and monitoring of the instructional program, overseeing curriculum and instructional development, developing goals, and preparing the site accreditation.
Assists in the recruiting, screening, hiring, training, assigning, and evaluating of the school’s professional staff, setting high expectations for staff.
Conducts staff meetings as necessary.
Oversees all operations of the building office, submits activity calendar of events to Central Office, and supervises the daily use of the school facilities for both academic and nonacademic purposes.
Supervises students before, during, and after school as needed, and monitors and refines the building discipline plan.
Prepares and administers the school budget and supervises school finances, monitoring the allocation and distribution of various funds, and providing needed resources for staff.
Assumes full responsibility for the maintenance of all required records and reports.
Orients newly-assigned staff members and assists in their development as appropriate.
Assumes responsibility for the safety and administration of the school site, monitoring safety and condition of building and grounds, and bus safety and traffic flow.
Establishes and maintains regular communication with parents and the community, maintaining ongoing communication to students, parents, and staff through bulletins, announcements, newsletters, and meetings.
Observes teachers in the classroom and evaluates staff as defined by the district, and evaluates support staff as appropriate.
Participates in professional growth and approves professional leave for staff.
Develops a master schedule for the building, establishes duty schedules for the supervision of students during recess, lunch, and before/after school, and develops annual duty rosters.
Analyzes student test scores and provides data to work toward improvement in academic performance.
Performs other duties as assigned by the superintendent.
Supervises a large staff including faculty, support staff, and administration.
Has formal responsibility to evaluate employees.
Makes formal written recommendations regarding employment status of employees.
Has formal responsibility or authority to discipline all site employees under principal’s supervision.