The Associate Administrator is responsible for helping staff establish a safe, positive, and respectful school culture in which students are supported and are recognized for excellence. The Associate Administrator will work in a highly visible leadership capacity to maintain a supportive, productive, and enriching school culture. The Associate Administrator will play an instrumental role in establishing and reinforcing high expectations for an actively engaging learning environment. The Associate Administrator will maintain consistent and constructive communication with teachers, principals, students, and student families in an effort to ensure that school culture norms are effectively defined and reinforced. The Associate Administrator will support teachers in their development of creating a culture of learning and an environment of respect and rapport.
Responsibilities include:
- Acting as an active member of the school’s building leadership team;
- Setting measurable goals for the upcoming academic year and plan ways to make them a part of school culture;
- Lead and coordinate schoolwide assessments; act as School Assessment Coordinator;
- Support the student registration and master scheduling process;
- Serve on school and district committees as directed by principal;
- Serve as site leader and liaison to district office for AVID;
- Responsible for coordinating and supporting student attendance, behavior, and crisis-intervention plans to achieve site identified goals;
- Facilitating the school’s PBIS processes;
- Proactively construct a positive student culture and mitigate disciplinary infractions before they occur;
- Educating students, staff, and families regarding the handbook guidelines, and holding all constituents accountable for adhering to the handbook;
- Creating community by leading restorative and responsive practices, student groups/circles and student celebrations;
- Serving as a behavior coach for teachers;
- Analyzing data for needs, and evaluating the issues around classroom management, classroom procedures, and other identified areas;
- Seeking to study, review, and share related research materials and documents to increase understanding around the classroom environment;
- Facilitating faculty and staff professional development related to school culture, restorative practices, consistent implementation of PBIS, and social-emotional support for students;
- Using knowledge of students and families and their diverse needs to ensure equitable healthy and effective responses to student needs;
- Supporting faculty and parents in creating intervention plans and individual behavioral contracts and helping to monitor student progress with those plans;
- Assisting with the coordination of Intervention meetings as well as grade level or department student themed meetings;
- Serving as an administrative designee for Child Study and IEP meetings;
- Coordinating supervision of cafeteria, and passing time; and
- Designing, attending and participating in events outside of normal school hours, and performing such other duties as the school may reasonably assign from time to time.