Required or preferred licenses and certifications for Assistant Principal positions.

The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Assistant Principal position

• Adult Education
• Athletics
• Behavior Management
• Blended Learning
• Budget Planning
• Budgets
• Classroom Instruction
• Classroom Management
• Closing
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Common Core State Standards
• Communication Skills
• Community Relations
• Counseling
• Curriculum Development
• Data-Driven Instruction
• Decision Making
• Educational Leadership
• Educational Technology
• Employee Development
• English
• Evaluation
• Events
• Human Resources
• Implementation
• Instructional Coaching
• Instructional Leadership
• Instructional Strategies
• Interpersonal Skills
• Interviewing
• Leadership
• Management
• Materials Management
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• MTSS
• Organization
• Outreach Marketing
• Planning
• Policy Administration
• Policy Development
• Professional Learning Communities
• Program Evaluation
• Project Coordination
• Regulations
• Regulatory Compliance
• Reporting
• Research Skills
• Response to Intervention
• Restorative Justice
• Scheduling
• School Administration
• School Improvement
• School Leadership
• School Operations
• Social and Emotional Learning
• Special Education
• Special Needs
• Staff Development
• Staff Supervision
• Student Discipline
• Student Management
• Student Services
• Teacher Evaluation
• Teaching
• Training and Development

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