KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 32,000 students across Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. We are looking for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader with significant experience leading schools (particularly in transformation settings) to improve and become a premier campus marked by academic excellence and joy.
Requirements
- Lead a team to successfully build a school of academic excellence and joy
- Set ambitious school-wide vision and goals, aligned to state wide targets, that will lead to school improvement and put students on a path to and through college.
- Create and execute school-wide plans to prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals.
- Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to achievement and collaborative spaces of opportunity.
- Lead, coach, and develop a school leadership team of Assistant Principals of Instructions, Assistant Principal of Operations, and other leadership staff.
- Hire, supervise, coach, and retain instructional, and support staff at all levels across the schools.
- Partner with state-wide departments to implement financial, operations, and talent systems and processes.
- Cultivate a high-potential school leadership pipeline.
- Act as the School’s Instructional Leader
- Partner with KIPP TX’s Academic department and Head of Schools to translate KIPP TX’s academic strategy to drive towards school improvement and student academic success.
- Develop staff’s capacity to internalize high quality instructional materials, including grade level standards, curriculum, assessments, and lessons.
- Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports, in compliance with state and federal regulations.
- Cultivate staff to effectively deliver daily learning to drive student mastery.
- Develop and deliver systems and processes to monitor student learning and teacher development.
- Support staff to regularly collect and analyze student learning data in order to adjust instruction.
- Observe and coach campus-based instructional leaders (Assistant Principals of Instruction, Grade level chairs, department chairs, etc) to ensure they are providing high-impact feedback to teachers.
- Create and leverage mechanisms for teacher collaboration within and across grade levels and departments.
- Lead whole-school professional learning to drive improvements in teacher practice.
- Continuously engage in learning related to content, pedagogy, and instructional methods.
- Foster a Joyful School Culture
- Partner with your Assistant Principal of Operations and the state-wide school operations department to design and implement a plan to cultivate, register, enroll, and onboard New to KIPP families.
- Provide a college-going, joyful environment where students experience connection and rigorous learning.
- Maintain student enrollment to meet and exceed student enrollment targets.
- Establish and implement school-wide systems to support strong daily attendance and partner with students, staff, and families to support and mitigate situations related to chronic absenteeism.
- Leverage school-wide systems to develop a positive learning culture and establish strong rapport between staff and students and students and students.
- Partner with students, teachers, administrators, and families to address breeches to school culture.
Benefits
- Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
- Paid family leave.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits.
- High deductible health plan with HSA also offered.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).
- 457 Roth retirement plan option with KIPP matching contribution up to $1,200 a year.
- 403b plans also supported.
- Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.
- Legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.
