KIPP Texas Public Schools is hiring a School Leader to lead a team in building a school of academic excellence and joy. The School Leader will set ambitious school-wide vision and goals, lead a team of instructional and support staff, and prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals. The role requires a strong educational background, leadership experience, and a commitment to creating a positive learning culture.
Requirements
- Lead a team to successfully build a school of academic excellence and joy
- Set ambitious school-wide vision and goals
- Create and execute school-wide plans
- Champion KIPP TX core values
- Lead, coach, and develop a school leadership team
- Hire, supervise, coach, and retain instructional, and support staff
- 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
- Develop staff’s capacity to internalize high quality instructional materials
- Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports
- 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 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 Assistant Principal of Operations and 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 breaches to school culture
Benefits
- Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies
- Paid family leave
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 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
