Note: Our team has renewed our commitment to above market pay thanks to the support of Nashville's City Council, who recently approved the largest MNPS budget our city has seen. We are encouraged that it has been passed in its entirety and schools can be fully funded as we enter a critical year ahead. At KIPP Nashville, we know compensation is a critical factor in our teammates’ career choices - and we want this to be a place where people grow, develop, and spend many years teaching, leading, and supporting our KIPPsters.

KIPP Nashville is a network of high-performing public schools that has been committed to creating joyful, academically excellent schools in Nashville since 2005. KIPP Nashville is part of the acclaimed KIPP Network, which educates 100,000+ students nation-wide and supports students to college graduation through our KIPP Through College program.
 
KIPP Nashville currently operates 3 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 1 high school. 94% of our 2020 alumni graduated high school with acceptance to college and are projected to complete college at a rate 3x that of their peers. 86% of our students identify as Black or Latinx and 16% are identified as diverse learners. We are excited to continue our growth to ensure all students in Nashville have access to an excellent education.
 
Our mission is that, together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. If you share this belief, if you have a proven willingness to do what it takes for students to achieve, if you thrive in an environment that is both collaborative and entrepreneurial, then you are already a KIPPster.

Position Overview

KIPP Nashville seeks a highly dedicated school counselor who will bring a “whatever it takes” attitude to its founding team. The School Counselor will work directly with students and families to provide effective, high quality interventions that are data-driven. The Counselor will work directly with teachers to cultivate their knowledge of students’ social and emotional development. To ensure that we are meeting the social and emotional needs of all students and families we educate, our School Counselor will be a key driver of our schools’ student culture vision of creating safe, inclusive, and character building culture for every child. The School Counselor provides the following core services: prevention, intervention, assessment, and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities of the School Counselor include, but are not limited to:

Prevention

• Build relationships and collaborate with external education and social services professionals to develop appropriate agency services for students and families

• Participate in weekly intervention meetings to thought partner with teachers around social and emotional supports

• Facilitate workshops and other learning opportunities for families

• Conduct home visits that support families to meet KIPP Nashville College Prep Elementary expectations and increases student/family involvement

• Participate on school staff teams to develop policies and practices to proactively build school culture including opportunities for team-building and collaboration among students

• Help drive a school-wide atmosphere that suits the needs to our students, teachers, and families

• Facilitate professional development for teachers to help them understand child development and how it affects student performance academically and social/emotionally

Intervention

• Drive social and emotional intervention plans for our most high need students

• Run individual and group counseling sessions with research-based social and emotional practices

• Assist students, teachers, and families to develop solutions to family and community factors that influence students’ capacity or ability to learn

Assessment

• Complete high-quality progress notes for all students receiving counseling services weekly

• Conduct interviews with a student, family members, and KIPP staff members to gather information about each student’s social, emotional and behavioral needs; help all constituents integrate information to best meet the student’s needs

• Conduct observations to gather data in order to determine best options for interventions

Collaboration

• Create professional learning goals each year and implement feedback towards these goals

• Offer support to and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to growth and improvement

• Be available for open houses, parent-teacher conferences, and other events involving families outside of normal operating hours

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred

• At least two years of counseling experience (Preferred)

• Demonstrated passion for the mission, vision and values of KIPP Nashville; comfort and willingness to actively participate in the KIPP Nashville community

• Demonstrated success in building relationships and trust with leaders, teachers, students, parents and community

• Professional School Counselor license eligible

Salary is competitive, commensurate with experience, and includes benefits. This position is exempt and follows a 11-month administrative schedule. First year teachers with a bachelors degree start at $50,898, First year teachers with a masters & above start at $56,078.

Apply directly online. Please contact [email protected] with questions.

KIPP Nashville is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual preference, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, pregnancy, or veteran status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.