KIPP Texas Public Schools is a nonprofit public charter school network, dedicated to preparing students in educationally underserved communities for college success and choice-filled lives. Today, KIPP Texas operates 59 public charter schools educating over 31,100 students across four regions – Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools are part of the free public school system and enrollment is open to all students. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income families.

You can see all our job opportunities at https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/.

The Opportunity

KIPP Texas is looking for a dynamic, committed and flexible Education Diagnostician to join our Student Support Services Team. We are looking for a highly dedicated Education Diagnostician who will bring a “whatever it takes” attitude to helping children succeed. The Education Diagnostician is responsible for designing effective, high-quality, interventions that are data-driven. KIPP staff approach work with a sense of possibility and see challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving. KIPP gives its students an intensive foundation in the core academic subjects with an emphasis on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for success in school and in life.  The KIPP community holds itself to high standards, cognizant that success can be achieved by all, regardless of challenging circumstances, through teamwork, tenacity and focused dedication.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates positive, collaborative problem-solving orientation with students, parents and guardians, educators, administrators, community members, and colleagues.

• Provides core services including: prevention, consultation, intervention, and assessment. Services include, but are not limited to, conducting observations, collecting data, reviewing student records, conferring with teachers and parents, interviewing students, conducting functional assessments, and planning behavior interventions. These core services are adapted to the particular needs of each student, situation, and setting.

• Helps all stakeholders understand child development and how it affects student performance academically and social/emotionally.

• Serves in a consultative role with designated personnel to offer prevention and intervention strategies related to learning and behavioral problems of students; and provides consultation on an on-going basis to teachers, parents, and other school personnel to resolve students’ learning and behavioral problems.

• Routinely gathers evidence of positive outcomes resulting from psychological services delivered to students, school personnel, and parents.

• Fulfills mandates of federal and state law and the expectations of the school system leadership

• Provides oversight to social workers and supports them in writing functional behavior assessments, developing behavior interventions plans, and tracking student responses to the behavior interventions.

• Receives and reviews available developmental information from school and outside resources about student behavior(s) and selects evidence-supported or evidence-based psychological interventions.

• Accurately administers, scores, and interprets psychological measures of intelligence, personality, behavior, achievement, adaptive functioning, and developmental maturity.

• Ability to write clear, excellent, Bulletin 1508-compliant Psychoeducational evaluations.

• Delivers crisis response and intervention services to students, families and staff, when needed.

• Participates in mediations, administrative reviews, hearings and due process proceedings, as needed.

• Participates in disciplinary proceedings: expulsions, manifestations, and causation meetings.

• Participates in IEP meetings to communicate the results of psychological assessments to members of the team in parent friendly language.

• Able to work flexibly across more than one school site.

Skills and Qualifications

• Masters in Special Education with Educational Diagnostician Certification

• Possess and/or eligible for state certification as an education diagnostician in Texas or just need internship hours in order to complete certification

• ​Commitment to working with underserved students (Required)

Compensation and Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas’ competitive benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600 employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.