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

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define excellence for the Assistant School Leader of Academics role in KIPP: TX
• Drive this excellence through a theory of development, addressing knowledge, skills, and mindsets
• Differentiate this approach based on sub-categories of ASLAs, including novice, developing, and masterful ASLAs
• Using a gradual release model of development, onboard new-to-role ASLAs
• Ensure equity and a commitment to exploring race, class, bias are active part of all development

Key Responsibilities

• Project manage and lead the work to determine the best path forward to AP Development across KIPP TX
• Explore and project manage alternative development trajectories to current models (for SLs, APs)
• Expand, combine, differentiate current programs
• Define role of the AP and name how people learn all the parts (eg. management, instructional leadership, team leadership, self operating, etc)
• Design and manage the required onboarding of New-to-KIPP instructional-leader staff  (manage the recommended scope and sequence for ‘new to role’ coaches, to be instituted over multi-year integration)
• Onboarding and through first year
• Some of this will be working with KIPP Foundation and Reg Sups re; Instructional Bootcamp, external partnerships, etc.
• Develop a theory of action for building the Assistant Principal/Assistant School Leader bench depth
• Create plan/tools/resources to support regions to develop internal talent into instructional leaders
• Manage systems that support and operationalize instructional coaching
• Ensure high-impact implementation and management of Whetstone in partnership with other teams
• Ensure all teachers and leaders have access to high quality training and clear expectations for use
• Partner closely with KIPP Foundation and other external development partners to drive aligned training model for instructional leaders

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Demonstrated excellence in Instructional Power Moves
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change, executing on major initiatives, and leading cross-departmental work
• Demonstrated excellence in leading professional development
• Demonstrated orientation to developing leaders
• Demonstrated achievement in partnership development, including an ability to mobilize people and create champions to support an organizational mission
• Evidence of developing and executing against a strategy with strong results
• School leadership and management experience preferred

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.