Organizational Overview

In 2020, KIPP Eastern North Carolina (KIPP ENC) and KIPP Charlotte took the first steps to begin to merge to form KIPP North Carolina Public Schools (KIPP NC). Starting in July of 2021, KIPP NC will be a network of eight high-performing, college-preparatory public charter schools providing an academically rigorous and joyous school experience to more than 3,500 students in grades K-12 in Charlotte, Durham, Gaston, and Halifax. Additionally, KIPP NC will support several thousand alumni on their journey to and through high school, college, and career.   

KIPP NC will build on a rich tradition of academic excellence and relentless fight for social justice present from the founding of both KIPP ENC and KIPP Charlotte. KIPP ENC is the second oldest KIPP region in the nation. In its 20 years of operation, KIPP ENC has been a cornerstone for students and families in rural Gaston and Halifax, operating two primary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. Over the past five years, it grew to serve even more students by opening up a middle school in Durham, an urban center in the center part of the state. KIPP Charlotte, which grew out of the strong traditions and academics of KIPP ENC, has supported students and families for the past 13 years, operating one primary school and one middle school in the largest city in North Carolina.

KIPP North Carolina will build upon the successes and experiences of KIPP ENC and KIPP Charlotte to provide inclusive school environments and an educational program that will enable our students to lead full lives and equip graduates to be future leaders and agents of change in North Carolina and beyond. KIPP NC also will continue to engage in direct, anti-racist work, and it will contribute meaningfully to the dismantling of structures of inequality within our organization, schools, and classrooms. KIPP NC will be committed to expanding our efforts to embed anti-racism in all of our activities and engagements within our classrooms and schools, across our organization, and throughout the State of North Carolina. All of this will be in a tireless effort to create classrooms that are homeplaces for our students, places where they feel safe, loved, validated, seen, and heard, places where all their beautiful identities will be affirmed and celebrated, and places where they will learn the academic knowledge and skills needed for college, career, and beyond.

The Opportunity

The MTSS Coordinator will provide instructional leadership in curriculum, assessment, and professional development for all K-8 schools in North Carolina. The MTSS Coordinator will report directly to the Director of Student Support Services, and they will drive achievement for students requiring interventions through MTSS. Over the next three years, the MTSS Coordinator will work in collaboration with schools and Central Office colleagues to design and implement high priority Reading, Math, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) interventions in K-8 schools across KIPP NC. In year one, the MTSS Coordinator's main priority will be to serve as KIPP NC’s project manager for the three-year HillRAP Intervention partnership, partnering with the Hill Learning Center to support KIPP NC’s HillRAP interventionists and help ensure implementation fidelity and student success. In years two and three, the role will expand to include development and implementation of intensive math and SEL interventions. (Note: At the moment, this is a position funded by a federal grant for three years. After the third year, this position will be re-evaluated to determine its continuation with KIPP NC.)

This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary instructional leader looking to play a critical role in building and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting students to graduate college and succeed in school and life.

About HillRAP and Hill Learning Center 

Hill Learning Center (Hill) is a K-12 learning hub located in Durham, North Carolina, that provides research-based, differentiated instruction and support for students with learning and attention challenges. It offers an array of programs for students and professional learning opportunities for educators. The Hill Reading Achievement Program (HillRAP) is a small-group (4:1) individualized reading intervention delivered by teachers and supported by technology and quality professional development. HillRAP has proven to close foundational gaps for students with persistent reading difficulties. KIPP NC will partner with Hill to provide intensive literacy intervention to identified students through a rigorous, three-year HillRAP partnership. HillRAP Interventionists will implement HillRAP at KIPP NC schools.

HillRAP Interventionists will be trained in HillRAP and multi-sensory, structured language instruction. They will be provided follow-up implementation support, mentoring, and coaching. Interventionists successfully completing the professional development program and demonstrating competent and consistent implementation will receive Level I Instructor certification accredited by IMSLEC and IDA. HillRAP is delivered on teacher and student iPads, and it utilizes Hill’s technology-enabled Hill Learning System to facilitate a scalable, flexible, data-driven approach to better serve students, teachers, and schools.

Key Responsibilities

Team Development

• Helps to build a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects the core values of KIPP NC
• In years one-three, works in partnership with the Hill Learning Center and school leadership teams to ensure excellent implementation of the HillRAP reading intervention program across K-8 schools. 
• In years two and three, collaborates with the Director of Student Support Services, Curriculum & Instruction Team and school-based teams to provide exceptional instructional models for math and SEL intervention.
• In years one-three, with instructional team colleagues and KIPP NC’s Hill Learning Center partners, helps plan and implement professional development for principals, assistant principals, and teachers

 Curricula and Assessment Strategy, Alignment, and Implementation

• Manages statewide implementation of HillRAP Intensive Reading Intervention, including:
  • Supporting HillRAP Interventionists who will deliver HillRAP literacy interventions to identified students, including helping to manage student selection, assisting with scheduling professional development and intervention time, securing space, monitoring implementation (number and length of sessions), securing supplemental resources, and helping surface and troubleshoot any barriers to successful implementation and student growth
  • Collaborating closely with school leadership teams and other school stakeholders to develop effective systems for scheduling, progress monitoring, family communication, assessment, and referral to Special Education for students participating in HillRAP
  • Partnering closely with the Hill Project Manager/Mentor to effectively support HillRAP Interventionists; develop and execute professional development and implementation plans; gather, analyze, and make informed decisions based on HillRAP and other assessment data; and generally ensure the overall success of the project and partnership
  • Completing comprehensive professional development in literacy instruction through the Hill Learning Center, including:
    • Online courses in Science of Reading and Structured Literacy
    • HillRAP, HillWrite, and Hill Learning System Training
    • Participation in PLCs for HillRAP Implementers and for Administrators led by a Hill Learning Center mentor
• In years two and three, manages comprehensive MTSS implementation statewide, including: 
  • Working in collaboration with schools to build world class curricular and assessment strategies for targeted and intensive interventions designed to prepare all students for and measure all student progress towards college readiness
  • Developing a vision for MTSS to increase student outcomes and improve teacher practice; collaborates with Central Office colleagues to create a scaffolded, integrated MTSS across KIPP NC
  • Ensuring that intervention curriculum and instruction aspire to the vision of excellent instruction across KIPP NC; invests leaders, teachers, students, and families in KIPP NC’s intervention curricula and creates ambitious implementation plans for student success
  • Drawing on content knowledge and understanding of effective instructional practices to design and revise instructional documents and continually evaluate curricula implementation within MTSS framework
  • Helping design and manage major curricula changes that will improve quality of intervention instruction; develops scope and sequences, pacing calendars, data reflection days, and all other enabling systems required for faithful MTSS implementation
  • Developing and designing a cohesive assessment and progress monitoring strategy that accurately measures key knowledge and skills
  • Collaborating with the Director of Data & Assessment and our Hill Learning Center partners to create and manage a system for sharing and analyzing assessment and progress monitoring data results within MTSS
  • Supporting school-based leaders in continually evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention program overall based on our existing data systems

Providing targeted coaching and professional development experiences to school leaders to support content knowledge development and curricula implementation and innovation

Qualifications

KIPP NC’s MTSS Coordinator candidates will have the following:

• A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students
• An unwavering commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion
• A strong desire to collaborate with school leaders, Central Office teammates and Hill Learning Center partners in service to a new KIPP region growing out of two exceptionally strong ones
• 5+ years of experience as an exemplary K-8 Reading teacher with strong student achievement results + exemplary teacher coaching and adult management experience in a high performing school serving a similar student population to KIPP North Carolina
• Strong command of the essentials of the Science of Reading and understanding of all the necessary components of a solid literacy program, HillRAP training and experience a plus
• An understanding of the specific, unique characteristics of public charter schools, NC-specific knowledge a plus
• Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable
• Outstanding problem solving abilities with the ability to think flexibly and collaboratively about complex instructional programming
• Strong data analysis skills with the ability to use data from assessment, implementation and progress monitoring to drive decisions, inform instruction and support student success. 
• An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization
• The flexibility needed to accommodate the breadth and depth of responsibilities and priorities
• Outstanding written, speaking, and organizational skills including excellence in backwards planning long-term goals and accountability and progress monitoring systems
• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
• Possess a deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from low-income communities; experience working within predominantly Black, Brown, and/or low-income communities
• Understanding and willingness to work in both rural and urban communities, including exhibiting resourcefulness and willingness to travel up to five hours within North Carolina multiple days per week based on need
• Must live in North Carolina; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, ideal, given the area’s equal distance from our schools in Charlotte, Gaston, and Halifax

Salary is based on years of experience, degree of education, and level of expertise.  A competitive benefits package is offered. 

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

KIPP North Carolina does not and shall not discriminate on the race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, disability, source of income, or status as a veteran in any of its activities or operations.