KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose —college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. 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 communities.

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

• 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:

Principal-in-Residence (PIR) Program

• Oversee and lead the key components of the PIR program including skill development on a roadmap, evaluation using readiness assessments and and data tracking.  
• Coach & Develop PIRs
• Holds the PIR accountable to progression on Development Roadmap of skills aligned to School Leader readiness.
• Provides direct coaching to the PIR to include bi-weekly check-ins and bi-weekly observations of the PIR in practice
• Provides the vision for PIR formal professional development; may lead some professional development content
• Directly coach each PIR including bi-weekly observations and check-ins and provide additional support to PIRs transitioning into school leadership in the subsequent months.  
• Evaluates the PIR against performance benchmarks
• Lead support for mentor school leaders who manage PIRs.
• Progress-monitors Mentor School Leader assessment of skills
• Develops and leads monthly Mentor School Leader half-day learning sessions to norm on skills, prepare for upcoming assessments, and develop Mentor School Leader skills
• Develops and sends monthly Mentor School Leader Round-Up to drive accountability, action, and sharing of best practices 
• Lead the change management effort involved in roll out of the new program including: reflection, assessment, and adjustments for improvement.
• Manage and facilitate communication with stakeholders across the organization who are involved in the development of individual PIRs.
• Develops and sends monthly PIR round-ups to drive accountability, action and sharing of best practices

Support Overall KTX Vision for AP Development 

• Collaborate with team of Directors of Leader Development to drive KIPP Texas approach to instructional leader development 
• Support summer development opportunity for all instructional leaders
• Support design and implementation of KIPP Texas wide Performance Engagement Process 
• Lead ongoing cohort-building opportunities, regular communication and other program facets.   

Other

• Collaborate with other regional teams to design and coordinate professional development and support for both PIRs and instructional leaders. 
• Collaborate with other regional leaders to design and strengthen development pipelines across KIPP TX and ensuring alignment between them.
• Depending on the scope and capacity of the team, may lead other leadership development initiatives such as launching a teacher leader cohort, providing development for deans, etc.

• 10+ years of work experience in education and/or talent development with demonstrated record of results 
• 3+ years of school leadership experience – ideally as a principal and/or principal manager- with outstanding results
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Deep commitment to racial and educational equity and the building of an organization that reflects the community KIPP TX serves; ability to hold self and others accountable for centering equity
• Possesses a deep commitment to both racial and educational equity; supports the building of an organization that reflects the community KIPP serves; holds self and others on team accountable for centering equity
• Examines the impact of his/her identities, biases, assumptions, and behaviors on his/her power and privilege, interactions with others, work and leadership in the organization; able to recognize, immediately respond, and consistently remedy interpersonal and systemic bias and inequities
• Demonstrated excellence in school leadership, including instructional coaching, leading professional development, and developing other leaders
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change, executing on major initiatives, and leading cross-departmental work
• Excellent relationship builder with demonstrated experience managing diverse stakeholders, leading change, and mobilizing others and creating champions to support an organizational mission
• Demonstrated achievement in partnership development, including an ability to mobilize people and create champions to support an organizational mission
• Ability to analyze and use qualitative and quantitative data on a regular basis to drive decision making; strong judgment

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.