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/.

The Opportunity

Achievement Specialists have the opportunity to play a significant role in ensuring that our instructional vision is lived inside of our classrooms and schools by supporting school leadership teams with program implementation, instructional coaching, aligned data analysis practices and aligned development opportunities.  Additionally, Achievement Specialists provide intensive support for struggling campuses within their specific content areas and school portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Increase student achievement across the region and assist schools in obtaining their goals for literacy and social studies growth and achievement 
• Know the achievement across the region in the assigned content area and at priority campuses and can speak to the region-wide/campus level response to the data
• Proactively analyze portfolio data, develop appropriate action plans, and communicate with the appropriate individuals using data to drive decisions and action at the campus and regional level
• Observe classrooms regularly and provide clear, actionable feedback to the shared leader 
• Provide feedback to the shared leader that improves teacher practice and student achievement by: developing and maintaining positive working relationships with leaders, leveraging the strengths of the school and the systems in place and providing high leverage action steps 
• Work side-by-side to develop content knowledge and coaching skill of assistant principals 
• Provide high quality, effective professional development to drive improvement in teacher effectiveness and student outcome
• Collaborate with KIPP Texas curriculum writers and achievement specialists to adapt curriculum as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree (required), master’s degree (preferred) 
• Experience in coaching teachers (Assistant School Leader or Instructional Coach)(required) 
• Four or more years of teaching experience in English Language Arts (required); 7 or more years preferred 
• Expert knowledge of English Language Arts curriculum as it relates to content, courses, standards alignment, and assessments; experience writing or editing curriculum highly preferred 
• Strong ability to coach others towards improvement regardless of reporting relationship 
• Well-developed communication and problem solving skills 
• Achieved significant academic gains as a teacher in his or her own right 
• Experience developing and leading professional development 
• Experience in analyzing data and using results to ensure increased student mastery; 
• Strong knowledge of pedagogical practices to ensure high level engagement

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.