Contingent Classroom Facilitator (Substitute Teacher)

  • Full-time
  • Start Date: Next year opening
  • Department: School-based Support

Company Description

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/.

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Contingent Classroom Facilitator position is a full-time position. This position is essential to the rhythm of our schools and students' classroom experience. The ideal Interim Guest Teacher should enjoy driving student instruction and classroom engagement in the absence of a long term or certified teacher. We believe our little KIPPsters deserve the best classroom experience and this position will assist us in filling any academic gaps in the interim of a teacher or long term classroom vacancy. KIPP Texas is committed to assisting in the training and development of any interim guest teacher and will offer coaching cycles that will address areas of assistance needed during your time serving our students. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintaining as fully as possible the established routines and procedures of the school and classrooms to which you are assigned
  • Facilitation of daily classroom “Do Now” and “Exit Tickets”
  • Executing daily academic facilitation of  classroom lessons plans  in alignment with the schools curriculum during the duration of the assignment 
  • Interim Teachers are required to attend all school level Professional development/ Weekly Meetings. 
  • Assuming responsibility for overseeing student safety and behavior in class and at other times during the school day as requested
  • Maintaining appropriate student behavior at all times throughout the school day for assigned students
  • Contingent Classroom Facilitator may be required to record grades, complete lesson plans, tests etc per the assigned campus administrator request. 
  • Attendance is essential for compliance purposes, Interim teachers are required to record student attendance daily. 
  • Willing to offer support to and receive constructive feedback from teachers and administrators in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to change and improvement
  • Utilizing the practices and procedures in the Contingent Classroom Facilitator  Handbook distributed annually by KIPP Texas Public Schools
  • Treating information about students and staff with the utmost confidence and confidentiality
  • Ability to commute to schools within a 15 mile radius of your assigned base location for critical sub needs and a willingness to commute beyond in extreme circumstances
  • Exhibits flexibility regarding any changes to daily assignments in order to support the immediate needs of the school (Example; Hall Monitoring, clerical, lunch room duty, after school duty etc…) 

Reports to assigned base locations daily on time. Contingent Classroom Facilitators cannot be late to their assigned duty more than 5 times for the fiscal school year.

Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

  • 60+ credit hours from an accredited college or university required, Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Experience working with children in an educational setting (student teaching, after school program, etc.), min. 1 plus year required
  • Valid or progress towards a Texas teaching certificate in a core subject, preferred

Competencies

  • Unwavering commitment to KIPP Texas’s mission, students, families, and community
  • Strong record of helping students achieve academic success, primarily with students in educationally underserved communities
  • Strong desire to teach an academically intense curriculum and commit to an extended school day, week, and year
  • Desire to continuously learn and increase effectiveness as a teacher and professional; offer and receive constructive feedback
  • Willingness to be flexible and to go above and beyond to meet the needs of KIPP Texas students

Physical Requirements: 

  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
  • Considerable time is spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
  • Attending conferences or training sessions

Additional Information

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. 

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