Director of Elementary Literacy

  • Full-time
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Subject: English Language Arts, Reading
  • Start Date: Next year opening
  • Department: Regional Support and Leadership

Company Description

Join the KIPP Team & Family

KIPP is hiring a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with the unyielding belief that every child will succeed.

KIPP Oklahoma is a part of a national network of free, open-enrollment, public charter schools offering a choice to families and children in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. We are driven and committed to our mission and vision.

KIPP Oklahoma currently educates over 1,000 students and supports hundreds of alumni. Today, the KIPP Oklahoma network consists of KIPP Tulsa Public Charter Schools (grades 5th – 12th) and KIPP OKC Public Schools (grades PreK, Kindergarten and 5th – 8th). KIPP OKC Public Schools is growing one grade per year until they are a full PreK – 8th grade program.  

Mission:

Together with families and communities, we 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.

Vision:

Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

We are a Team & Family

At KIPP, we see the gifts in everyone who walks through the doors of our schools. Especially our teachers. Their skill. Energy. Love. Their determination. On the good days and on the hard days. So we support our teachers to make the most of those gifts. It starts with respect – for our teacher’s innate talent and desire to learn, for their professional growth and the lives they lead beyond our walls.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE TEACHING AT KIPP

You’ll Work With A Team That Lives Its Values

Weather in a school-based or campus support role, our team is dedicated to living our values. Together, we work in schools and communities, not classrooms. We contribute to and are responsible for shared success. Like a family, we act with empathy and support one another to build strong relationships.

You’ll Be The Change

You’ll be part of a national network of 270 KIPP schools and 3 dedicated schools in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. We believe in the infinite potential of all people. Our hope, drive, and optimism fuel our daily work and drive us toward achieving a more equitable and just world, starting with our KIPP scholars.

You’ll Be Valued

Our teachers are well compensated and have the tools, training, and technology to bring innovation to the classroom.

You’ll Never Stop Learning

The joy of teaching is that there’s always more to learn. We support our teachers – from those in their 1st year to those in their 20th year – with individualized coaching, professional learning communities, leadership development programs, and extensive resource-sharing.

You’ll Have Fun!

Whether at a family movie night, a staff professional development with an impromptu choir and dance, or a gratitude celebration, we create and celebrate joyful moments with our students, their families, and each other. 

Job Description

 

Position Overview

The Director of Elementary Literacy (DEL) drives student outcomes in early literacy for KIPP Oklahoma. In partnership with the KIPP Oklahoma Academics teams, the DEL will own the design, management, and execution of the early literacy program, ensuring we are providing high-quality, anti-racist literacy instruction to our youngest KIPPsters.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Program Vision:

  • Owns program design, to include setting and monitoring progress towards program goals, creation of key program deliverables (curriculum implementation and coaching tools, formal professional development calendar, etc.)
  • Manages key program stakeholders through organizing meetings, designing and executing a communication strategy
  • In collaboration with regional academics team, supports significant and equitable student growth and outcomes in literacy 

 

Program Implementation:

  • Engage and invest stakeholders (teachers, school leaders, students, families) in the vision of high-quality literacy instruction
  • Ensure all students are assessed on a high-quality literacy screener at least three times per year
  • Leads implementation of a high-quality literacy curriculum, including all aspects of word recognition, language comprehension, and writing
  • Coaches school-based instructional leaders in curriculum implementation and data-driven instruction
  • Analyze regional data in partnership with Data Team, including examining data cut by and across groups to ensure that instruction is driving equitable outcomes
  • Create data-driven action plans that promote student achievement in word recognition, language comprehension, and writing
  • Observe instructional practices in schools to identify and address curriculum design and professional development strengths and gaps

 

Manages the development of all preK-2 or preK-4 literacy leaders and teachers by:

  • Designing and leading regional professional development, both baseline pedagogy and curriculum/assessment-specific training.
  • Designing structures and systems for school leaders and instructional coaches to support content knowledge development and curriculum implementation 
  • Leading monthly school walk-throughs and classroom observations with school and regional leadership teams.
  • Collaborate with school-based leaders and teachers to devise meaningful action steps that improve student outcomes

Qualifications

Skills & Qualifications

  • 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/their identities, biases, assumptions, and behaviors on his/her/their 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 instructional leadership, including instructional coaching, leading professional development, and student outcomes
  • Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change, executing on major initiatives, and leading cross- departmental work
  • Excellent relationship builder with proven 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

Additional Information

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

Compensation and Benefits:

This is a Full-Time, 12-month position.  

Employees are eligible to participate in employer benefits including health, dental, life, accidental death and dismemberment, short and long term disability and participation in Oklahoma Teacher Retirement plans.

As an equal opportunity employer, KIPP Oklahoma does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or any other basis made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws or regulations.

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