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

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP plays a critical role in ensuring our scholars are on the path to get to and through college. The Dean of Students assumes primary responsibility for the culture of the school, facilitating the development of student character and ensuring a positive and structured environment that creates the conditions for accelerated learning.  This position requires an organized and consistent educator with a concrete vision of excellence, the ability to build outstanding relationships with stakeholders, and a talent for inspiring children to high expectations

As a KIPP OKC Dean of Students, your core responsibilities include:
 

Establishing, Maintaining, and Celebrating a Culture Rooted in Relationships

• Lead school wide efforts in developing a restorative culture rooted in student achievement through family engagement
• Assisting teachers, scholars, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans.
• Observing implementation of individual behavior plans for consistency and adjustments as needed.
• As needed, work directly with students in individual and small group settings with direct instruction on social skills and social emotional development
• Work closely and effectively with children who have/are experiencing trauma resulting in behavior challenges. Engage their families, along with mental health professionals, to partner with behavioral health organizations and support services to execute individual individualized behavior interventions when needed.
• Coordinating re-entry meetings with school staff and families of KIPPsters who have been suspended
• Attend and lead professional development on discipline policies and practices with our staff.
• Serve as an advocate for core groups of KIPPsters to engage families and teachers effectively and meaningfully to support student success.
• Keeping accurate student discipline records, documenting all incident reports, conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior. 
• Communicate with families regarding attendance issues and truancy intervention. 
• Following KIPP OKC policies, determine in and out of school consequences
• Provide crisis intervention counseling as needed
• Make recommendations for BNA, ISS, and OSS.
• Maintain necessary documentation of discipline including Dean’s List
• Do whatever is assigned by School Leader and Assistant School Leaders which include duties, tasks and any other assignments that will assist the school to further the mission

Establishing, Maintaining, and Celebrating a School Wide Culture and Climate Where Kids Can Be Their Best

• Own the school’s character development program and ensure it builds and reinforces positive self-identity and necessary character strengths
• Partner with parents and families to build an authentic school-wide community
• Lead recognition assemblies, parent academies, community meetings and other school-wide culture building activities
• Facilitate staff trainings on student-teacher relationships, classroom management, parent partnership and school culture
• Coordinate school wide character education programs
• Coordinate weekly celebration
• Work to build student culture and incentives
• Setting school wide culture goals, including parent engagement, designing systems to meet goals, tracking progress to goals, and designing celebrations and recognition.

Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university
• Valid Oklahoma Teaching Certificate with required certification for subject and level assigned*
• Demonstrated knowledge of core subject area assigned
• Satisfactory outcome of a background check. Employees are responsible for a non-refundable fingerprinting fee (approximately $65.00).

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

Compensation and Benefits:

This is a Full-Time, 12-month position.  $50,000 annual salary.

Work hours are Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 5pm with some evening and weekend events (Parent Teacher Conferences, Literacy Nights, Student Programs, PTSO Meetings, etc)

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.