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. 

Instructional Assistants help students to learn subject matter and/or skills that are required for scheduled lessons and provide meaningful instruction for assigned classrooms in the absence of the regular classroom teacher or in assistance of the classroom teacher.

Instruction

Key Responsibilities of the Instructional Assistant include:

Core responsibilities:

• Assisting teachers and grade-level teams in creating, maintaining, and improving exemplary classroom culture:
  • Consistently communicate the key messages: 1) This is important 2) You can do it with hard work 3) I will not give up on you 4) We will help each other
  • Provide real-time and specific affirming and adjusting feedback about academics and character to students
  • Ensure that goals, big and small, matter to students and their families
  • Implement a classroom behavior management plan with the goal of 100% of students meeting 100% of the expectations 100% of the time
  • React with speed and decisiveness when behavior does not meet expectations
  • Use a calm, firm, and convincing tone when addressing inappropriate behavior
  • Exude a love of teaching and learning through facial expressions, tone, and actions
• Assisting teachers and grade- level teams to ensure that each student meets their individual goals for growth and achievement:
  • Regularly track and communicate progress with students and their families
  • Deliver content in a well-organized, clear, accessible manner while highlighting key points
  • Notice and address student confusion 
  • Insist on all-the-way correct answers from students orally and in writing, providing the appropriate feedback to students who give partial answers or incorrect answers
  • Provide each student with timely, structured academic feedback – verbally and in writing
  • Assess students against each lesson’s learning objectives to inform teaching and remediation
• Assisting teachers and grade-level teams in providing a positive, safe school experience for every student, every day:
  • Substitute for Teachers or other Teaching Assistants on an as needed basis
  • Help plan for and lead students during off campus Field Lessons or Community Service Days on one Saturday each month
  • Ensure that classrooms are continuously maintained to be clean, organized, and inviting
  • Fulfill regular duties to aid with student arrival, dismissal, and the transition to after-school activities
  • Act upon a commitment to do “whatever it takes” to ensure that each student has a positive, safe school experience

Educational Equity and Inclusion

• Support KIPP Oklahoma’s vision for academic excellence and critical consciousness, so that our students have “access to pursue the path they choose.” 
• Engage with “love, faith, and humility” towards ALL members of our community.
• Regularly do the foundational work of learning and understanding the original dehumanization of students of color and how the laws and policies created through this process resulted in systemic racism for the purpose of white supremacy and the cultural rules and norms of white supremacy and anti-blackness.
• Commit to develop a working knowledge of internalized racism and how and why educated, intelligent and dynamic BIPOC may produce a fear response in both white and other BIPOC peoples and how to respond and support others if/when this phenomenon occurs.
• Work to ensure students, staff and families of all identity groups are full participants in decisions that shape the school or department.
• Commit to working with families as equals, co-educators, learners and decision makers.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Associate’s degree and/or 60 earned college hours 
• 2-3 years of professional experience working with children in an education or child-care setting
• Demonstrated success in raising the achievement levels of traditionally underserved students
• Humility
• Self-Awareness
• The ability to receive and act upon adjusting feedback
• Unwavering belief in and passion for the mission of KIPP Oklahoma Schools
• A commitment to continually developing the character strengths of grit, zest, optimism, self-control, social intelligence, gratitude, and curiosity in all students and one’s self

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

Compensation and Benefits:

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.