Assistant Principal of Instruction (23-24)
Company: KIPP Texas
Location: Dallas
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
Company DescriptionKIPP 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.Job DescriptionEvery member of the Team &
Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in
ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the
paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are
passionate advocates for their students and their families, working
tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity.
In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and
celebrate our differences across several characteristics that
construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We
are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals
who share the life experiences of our students because we believe
the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of
our families and KIPPsters.The Assistant Principal's job is to
support the school in driving academic and character outcomes for
students as a key member of the school's leadership team. Assistant
Principals are expected to lead both instruction and school culture
while also developing leadership in the school's emerging leaders.
Our Assistant Principals aim to spend 75% of their time on
instructional leadership. They commit to establishing
high-achieving schools that are diverse, equitable, and partnered
strongly with the communities they serve. At KIPP, we believe that
the Assistant Principal is a future School Leader and is therefore
actively being developed for school leadership. The Assistant
Principal should consider him/herself to be an apprentice to the
School Leader and gradually build capacity to lead a KIPP
school.
- Model and support implementation of the school's vision and
goals
- Support the development of the School Leader's school-wide
vision and take an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers
to achieve the collective goals of the school
- Own the implementation of select school priorities in support
of the school-wide vision
- With guidance from the School Leader, lead the planning and
goal setting for the grades/departments that s/he coaches and
ensure alignment with school-wide vision and goals
- Monitor progress towards goals utilizing campus and regional
enabling systems
- Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritize time to
accomplish goals
- Provide input into the strategic planning of the school, and
identify areas of ownership for self and direct reports
- Effectively plan to meet goals through prioritization,
establishing enabling systems, and managing time effectively - and
coach others to do the same
- Develop emerging leaders with School Leader's guidance
- Support the School Leader in identifying and developing
emerging teacher leaders (Content Team Leaders and/or Grade Level
Chairs) through goal setting, coaching, and providing feedback
- Model strong staff and student culture and manage school-wide
character development and behavior management system
- Support teachers in understanding processes and roles in
student support and intervention; develop systems and structures to
ensure that limited time is spent on reactive student
discipline
- Build relationships with parents to promote a collaborative
approach to supporting students' academic, social, and emotional
development
- Promote strong culture through the management of parts of the
daily school operations (e.g. arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess,
school trips, extra-curricular school activities, school events,
facility maintenance)
- Act as the first Leadership Team contact on student
intervention and parent engagement; determine next steps for issues
that rise above the teacher/grade level/department
- May manage and/or support Grade Level Chairs in their role
- Collaborate with School Leader to hire diverse,
highly-effective teachers and school staff
- Retain the highest performers across among teachers
managed
- Engage in the regional hiring process in collaboration with
School Leader to ensure campus has a strong and well-developed
talent pipeline
- Build own and direct reports' instructional knowledge of
standards, content and instructional methods.
- Content (Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment):
- Develop deep mastery of the academic standards in the
subjects/grades for which s/he coaches, and strong understanding of
academic standards for all subjects/grades. Understand the
implications of standards on what a student should know and be able
to do and connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their
content knowledge
- Drive partnership with student support team to ensure that all
students, including those with exceptionalities, have the access
and support needed to achieve mastery
- Support the coordination and implementation of school-wide
assessments
- Support and monitor strong Data Driven Instructional practices
and structures to progress monitor achievement towards campus and
regional goals
- Teach teachers how to assess for both student mastery and
growth towards college readiness and insist that assessments are
used to inform teacher instruction
- Study curriculum and assessment content and further develop
understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what
is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery on
assessments
- Research-based Instructional Practices (Methods and Time):
- Develop own and teacher's knowledge of best practices in
instructional methods and teach teachers how to match particular
strategies to students' needs
- Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high-quality
instruction and support School Leader in planning for and
implementing enabling systems
- Data Analysis (Data-driven Instruction and Progress
Monitoring):
- Lead Data Driven Instruction: Help teachers determine how data
aligns to end-of-year goals (what is being assessed and how it maps
to standards); break-out data to analyze how different student
groups are performing; determine what data is saying about areas of
student mastery and growth; and identify specific instructional
actions and adjustments to meet students' needs
- Take ownership of the academic outcomes in classrooms assigned
to coach/manage
- May coach and evaluate teachers in alignment with regional
Teacher Career Pathways initiatives
- Teacher Instructional Development (Instructional Coaching,
Content Teams, and Workshops):
- Provide high-quality instructional coaching with frequent and
scheduled teacher observations, actionable and bite-sized feedback,
and accountability for adjustment in practice
- May lead or coach others who lead
department/content/grade-level meetings that focus on planning for
and norming on instruction and culture, practicing instructional
strategies, and progress monitoring the department/content/grade
level
- Work in partnership with Regional Academics Team, Achievement
Specialists and Beyond Z Academics Team to ensure strong support
and monitoring for curriculum implementation and content
development
- Recommend to the School Leader what school-wide professional
development will be the highest leverage in improving student
results; lead engaging, actionable, adult-learning professional
development; and hold staff accountable for implementation of
professional development outcomes KIPP Texas Leadership
Competencies Student Focus: Belief that all students, regardless of
background, have the ability to develop the skills and confidence
to pursue the path they choose - college, career, and beyond;
demonstrated commitment to the school's unique communityDirection
Setting:Ability to set direction for a team and motivate others to
actionAchievement Orientation and Performance
Management:Demonstrated student achievement results in own
classroom and from teachers that s/he managesEquity-Centered
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments
that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and
perspectivesInstructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis;
ability to extract meaningful insights across school-wide
dataExpertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state
assessments require of students' knowledge and skills to
demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements
into instructional plans and strategiesDeep understanding of
appropriate application and differentiation of high-leverage
instructional strategies based on comprehension of child/adolescent
development and pedagogyRelationship Building: Expertise in
cultivating relationships and managing a diverse group of
stakeholdersAchievement Orientation: Demonstrated resilience and
focus on student outcomesQualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or
university (required)
- At least 2 years of teaching experience (required)
- Strong record of ensuring students achieve academic success and
holistic growth (required)
- Experience working in historically educationally underserved
communities and communities of color (preferred)
- Previous school-level leadership experience
(preferred)Additional InformationCompensationAs a full time KIPP
Texas employee you are eligible to participate in all KIPP Texas'
benefit plans. KIPP Texas offers a robust variety of benefits
choices, including medical, dental, and vision options, as well as
life insurance, fertility, and disability plans starting as low as
$25/month.KIPP provides equal employment opportunity for all
applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire
without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national
origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran
status or disability.
Keywords: KIPP Texas, Dallas , Assistant Principal of Instruction (23-24), Education / Teaching , Dallas, Texas
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