Regional Director of Academic Acceleration
Company: KIPP Texas
Location: Austin
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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.You can see all our job opportunities at
https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/ .Job DescriptionDuties and
Essential Job Functions:
- Monitor the quality, and impact of high dosage tutoring and
acceleration programming across a portfolio of schools
- Analyzes portfolio data on a cycle, action plans, and
communicates with the appropriate individuals using data to drive
decisions and actions at the campus and regional level
- Spends 75% of their time observing acceleration and tutoring
classrooms and provides clear, actionable feedback and support to
the school-based leaders and tutors and/or tutoring partners
- Observes and/or facilitates content team meetings, as requested
& provides feedback that leads to improvement of the content team
meetings
- Create a portfolio and school-specific plans to increase the
number of students who are at- or above-grade-level, including
exceptional cohorts, students with dyslexia, and English language
learners
- Partner with state and regional teams to build and drive a
regional academic strategy that ensures ALL students meet their
achievement goals in a learning environment that is joyful,
equitable, and academically excellent
- Communicate and invest shareholders in the vision and strategy
across a portfolio of schools to ensure that all instructional
staff, students, families, and other stakeholders know and
understand the vision for excellent instruction and
acceleration
- Collaborate with and support regional teams with executing on
Academic recovery acceleration strategy
- Ensure all tutors and tutoring partners are oriented to the
KIPP Texas Public School's approach to academic recovery
- Provides resources and/or training on scientifically based
strategies to schools for the purpose of identifying exceptional
students and for intervention in their academic progress
- Researches a variety of information (e.g. current practices,
instructional materials, methods, curriculum guidelines, etc.) for
the purpose of building school-based capacity in alignment to
achievement outcomes
- Participates in meetings, workshops and seminars for the
purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to
perform functions
- Performs other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of
ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit
Responsibilities
- Equity: Exhibits a commitment to equity through modeling of
equitable practices, and being a conscious disruptor of inequitable
practices both at the school and organizational levels;
- Instructional Expertise: Identifies effective practices in the
first teach and in acceleration classrooms, and understands
pedagogy that results in improved student learning outcomes;
- Data-driven: Uses multiple data sources to differentiate the
types of instructional supports and interventions needed for
individual students, specific student groups, schools, and across a
targeted group of schools;
- Achievement Focus: Sets challenging goals, demonstrating
persistence and overcoming obstacles to achieve goals without
confusing effort for results;
- Demonstrated ability to deal with sensitive and difficult
situations and information; in interpersonal problem-solving,
decision-making, and leadership skills; to communicate effectively,
both orally and in writing, and to manage and work with a team to
accomplish mission and goals. Ability to maintain confidentiality
with sensitive information. QualificationsKnowledge, Skills &
Abilities:
- Experience as a school or systems level instructional
leader
- Three or more years of teaching experience with proven
results
- Expert-level knowledge of curriculum as it relates to content,
courses, standards alignment, and assessments
- Strong ability to coach others towards improvement regardless
of reporting relationship
- Well-developed communication and problem-solving skills
- Experience developing and leading professional development
- Experience analyzing data and using results to increase student
mastery
- Advances equity and academic excellence for all students to
include students with disabilities
- Knows, effective instruction, strategic planning, and
developing a professional community of learners
- Experience in resource allocation for education programs, human
resources, physical/equipment resources, working with teachers,
curriculum specialists, principals on instructional/curricular
issues, program evaluations, integration of literacy, and
implementation of standards-based curriculum.
- Strong knowledge of pedagogical practices to ensure high levels
of engagement and academic mastery for students with low academic
performance
- Knowledge of school turn-around, leadership development as well
as instructional/curriculum theory and practiceRequired Education
and/or Experience:
- Bachelor's degree required from an accredited institution
- Experience as a school-based or systems-level leader with a
proven track record of student achievement results
- Must have experience in implementing highly effective systems
of acceleration in a school or across a system of schools Preferred
Education and/or Experience:
- Master's or other advanced degree preferred
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience leading
school turnaround work
- Any equivalent combination of education and experience that
meets the minimum requirementsAdditional InformationPhysical
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.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a
computer/laptop.
- Attending conferences or training sessions.Work Environment:
- Typical office environment with frequent interruptions.Travel
Requirements:
- Ability to travel to various locations, travel time
approximately 0% - 5%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. Funding:
The Regional Director of Academic Acceleration will be funded
directly from the Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief
(ESSER) grants awarded by the Texas Education Agency under the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (ESSER II) and the American
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ESSER III). This position will be funded
100% from the ESSER II and III allocation for administrative
expenses through September 30, 2023, and may continue to be funded
through September 30, 2024, depending upon the availability of
ESSER grant funds. At the end of the grant period, this position
may be eliminated unless other sources of funds are secured to
maintain this position or a similar position. The employee must
sign this job description acknowledging receipt of the job
description and signing their acknowledgment that this position is
grant-funded and is temporarily aligning with the terms of the
grant period.
Keywords: KIPP Texas, Austin , Regional Director of Academic Acceleration, Executive , Austin, Texas
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