Deputy Regional Superintendent - Transformation

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 32,000 students across Austin, Dallas, 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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values-driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

Transformation School Leader Managers play a critical role in advancing KIPP Texas mission to create joyful, academically excellent schools. As a Transformation School Leader Manager you will provide strategic support and accountability to a cohort of KIPP Texas transformation schools to rapidly improve student achievement outcomes. The Transformation School Leader Manager is responsible for oversight of the implementation of KIPP TX programmatic oversight and ensuring high-quality supervision of the school improvement process at assigned schools. Through maintaining a laser-focus on excellence, fairness, and rapid improvement, the Transformation School Leader Manager develops and manages a cohort of transformation school leaders, and serves as an integral member of the KIPP Texas transformation leadership team, which is responsible for driving the overall direction and strategy for KIPP TX’s transformation work. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced, dynamic systems-level turnaround leader to prove positive change in preparing students with the skills to pursue the paths they choose - with a particular focus on building a college-going culture. This position is a strong fit for senior-level educational leaders who have a proven track record of managing high-stakes school improvement efforts and developing instructional leadership capacity.

This leader must be adept at balancing collaboration with independent decision-making and be comfortable navigating ambiguity to achieve results. The Transformation School Leader Manager must be skilled in directive performance management structures, ensuring high expectations, clear accountability, and coaching leaders through difficult yet necessary conversations that drive change.

As a Transformation School Leader Manager you will be accountable to following organization wide goals:  

• 100% of KTX School achieve an A or B rating - TBD

• 95% of K-2 students reading on grade level DIBELS

• KTX earn 90/75/40 on Reading STAAR

• KTX earn 90/75/40 on Math STAAR

• 60% of seniors graduate having scored a 3+ on at least a AP/IB exam

• 40% of 11th grade students score 21+ on the ACT

• 80% of student matriculate to a 4-year college

• 97% Average Daily Attendance 

• 100% BOY Enrollment by Day 10

• 80% of Staff Retained 

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Lead KIPP TX’s School Leaders

• Manage, supervise, and evaluate a cohort of transformation school leaders (typically 3-5) to  improve schools and student achievement outcomes. 

• Own the development and implementation of professional learning for School Leaders and Assistant Principals of Instruction, ensuring alignment with rigorous academic and instructional priorities.

• Recognize when to engage in difficult conversations and execute them with skill to ensure sustained school improvement.

• Coordinate and implement high-impact actions to provide strategic assistance and remove barriers for transformation schools.

• Supports alignment of key resources to align with school improvement strategy and implementation plan.

• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to excellence, persistence, belongingness, teamwork, and joy.

• Communicate school improvement priorities to key stakeholders, including state-wide departments and schools, and ensure that staff are aligning to