Deputy Chief, Professional Learning

Company Description

About KIPP Texas

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 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 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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Role

KIPP Texas is seeking a Deputy Chief of Professional Learning under the direction of the Chief Academic Officer (CAO). As a transformational leader at KIPP Texas, the Deputy Chief of Professional Learning will spearhead innovative strategies to empower educators and leaders, directly shaping student success and fostering a pipeline of exceptional talent to sustain our mission. The Deputy Chief of Professional Learning is responsible for creating and managing a comprehensive professional learning plan aligned with district goals, including curriculum development, instructional strategies, leadership development, assessment practices, and new technologies. 

As the Deputy Chief of Professional Learning, you will be accountable to the 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 90/60/30 on Reading STAAR
• KTX earn 90/60/30 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
• 80% of Staff Retained 

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and People Management

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team responsible for the execution of all professional learning initiatives, fostering collaboration and accountability across regions.
• Design and promote a train-the-trainer model to build site leadership capacity for coaching and delivering impactful professional learning, including lesson internalization, practice clinics, and implementation support.

Teacher and Leader Professional Learning

• Develop and implement an innovative, comprehensive vision for professional learning as an integral part of the broader talent development cycle, ensuring alignment with KIPP Texas’s academic and cultural goals. 
• Create and facilitate professional learning plans aligned to the academic vision and strategy.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate a robust Summer Professional Learning Institute, ensuring alignment with academic goals and providing actionable follow-up coaching to support classroom implementation.
• Foster a culture of ongoing professional growth by providing opportunities for teachers to share best practices, lead peer-to-peer learning, and participate in collaborative inquiry.
• Establish frameworks for professional development that are directly tied to succession planning, instructional excellence, and leadership readiness across regional and school-based roles.

Regional Leadership Pipeline Management and Professional Learning

• Support a healthy regional leadership pipeline by developing school management systems level leaders.
• Create a vision and strategy for school leader manager, school leader and assistant principal professional learning aligned to the One KIPP Leader Competency Model and Rubric, Academic Strategy, and Student Culture Playbook.
• Create and facilitate professional learning for administrators that is aligned to the organization strategy and and long term academic and culture goals.
• Champion site and regional succession planning efforts, designing leadership pipelines that strengthen school, regional, and inter-regional capacity for sustainable talent development.
• Manage Principal-in-Residence (PIR) programming cultivating a strong internal school leadership pipeline.