Director of Professional Learning

Company Description

About KIPP Texas Public Schools 

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-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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. KIPP Texas is a team and family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in collaboration, academic success and joy.

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, nearly 15,000 educators, and 123,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Opportunity
 

The Director of Professional Learning & Talent Programs will lead and champion the vision for excellence in professional learning through quality design and execution of the onboarding and professional learning for key roles in KIPP Texas, at scale.  The DPLTP will manage the recommended leader professional learning scope and sequence and collaborate with other departments on design and execution with year-long cohesion to support and operationalize instructional coaching and competency development in our school-based teachers and leaders.  The DPLTP will also lead the systematic process of identifying, nurturing, and advancing school-based leaders within an organization to fill current and future roles effectively.  They will actively oversee the progress of individuals in the talent pipeline, tracking their development, providing support and resources as needed, and ensuring that there is alignment between the organization's strategic goals and the skills and capabilities of individuals in the pipeline.

Key Duties

1. Professional Learning Vision & Implementation: Oversee the preparation, execution and in-field follow up of professional learning aligned to the KIPP Texas Academic Strategy setting vision for teacher Summer and in-year Professional Learning; coordinating multi-tiered professional learning for instructional leaders and teachers grounded in instruction, pedagogy, and content.

2. Professional Learning Design & Execute:  Lead the design and facilitation of session content grounded in instruction, pedagogy, and content; coordinate with other functional teams on session design to ensure high-quality content aligned to adult learning principles.

3. Coach & Develop Leaders Through Professional Learning: Observe and provide feedback for any and all enabling systems; coordinate targeted feedback for assistant principals alongside Directors of Instructional Excellence and Directors of Talent Development, including coaching a small portfolio of assistant principals directly as it relates to instruction, pedagogy, and content coaching of teachers.

4. Monitor Outcomes: Set vision on and tracking success metrics  to support with progress of PL session execution and mastery of content

5. Cross-departmental partnerships: Manage key partnership relationships with internal partners in service of executing a clear, comprehensive Cohesive Professional Learning strategy.

6. Team Management: As needed, build a results-driven, mission-oriented team culture for any direct reports through establishing a clear vision for success; hire, build, develop and retain strong performers; demonstrate clear, concise direction, feedback, and coaching; hold direct reports accountable for meeting targets and adjusting course as necessary in pursuit of goals.

7. Team Leader: serve as a key leader on the greater Professional Learning team; collaborate with team leaders to enhance state-wide strategy and evolve in service of the pursuit of transforming student results and eventually serving 100,000 KIPPsters in KIPP schools state-wide.

Additional Responsibilities and Duties

1. Provide exemplary support to clients, including SSP leaders, school management teams and Assistant Principals/Principals in service of instruction, pedagogy, and content development on campuses.    

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