Senior Manager of High School Academic Health

Company Description

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.    

 
Our mission: Together with families and communities, we 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. 

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. 

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations. 

Job Description

Position Overview 

Research increasingly points to the importance of the 9th grade experience and students having a strong transition to High School. A strong HS GPA has become an essential part of ensuring that 9th graders are set up to have a strong start to High School. GPA has also become more important than ever with the rise of test optional policies for post-secondary applications. Because of this increased value, HS GPA and the 9th Grade experience is a critical priority for KIPP High Schools.  The Sr. Manager of High School Academic Health has the opportunity for tremendous impact on KIPP High Schools and students across the country; ultimately to improve student’s academic health and access to the strongest post-secondary options after high school. 

The Sr. Manager of High School Academic Health, directly reporting to the Director of Strategic Projects on the High School Team, would be responsible for coaching school-based leaders to lead their school’s 9th Grade On-Track teams. These school-based teams develop and refine progress monitoring and intervention systems that improve 9th grade student GPA, failure rates, attendance and a sense of belonging. The coaching work would involve coaching a set of KIPP high schools to use improvement cycles (plan, launch, monitor and respond to data) to codify best practices that are leading to results.  As a member of the High School team, this person will deliver a variety of implementation supports to regions, support in developing and executing the long-term academic health vision for KIPP High Schools and will hold leaders and teachers accountable in order to support One KIPP, and ultimately student achievement across KIPP high schools.    

This role would be perfect for an experienced instructional coach that has a track record of developing meaningful coaching relationships that lead to strong student performance outcomes. They believe in the importance of the 9th grade experience and feel passionate about supporting 9th graders in their transition to High School. They are a data driven leader that is fluent in data analysis and building coaching meetings around data.  They may have served as a grade team lead, instructional coach, Assistant Principal, or in another leadership capacity at a High School. 

Key Responsibilities and Duties  

Coaching and supporting leaders to drive academic health outcomes:  

• Set annual and quarterly coaching goals with academic health leader focused on essential academic health outcome measures. 

• Lead virtual coaching calls with academic health leader focused on implementing ongoing improvement cycles that enable leaders to regularly reflect on and respond to real-time data from their schools. 

• Monitor school-level progress and performance, both remotely and on-site, to ensure clear lines of sight into what is happening on-the-ground and to provide a pathway to improvement for the academic health leader. 

• Provide direct feedback to leaders on their school On-Track meeting to drive results on key 9th grade outcome measures. 

Planning and executing with Director to support long-term academic health vision: 

• Create and lead cohort meetings (both virtual and in person) with the subset of schools focused on sharing learnings, in-progress data, and professional development  

• Develop high-leverage resources for network leaders to utilize (i.e. turnkey PDs, one pagers, agendas, trackers) that not only serve as a model of excellence but also provide a direct value-add to the network. 

• Design and exec