Senior Director of Advanced Academics

Company Description

KIPP 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 Description

ROLE OVERVIEW:

The Senior Director of Advanced Academics works with the Managing Director of High Schools and Deputy Chief of School Leadership & KIPP Forward to help craft a plan for, and drive execution of advanced academics across our high school
community. The Senior Director of Advanced Academics will play a critical role in refining and implementing our vision for advanced academics for all and in partnering with school leaders to improve achievement in advanced academics. As a matter of equity, all KIPPsters deserve both access to and the ability to succeed in equitable advanced academics opportunities. Succeeding in advanced academics classes best positions our KIPPsters to be academically prepared to succeed in college
classes and to explore their own interests so that they are best positioned to lead lives of choice. As such, our Senior Director of Advanced Academics will be responsible for keeping equity explicitly at the center and forefront of their work with schools and shareholders.

General Role Description
• Equity Based Leadership: Model equitable practices while teaching and insisting that School Leaders and school leader managers also be models of equitable practices in their advanced academics decision making and disrupt
inequitable practices for both BIG and Little KIPPsters.
• Direction Setting: Collaborate with teammates across schools and functional teams to co-create and build investment into our advanced academics strategy. Work in partnership to build investment in advanced
academics for all and ensure systems support advanced academics achievement.
• Coaching: Coach and support school leaders and school leader managers in leadership competencies aligned to their individual professional learning plans, and specifically in the areas of equity based leadership, instructional leadership, leading through others, and leveraging impact and influence to drive transformational change.
• Data Analysis: Analyze data at the student-level through the regional levels in order to support School Leaders and school leader managers in setting rigorous goals around advanced academics enrollment and achievement and monitoring progress, particularly during Crescendo Season
• Professional Learning : Craft and lead professional learning experiences that are rigorous, aligned, and collaborative in service of building community within, and across, the high school community.

Duties and Responsibility

Working with the Managing Director of High Schools and Deputy Chief of School Leadership, the Achievement Director will:

• Co-Develop, implement and progress monitor org-wide initiative around advanced academics
• Manage a team of advanced academics achievement directors & indirectly manage advanced academics curriculum writers, assessment coordinators, and deans of advanced academics
• Coordinate across the School Leadership team to ensure vertical alignment
• Refine and implement advanced academics year plan aligned to state, regional and school level annual goals and targets
• Facilitate rigorous and engaging professional learning communities related to adv