Managing Director, Primary Curriculum and Instruction

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 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 belongingness, academic success and joy.

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.

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Managing Director of Primary Curriculum and Instruction is responsible for co-creating and executing on the vision for primary curriculum and instruction, with a particular focus on foundational literacy, across our schools . The managing director will have recommendation and approval-making power to address day-to-day academic visioning and will be responsible for ensuring that KTX’s mission and goals are achieved.

Collaboration with multiple departments to ensure consistency of practice and use of resources will be essential as this position works continuously to improve the skills and knowledge base of middle and high school leaders.

General Role Description:

• Curriculum and Assessment Management: Manage the creation and vetting of curriculum materials and assessments that align to and then exceeds the expectations of state standards and meets the preparation bar for Advanced Placement (AP) success in middle and high school.  Set direction around master scheduling that allows schools to fulfill all requirements of the KTX academic program.

• Student Achievement: Ensure that curriculum is responsive to student achievement and create the expectation that all curriculum specialists and implementation leads are oriented that way by leading a team that embraces accountability and outstanding student results

• Data Driven Curriculum Creation: Lead curriculum team on the use of data to drive student achievement and hold team accountable for adjusting curriculum for continuous improvement

• Professional  Learning: Planning  professional  development  and  model  exemplary  implementation  of  the curriculum and best practices for lesson planning and delivery leveraging the curriculum to direct reports.  Vision, develop and lead professional learning for teachers and leaders to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge, skills and content expertise to support curriculum implementation.

• Professional  Learning: Design and vet professional learning experiences that ensure regional and school based teachers and leaders are equipped with pedagogical practices aligned to curriculum and instructional strategy and to support best practices around GPA

• Cohesive Coaching Cycle: Create and execute on primary vision for internalization and lesson instruction

• Math Achievement: Create and execute on primary vision to strengthen math curriculum and instruction materials 

Key Responsibilities

• Co-create and implement vision for foundational literacy as it relates to the curricular and instructional program 

• Co-create and implement vision for math curriculum and instruction to directly impact and increase math achievement

• Plans, administers and directs primary academic programs including Reading Academies and other state requirements

•  Formulates proposals for the development and revision of policies pertaining to primary education academic programs, including preschool curriculum and instructional vision

•  Establishes and monitors procedures for the primary education instructional program to include policies related to implementation of foundational literacy requirements

•  Interprets primary education programs to senior leadership, staff, and schools

• Assists regional and school leaders with planning and implementing effective instructional programs.