Assistant Principal of Instruction - SPED (Immediate) | KIPP Austin Obras

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.

Job Description

The Assistant Principal’s job is to support the school in driving academic and character outcomes for students as a key member of the school’s leadership team. Assistant Principals are expected to lead both instruction and school culture while also developing leadership in the school’s emerging leaders. Our Assistant Principals aim to spend 75% of their time on instructional leadership.  They commit to establishing high-achieving schools that are diverse, equitable, and partnered strongly with the communities they serve.  

At KIPP, we believe that the Assistant Principal is a future School Leader and is therefore actively being developed for school leadership. The Assistant Principal should consider him/herself to be an apprentice to the School Leader and gradually build capacity to lead a KIPP school.

1. Model and support implementation of the school’s vision and goals
   • Support the development of the School Leader’s school-wide vision and take an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school 
   • Own the implementation of select school priorities in support of the school-wide vision 
   • With guidance from the School Leader, lead the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that s/he coaches and ensure alignment with school-wide vision and goals 
   • Monitor progress towards goals utilizing campus and regional enabling systems
2. Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritize time to accomplish goals
   • Provide input into the strategic planning of the school, and identify areas of ownership for self and direct reports
   • Effectively plan to meet goals through prioritization, establishing enabling systems, and managing time effectively - and coach others to do the same
3. Develop emerging leaders with School Leader’s guidance
   • Support the School Leader in identifying and developing emerging teacher leaders (Content Team Leaders and/or Grade Level Chairs) through goal setting, coaching, and providing feedback　　　　
4. Model strong staff and student culture and manage school-wide character development and behavior management system
   • Support teachers in understanding processes and roles in student support and intervention; develop systems and structures to ensure that limited time is spent on reactive student discipline
   • Build relationships with parents to promote a collaborative approach to supporting students’ academic, social, and emotional development
   • Promote strong culture through the management of parts of the daily school operations (e.g. arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, school trips, extra-curricular school activities, school events, facility maintenance) 
   • Act as the first Leadership Team contact on student intervention and parent engagement; determine next steps for issues that rise above the teacher/grade level/department
   • May manage and/or support Grade Level Chairs in their role
5. Collaborate with School Leader to hire diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff
   • Retain the highest performers across among teachers managed
   • Engage in the regional hiring process in collaboration with School Leader to ensure campus has a strong and well-developed talent pipeline
6. Build own and direct reports’ instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods. 
   • Content (Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment):
     • Develop deep mastery of the a