Deputy Chief, Instructional Excellence

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, 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, offices, and communities 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 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 with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Opportunity
The role of Deputy Chief of Instructional Excellence is to create, implement, and progress
monitor the execution of the strategic plan for curriculum high quality curriculum
implementation and instruction in service of improving academic achievement outcomes in
conformance with organizational and state goals and objectives, and within budget guidelines.
This role is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a diverse and dynamic Team and Family
committed to building academically excellent, and critically conscious schools in KIPP Texas.

The Candidate
Successful candidates must demonstrate a deep belief in the capacity of all students to
achieve at high levels, demonstrate strong instructional expertise and have the ability to work
collaboratively with a diverse set of leaders and teachers to improve student
achievement. Additionally,
● A minimum of 3 years of experience as a Successful School Leader Manager
● A minimum of 3 years of experience as a Successful School Leader
● Preference will be given to candidates with experience leading organizational
turnaround work
● Instructional expertise and experience across all grade bands, PreK- 12

Duties and Essential Job Functions:
The Deputy Chief of Instructional Excellence will lead a team who is responsible for
providing coaching support to transformation primary schools and priority secondary schools
via:

■Planning & co-leading weekly content team meetings in assigned schools
■Planning & co-leading weekly data team meetings in assigned schools
■Leading school-based practice clinics & teach backs
■Coaching APIs to impact with a focus on high quality instruction &
curriculum implementation
■Supporting transformational school leader managers & school leadership
team in progress monitoring actions that drive improvement in the areas of
data-driven culture, curriculum implementation, and high quality
instruction that leads to teacher impact
■Crafting and executing on school, regional and org-wide improvement plans
in response to curriculum implementation data
■Implementing small group instruction during Crescendo season in assigned
schools
■Leading weekly Coaching & Learning communities
 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
● Equity-Minded: Exhibits a commitment to equity through modeling of equitable
practices, and being a conscious disruptor of inequitable practices both at the school
and organizational levels;
● Instructional: Identifies effective practices in the first teach and in acceleration
classrooms, and understands pedagogy that results in improved student learning outcomes;
● Data-driven: Uses multiple data sources to differentiate the types of instructional
supports and interventions needed for individual students, specific student groups,
schools, and across a targeted group of schools;
● Achievement-Focused: Sets challenging goals, demonstrating persistence and
overcoming obstacles to achieve goals without confusing effort for results;
● Demonstrated ability to deal with sensitive and difficult situations and information; in
interpersonal problem-solving, decision-making and leadership skills; to communicate
effectively, both orally and in writing and to manage and work with a team to
accomplish mission and goals. Ability to maintain confident