School Leadership (Dean/ASL)

Who We Are
KIPP SoCal Public Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates 20 tuition-free, open-enrollment charter public schools, within 20 Local Education Agencies (LEA), educating more than 10,000 students and supporting 6,800 alumni to and through college and beyond.
What We Believe
KIPP SoCal believes that the purpose of education is for liberation. This means that we see, develop, and inspire the limitless potential in each and all of our KIPPsters.
What We Do
At KIPP SoCal we build trusting relationships that are strengthened by high expectations and collaboration alongside laughter and joy. We set ambitious goals and hold each other accountable for students achieving their greatest potential. We work together with each other and in partnership with families and communities in the active pursuit of a more equitable world. We do the right thing, even when it's not always comfortable standing up and speaking out against anti-blackness, racism, oppression, and injustice. We persevere through obstacles and treat failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.
What You'll do
The dean of teaching role is an instructional staff and manager position. The dean’s job is to support the school leader and/or ASL in driving academic and character outcomes for students as a key member of the school’s leadership team. Deans lead both instruction and school culture. The dean will work in conjunction with the school leader and other members of the school leadership team to invest a team of mission-driven educators to execute on the necessary components to meet the vision of the school. Key components of this job include:
- Modeling and executing the implementation of school-wide vision and goals- Contributing to school-wide planning and prioritizing time to accomplish goals- Building own and others’ instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods- Developing teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instructionLeading data-driven instruction- Modeling strong staff and student culture  
A new priority application deadline is now Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at noon. A member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch with next steps once the application is submitted.
At this time, we are able to share the following confirmed Dean openings. Please note that these are subject to change, with potential additional openings becoming available before the application deadline.
Please indicate which school(s) you want to be considered for in your first essay response, even if that school is not listed below. If you are not familiar with the school at KIPP SoCal, please indicate a Los Angeles geographic preference and a lower school (TK-4) or upper school (5-8) preference. Thank you.
Openings as of May 8, 2025KIPP Compton Lower School (TK-4); South LAKIPP Empower Academy (TK-4); South LAKIPP Philosophers Academy (5GR-8GR); South LAKIPP Scholar Academy (5GR-8GR); SouthKIPP Adelante Academy (5GR-8GR); San Diego

Responsibilities

• Model and execute school-wide vision and goals
• Plans, implements, and leads grade/department-specific priorities in support of the school-wide vision; leads select school-wide initiatives
• Provides input on the development of the school-wide vision and takes an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school;
• With guidance from the school leader, helps lead the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that they coach and ensures alignment with school-wide goals


• Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritize time to accomplish goals
• Executes on implementing the school-based strategic plan, and identifies what the school’s strategic plan means for their own leadership and teams that they coach and manage


• Build own and others’ instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods
• Develops strong understanding of academic standards in the subjects/grades for which they coach
• Understands the implications of standards on what a student should know and be able to do, connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge, and therefore what a teacher needs to know and be able to do to facilitate student mastery;  
• Studies curriculum and assessment content and further develops understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery on the assessments; 
• Teaches teachers how to assess for both student mastery and growth towards college readiness and insists that assessments are used to inform teacher instruction;
• Develops own and teacher’s knowledge of best practices in instructional methods and teaches