Manager, Baker Teaching Fellowship (Anticipated)

Company Description

KIPP
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public schools educating 120,000 students in grades Prek-12 across 21 states and Washington, DC. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: Together, A Future Without Limits. You can learn more at www.kipp.org.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools  is part of the KIPP national network. Together with families and communities, we 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. As an organization that serves a student population that is over 90% Black, we center and value the experiences and perspectives of students, families, staff of color and the surrounding community. We also work to dismantle white supremacy.

In the 2024-25 school year, the KIPP Jacksonville region will be comprised of four schools educating more than 3,000 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade in the North and West sides of Jacksonville, Florida.

• KIPP Impact Academy: Kindergarten - 4th grade, 6th - 8th grade 

• KIPP VOICE Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade 

• KIPP Bessie Coleman Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade 

• KIPP Bold City High School: 9th - 12th grade

For the current school year, teachers at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools work the following hours Monday through Friday and may have occasional meetings or special school events outside of these hours. Hours for teachers and students may vary slightly by school.

• K-8 Staff: 7:30am - 4:30pm K-8 Students: 8:00am - 3:30pm, Wednesday K-8 dismissal is at 1:30pm 

• High School Staff: 6:45am - 3:45pm, High School Students: 7:15am - 2:30pm, Wednesday High School dismissal is at 12:30pm. 

Every Wednesday is a student early release day, which allows teachers to participate in weekly professional development and content team meetings. *This doesn’t include Wellness Wednesdays when all staff leave at student dismissal. 

To support these schools, we will employ more than 300 full-time staff members. We seek educators and colleagues that represent our core values of high expectations, growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. To learn more about what it is like to work and teach at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, please visit www.kippjax.org/teach where you can also view all of our job postings.

Job Description

KIPP Jacksonville seeks a Manager of the Baker Teaching Fellowship. The teaching fellowship provides focused development, support, and structure specifically around creating a positive classroom culture to individuals launching a career in urban public education. The fellowship is ideal for those graduating from an education preparation or alternative certification program, or one who has passed Florida subject area exams. There will be two Managers of the Baker Teaching Fellowship (MBTF) who will each manage a caseload of fellows across schools and serve as their coach.

Coaching includes observing, providing regular feedback based on an established framework, meeting with fellows one one-on-one, designing and leading professional development tracks for the fellow cohort, and working closely with key stakeholders to ensure fellows are meeting the requirements of the program. The bulk of coaching and support from an MBTF is focused on a positive classroom environment and the structures, mindsets, and tools needed for a joyful, engaged classroom culture to be realized. While the MBTF is not expected to be an expert on all contents and grade levels that fellows teach in, the MBTF should know best practices for instruction and support other professional areas for fellows such as lesson internalization and professionalism.

In addition to supporting new teachers in the classroom, Managers of the Baker Teaching Fellowship are responsible for supporting the larger talent team with the recruitment and selection of fellows for the program. This would include attending recruitment events, some levels of external outreach, and supporting the selection process for fellows in the program. MBTFs typically sit in on all fellow interviews and help support schools with placement recommendations.

Their goals center on fellow retention and readiness to run an independent classroom the following school year and supporting the talent