25-26 College and Career Counselor/AP Seminar

Company Description

KIPP New Orleans Schools (KNOS) is a non-profit network of 13 college/career-preparatory, public charter schools serving approximately 5,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, and over 2,000 alumni. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: To build academically excellent schools that create unlimited opportunity for all students. For 20 years, we have a proven track record of preparing students for success in college, career, and beyond.

At KIPP, you have the freedom to innovate and the support to grow. You never stop learning, and you’re part of a national network that’s leading the way in getting students from underserved communities to and through college, and beyond. As the largest charter school management organization in New Orleans, we serve nearly 15% of the city’s students, so we need passionate teammates to join us to make their impact at KIPP. Where will YOU take us? Click here to learn more about teaching and working at KIPP!

Job Description

As a school-based college counselor, Bard Early College New Orleans liaison, and AP Seminar teacher, you will play a pivotal role in both the process of students choosing their pathway for their junior and senior years, and in helping students to find their postsecondary opportunity that aligns with their pathway choice.  You will also serve as a “champion” and advocate for the Honors trajectory at your school.  

AP Seminar Teacher: Roles and Responsibilities

• Teach 2 sections of AP Seminar to 10th graders

  • Execute regional AP Seminar curriculum

  • Manage AP Seminar teams and Digital Portfolio

  • Execute YouScience program and 12 lessons of CKCS (Career Knowledge, College Success) curriculum

  • In fall of students’ 9th grade years, present to ALL English classes on AP Seminar

  • In February-May of students’ 9th grade years, run the interview process for seats in AP Seminar for 10th grade

    • Facilitate current AP Seminar students to interview prospective incoming students for AP Seminar

  • Facilitate AP Big Siblings program

    • In the 2nd semester of AP Seminar, recruit high-performing current students to serve as “big siblings” for future AP Seminar students

Bard Early College New Orleans Liaison: Roles and Responsibilities

• Push in/message out to ALL 10th grade students on BECNO program (1st semester)

• Aid interested students in the application process to Bard Early College New Orleans (2nd semester, 10th grade year, in AP Seminar class)

• Attend weekly, 30-minute meetings with Bard Early College New Orleans Dean of Students

• Work with school-based Dean of Academic Guidance and Bard Early College New Orleans/KIPP Coordinator to ensure all BECNO students are aligned with an on-time high school graduation with their dual-enrollment credits

• Work with school-based Dean of Academic Guidance to ensure all BECNO students have the high school-based credits necessary in their junior and senior years

College Counselor: Roles and Responsibilities  

(maximum caseload: 40 students per junior and senior grades; 80 students total)

• Manage 9-12 Honors Trajectory

  • Manage high-yield 9th Grade Partnerships

    • Push into 9th grade classrooms to advertise College Track (September)

      • Facilitate application and interview process for College Track with collaboration from College Track

      • Goal: at least one student applies each year

    • Push into 9th grade classrooms to advertise HS2 (October)

      • Facilitate application and interview progress for HS2

      • Goal: at least one student applies each year

  • Manage Honors Graduation requirements

    • With Dean of Academic Guidance, manage students’ IGPs for graduation with Honors from a KIPP New Orleans high school

• Lead Early Decision and Early Action cohort

• Identify 10-30 Early Decision/Early Action students by 2nd semester of students’ junior years based on student interest and GPA/ACT profile

• Message out scholarship and programmatic opportunities to Early Decision/Early Action cohort

• With assistance from the Match Manager and the Director of College, Career, and Persistence, facilitate outside partnerships and scholarship application process:

  • Manage QuestBridge Summer Bridge partnership (11th grade)

    • Goal: at least one student applies each year

  • Manage LEDA