Dean of Academic Progress - (24-25)

Company Description

About KIPP Texas

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 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 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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Opportunity

A KIPP Texas Dean of Academic Progress will provide assistance to the School Leader and/or Leadership Team with the administration of systems related to high school matriculation and graduation.

The Dean of Academic Progress furthers the mission of KIPP Texas by supporting a school culture that empowers students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character traits necessary to pursue a college education and a life of value, joy, and integrity. The Dean will work to support KIPP Texas’s mission and culture of achievement.  

We are committed to establishing high-achieving schools that are diverse, equitable, and partnered strongly with the communities they serve. This is a leadership position for a person who is organized, detail-oriented, and always follows through. Additionally, this leader is warm and demanding with students and parents, ensuring that they always turn in required documents and always complete challenging academic courses. The Dean of Academic Progress is relentless with adults and students and holds herself/himself accountable for achieving excellent results.

Duties and Essential Job Functions:

Academic Operations Support

• Assist with the registration, enrollment, withdrawal, and transfer of students and process applicable records

• Verify the accuracy and thorough completion of all student registration packets and determine eligibility for enrollment

• Enter all campus student information into the district student information system

• Communicate daily with campus administrators and special program coordinators to identify and correct missing or incorrect information in physical and electronic student data files

• Stay current with changes in Texas Education Agency governing documents pertaining to the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS)

• Coordinate campus-wide attendance process and work to maintain campus-wide compliance, accuracy and timeliness

• Maintain all digital course records and teacher/administrative access to online gradebook

• Process and transmit requests for student information, including verification of enrollment and transcripts for colleges and universities

• As directed, coordinate and manage state, district, and local testing

• Performs other duties as assigned

Academic Progress Management & Counseling

• Develop and maintain coherent, state compliant transcripts that prepare students for college and career (CTE, where applicable, and Advanced Placement).

• Develop and implement structures for clear graduation planning (Personal Graduation Plan) that includes electives, enrichment, credit recovery courses, and Advanced Placement courses.

• Monitor overall academic progress for all students

• Monitor and follow-up with students failing one or more courses each grading period, during the first four semesters in high school

• Coordinate teacher and advisor responsibilities and efforts to drive students’ academic progress through goal-setting and intrinsic motivation

• Intervene with support when students have challenges with attendance, academics or discipline

• Maintain and monitor [academic] compliance in areas such as Special Education, 504, LPAC and At-Risk students

• Coordinate verification and correctio