School Leader

School Leader (26‑27)

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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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values‑driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

School Leaders play a critical role in advancing KIPP Texas mission to create joyful, academically excellent schools. As a school leader you will set vision and direction in partnership with staff, students, and families to drive towards school improvement initiatives and KIPP Texas overall goals for healthy schools. You will manage, coach, and develop instructional, operational, and support staff to ensure all students have access to a positive learning community focused on preparing them with the skills to pursue the paths they choose – with a particular focus on building a college‑going culture.

In collaboration with regional leadership and state‑wide departments you will leverage systems, supports, and processes to ensure that student enrollment, school operations, finances, and talent are sound. This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader with significant experience leading schools (particularly in transformation settings) to improve and become a premier campus marked by academic excellence and joy.

• Austin, TX
• Dallas, TX
• Houston, TX
• San Antonio, TX

• Set ambitious school-wide vision and goals, aligned to state wide targets, that will lead to school improvement and put students on a path to and through college.
• Create and execute school-wide plans to prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals.
• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to achievement and collaborative spaces of opportunity.
• Lead, coach, and develop a school leadership team of Assistant Principals of Instructions, Assistant Principal of Operations, and other leadership staff.
• Hire, supervise, coach, and retain instructional, and support staff at all levels across the schools.
• Partner with state-wide departments to implement financial, operations, and talent systems and processes.
• Cultivate a high-potential school leadership pipeline.

• Partner with KIPP TX’s Academic department and Head of Schools to translate KIPP TX’s academic strategy to drive towards school improvement and student academic success.
• Develop staff’s capacity to internalize high quality instructional materials, including grade level standards, curriculum, assessments, and lessons.
• Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports, in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Cultivate staff to effectively deliver daily learning to drive student mastery.
• Develop and deliver systems and processes to monitor student learning and teacher development.
• Support staff to regularly collect and analyze student learning data in order to adjust instruction.
• Observe and coach campus-based instructional leaders (Assistant Principals of Instruction, Grade level chairs, department chairs, etc) to ensure they are providing high-impact feedback to teachers.
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