Multilingual Education Specialist

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre-K–12 schools across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we prepare students for college, career, and beyond in a high-quality, well-rounded education that emphasizes academic success and personal growth in a productive, safe, and joyful environment.

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas, we hire dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals who believe every child can succeed. We are a mission-driven team united to support classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child to "run to school," the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you.

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to shape their futures. We operate 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

About The Role:

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose — college, career, and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and families, working to ensure access to opportunity. We celebrate our diverse identities and are committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students.

The Multilingual Education Specialist plays a central role in supporting the school in fulfilling KIPP Texas’ mission by directly impacting the academic and linguistic success of all Multilingual Learners. The Multilingual Education Specialist serves as a campus leader who supports the administration of the multilingual program, providing instructional coaching on sheltered instruction pedagogy and monitoring compliance for all English learners on the campus.

The role leads professional development on English Language Development (ELD), linguistic accommodations, and instructional practices for emergent bilingual students, and provides ESL instruction with small groups of newcomer/beginner students for 1–2 class periods per day. The Specialist also communicates with parents of emergent bilingual students and plans Title III parent, family, and community events.

• Use campus data to identify and prioritize courses and teachers to improve EB academic achievement
• Lead ML professional learning for teachers and school staff through sheltered instruction coaching cycles, content team meetings, lesson internalizations, data meetings, and campus-wide professional development
• Monitor progress of teachers’ use of content-based language instruction strategies
• Highlight best linguistic practices across grade levels
• Enhance ML program hiring practices and support ESL paraprofessionals and Bilingual/ESL teacher retention

• Complete BOY, MOY, and EOY LPACs and related activities on time with fidelity and validity
• Plan and execute campus-wide TELPAS and TELPAS ALT
• Build strong relationships with all emergent bilingual students
• Teach 1–2 English Language Development and Acquisition (ELDA) courses to newcomers, beginners, and intermediates
• Monitor usage and growth on Summit K12 for all EBs on campus
• Facilitate EB Title III events with parents, families, and the community to foster a welcoming school culture

• Bachelor’s degree (required) with relevant credentials
• At least two years teaching Multilingual Learners (Content or Pull-Out ESL and/or Bilingual Program)
• At least two years of experience as an LPAC member
• Specialized training in Second Language Acquisition (Sheltered Instruction, SIOP, Biliteracy, Content-Based Language Instruction)
• Strong record of advancing multilingual students’ content and language skills
• Texas teacher license with an ESL or Bilingual Education endorsement
• Primary Schools – Texas teacher license with Bilingual Education endorsement or
• Secondary Schools – Texas teacher license with an English as a…