School Leadership (Dean or Assistant School Leader) - KIPP SoCal Public Schools

Responsibilities

• Model and execute school-wide vision and goals
• Plans, implements, and leads grade/department-specific priorities in support of the school-wide vision; leads select school-wide initiatives
• Provides input on the development of the school-wide vision and takes an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school;
• With guidance from the school leader, helps lead the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that they coach and ensures alignment with school-wide goals

• Contribute to school-wide planning and prioritize time to accomplish goals
• Executes on implementing the school-based strategic plan, and identifies what the school's strategic plan means for their own leadership and teams that they coach and manage

• Build own and others' instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods
• Develops strong understanding of academic standards in the subjects/grades for which they coach
• Understands the implications of standards on what a student should know and be able to do, connect teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge, and therefore what a teacher needs to know and be able to do to facilitate student mastery;
• Studies curriculum and assessment content and further develops understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery on the assessments;
• Teaches teachers how to assess for both student mastery and growth towards college readiness and insists that assessments are used to inform teacher instruction;
• Develops own and teacher's knowledge of best practices in instructional methods and teaches teachers how to match particular strategies to gaps in student mastery

• Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instruction
• Provide high-quality instructional coaching with frequent and scheduled teacher observations, actionable and bite-sized feedback, and accountability for adjustment in practice
• Lead engaging, actionable, adult-learning workshops; and hold staff accountable for implementation of the workshop practices
• May lead or coach others who lead department/content/grade-level meetings that focus on planning for and norming on instruction and culture, practicing instructional strategies, and progress monitoring the department/content/grade level
• Coaches and manages 1 - 2 teams via KIPP's Performance Management Cycle and Approach

• Lead data-driven instruction
• Help teachers on teams they manage to determine how data aligns to end-of-year goals, break-out data to analyze how every student groups is performing, determine what data is saying about areas of student mastery and growth, and identify specific instructional actions and adjustments to fill students' knowledge and skill gaps and a timeline to do so

• Model strong staff and student culture
• Manages elements of school-wide character development and behavior management systems;
• Implements systems and structures to ensure that most time is spent on teaching and learning, and that limited time is spent on reactive student discipline
• Manages parts of daily school operations (e.g. arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, school trips);
• Acts as the designated point of contact for student intervention and parent engagement, and for any issues that arise related to the teams they manage; Delegates to grade/department leads for resolution, as appropriate.
• Supports a culture where excellence is paramount by holding self and others accountable for achieving it

• Additionally,
• Participates in and supports hiring diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff through providing;
• Evaluates direct reports' performance in alignment with regionally set performance review cycles and policies
• May be administrator designee in the absence of the school leader and/or assistant school leader
• Other duties as assigned

Key Competencies

• Student Focus: Belief that all students, regardless of background, have the ability to go to and through college;
• Build Relationships: Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with students, families, teachers and colleagues based on mutual respect, integrity and trust.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honor and support a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives; demonstrated commitment to the school's community.
• Planning, Prioritization and Execution: Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, and execute on own and grade/department team's work
• Direction-Setting and Team Leadership: Ability to lead a grade/department teams to reach vision and goals
• Achievement Orientation and Performance Management: Demonstrated student achievement results in their own classroom. Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes.
• Instructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis; able to analyze student achievement data and identify team/individual teacher adjustments to instruction. Has built proficiency across own grade/department content standards and how they are assessed. Is beginning to develop proficiency in instructional coaching.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated passion for KIPP SoCal's mission
• Bachelor's Degree (required); Master's Degree (preferred).
• A minimum of three to five years successful full-time teaching experience, preferably serving a similar student population
• Possession of a valid preliminary or temporary/short term credential document authorizing service as a teacher issued by the California Commission on Teacher credentialing is strongly recommended

Compensation

• Competitive compensation package. Review our public salary scale here
• 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer, dependents added at 50% of the cost
• Employer-paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
• 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
• Voluntary Benefits (Pet Insurance, Supplemental Life, Accident, Short Term Disability, etc.)
• Generous paid time off program includes 22 holidays, sick leave, and vacation
• Other great benefits (Flexible spending account, EAP, etc.)

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