Director, K-12 Academic Operations - New York, United States - KIPP Foundation

KIPP Foundation

Verified Company

New York, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Company Description About the Organization**
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free 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 275 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

Our mission:

Together with families and communities, we 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.

Our vision:
Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources, and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.

About Our Values:

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Focus on

Excellent Results:

Winning for Children and Families - Denying people of color and people experiencing economic hardship excellent outcomes from public organizations is longstanding and only perpetuates inter-generational racism and poverty.

We pursue excellence at a world-class level because our children and families deserve nothing less.

We focus on excellent results, generated by excellent daily action because intentions alone will not enable our children to lead fulfilling lives.

- **Courageous Action: We do Hard Things All day, Every Day -** Our work is centered on reversing the impact of generational racism and poverty on children of color from low-income families. This work is inherently challenging and will never be easy. Our mission requires that, through concerted action, we embrace, confront, and overcome adversity.
- **Resilient Solutions Focus: Find a Way or Make One -** We doggedly pursue solutions to every problem we confront. For every problem, we find or invent a solution. We are smart, optimistic, and thoughtful in crafting solutions, but also timely, recognizing that our children only have one life to live. We embrace a growth mindset, believing that simply because we have not achieved our ultimate aims today does not mean that we cannot tomorrow. We chase the continuous improvement of ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, our teams, and our organization.

Job Description About The Position**The K-12 Teaching & Learning team at KIPP Foundation sets the bar of excellence for what strong classrooms look like in the areas of K-8 literacy, K-8 math, and high school by establishing required practices for all KIPP schools in the areas of assessment, curriculum, and pedagogy. They also currently support KIPP schools and regions with science instruction and may expand the content areas in which we establish common practices in the future. To support this work, the team seeks a Director of K-12 Academic Operations who will take on the primary responsibilities of: ensuring that all KIPP instructional requirements are operationally feasible given possible guardrails and constraints in our regions, working with curriculum and assessment vendors to ensure that our partnerships meet our specifications, and managing the system by which we store and distribute key resources and tools associated with our requirements. This role will report to the Senior Vice President, Teaching & Learning.

Responsibilities

Operational Academic Cohesion

Partner with the K8 literacy and math teams to ensure their requirements for curriculum, assessment, and instruction are operationally feasible in the day/week/month/year of a school schedule.
Partner with the HS design team to ensure that their recommendations for requirements are operationally feasible for KIPP high schools.
Partner with content teams to build tools to support region and school operational planning (scheduling guides, assessment guides, etc.)
Build a system to understand where and why regions or schools are having operational difficulties to adapt tools and resources for their situation while still meeting KIPP requirements.
Use learning gleaned from regional implementation and execution to continue to improve upon our requirements and associated products from an operational point of view.
Work on key strategic projects that surface throughout the school year, as needed

Partner/Vendor Management

Build relationships with KIPP curriculum and assessment vendor points of contact so that they have a clear understanding of our strategy for driving student outcomes and can work with us in alignment.
Manage strategic process to influence shifts to vendors products and services in alignment with our strategy.
In partnership with legal and finance,