Director, K-8 Mathematics

Summary

Join KIPP Public Schools as the Director, K-8 Math and support KIPP regions’ Math and Instructional Leaders to pursue their regional student achievement and instructional goals. Collaborate to build effective regional professional learning and academic systems through various methods such as 1:1 check-ins, facilitating Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and providing professional development. Support program implementation as regions adopt new curricular or assessment resources. Track curriculum implementation and increase student outcomes in K-8 Mathematics for a portfolio of KIPP regions. Report to the VP of STEM and work closely with KIPP Foundation colleagues and KIPP network leaders. This role requires strong math instructional and coaching expertise, experience in instructional leadership, and a proven track record of achieving ambitious goals. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on students' lives.

Requirements

• Student and Mission Focus : Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
• Instructional Expertise in K-8 Math Curricula : Strong math instructional and coaching expertise including deep K-8 math content and pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of culturally relevant teaching practices and familiarity with current research; Demonstrated track record of results in advancing student outcomes. Knowledge of and skilled in effective professional learning and instructional coaching techniques. Understanding of the differences between teaching that is procedural based and focused on telling versus teaching in which the teacher facilitates student learning through rich tasks and understanding
• Achievement and Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency. Invests in developing teammates’ skills and mindsets to address gaps in achieving team growth; determines what quantitative and qualitative data are most relevant to their goals and supports the team in creating and monitoring systems for collecting, reviewing, and acting upon data to drive outcomes; able to monitor progress, communicating status to the right stakeholders and adjusting plans and use of time to ensure systems are yielding desired outcomes
• Instructional Leadership: Highly skilled and experienced in leading the Internalization and Planning process, conducting Observation/Feedback meetings, providing real-time feedback, leading Weekly Data Meetings, setting academic goals and monitoring progress
• Strategic Decision Making and Problem Solving: Efficiently defines the right metrics to evaluate work and ensures critical team actions, decisions, and recommendations are driven by data; effectively works with team to resolve issues around data to ensure sound data-informed decisions. Effectively identifies and addresses root causes to the most important problem
• Change Management and Communications: Effectively articulates case for change through clear and compelling presentations and translates this into actional plans. Effectively tailors communications and engagement approach for different audiences to deepen investment and drive actions and behavior change that would lead to org-wide goals; acts as a champion for change with cross-team stakeholders
• 4+ years of math teaching experience
• 2+ years of math instructional coaching/curriculum development/program implementation or similar out-of-classroom experience
• Understanding of teaching that is procedural based and focused on telling versus teaching in which the teacher facilitates student learning through rich tasks and understanding
• Strong math instructional expertise including deep K-8 math content knowledge, math pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of culturally relevant teaching practices and familiarity with current research
• Strong math instructional coaching expertise and knowledge of effective professional learning and instructional coaching techniques
• Successful project management experience with demonstrated ability to appropriately scope projects and work plans and to allocate resources accordingly
• Track record of exemplary performance in a team-based environment with multiple stakeholders and in roles using creativity, relationship-building with wide range of audiences; achieving results while operating within dynamic, fast-paced environment in the face of ambiguity
• Proven track record of exemplary performance in analytic and problem-solving skills; defining problems, framing options, conducting analysis and integrating new information, synthesizing and developing strategies, and implementation plans)
• Experience developing and leading professional development sessions for adult learners
• Experience navigating complex academic and professional learning systems in education and navigating systems change
• Travel requirements: 40%
• Full-time, Exempt role

Responsibilities

• Direct support and coaching of regional math/academic leaders to help them: Build and refine their lens for excellent and equitable math instruction and math coaching. Create routines and relationships for effective school visits. Coach through layers as coaches of coaches. Monitor, track and analyze student achievement data to drive content development and support math strategy. Monitor and improve the quality of instructional coaching and teacher development. Establish effective professional learning cycles from planning and execution of professional learning experiences, monitoring of participant learning and reactions, school support and implementation of new learning, to impacts on student outcomes
• Facilitate communities of practice to support program implementation: Set and monitor goals for inputs, process, and outputs for communities of practice and regional implementation of aligned programming. Plan and facilitate professional learning experiences for instructional leaders, including formal professional learning and collaborative workspaces. Support implementation of shared learning through 1:1 coaching, on the ground support, resource development and curation, and codifying and sharing effective practices
• Evaluate and iterate on program implantation in region and design of community of practice: Establish a logic model/theory of impact for programs and supports with aligned goals around input, process, and outcomes. Gather, analyze, and respond to data on programming and program impact aligned to logic model/theory of impact. Support regional implementation of effective data practices aligned to program implementation
• Contribute to the strategy, vision setting, program research and design, and cross team-collaboration in response to Foundation and Network priorities: Collaborate with teammates across contents and or teams in programs with shared goals. Participate in cross-team advisory, planning, or similar work in support of KIPP Foundation or Network priorities. Research, design, and lead projects emerging in response to emerging needs or priorities, in partnership with KIPP Foundation and Regional Stakeholders. Manage resource creation and development of supports for specific curricula. Manage partnerships with vendors and partners. Make recommendations into team’s budget planning, and responsible for managing against the grant budget and/or reporting on progress towards milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience math instructional leadership at a district/regional level or similar role supporting across multiple schools (preferred)
• Experience teaching or supporting Illustrative Mathematics, Open Up Resources, or Eureka Math2 (preferred)

Benefits

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+)
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts