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Director, K-8 Literacy
4 months ago
**Company Description** KIPP Public Schools** is a national network of 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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 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.
**Job Description** About The Position**
At KIPP, we believe that achieving our Mission starts by supporting our students to become strong readers so they can build confidence; learn about themselves, others, and the world; express themselves and ultimately, craft their own future. We believe learning to read isn’t just about academic excellence, it’s about unlocking new worlds, being able to access and reflect on your own history and learning how to advocate for yourself and others. Also, it’s full of joy As a Director of Literacy, you will partner closely with regions to create sustaining systems and successful implementation of all One KIPP K-8 literacy initiatives and KIPP Foundation holistic assessment strategy in support of meeting ambitious goals for students. The Director reports to the Vice President of Literacy and Humanities and is a member of the K-12 Teaching and Learning Team.
**Key Responsibilities and Duties**
**Strategy Development**
- With the Vice President of Literacy and the Senior Director, Early Childhood and Elementary Literacy, you will develop our long-term One KIPP K-8 literacy model.
- Implement a strategy for a systematic foundational skills program maintenance and management
- Implement a strategy for DIBELS 8 assessment maintenance and management.
- Develop our sustaining K-8 Literacy Program Management Strategy, Assessment in partnership with regions
- Develop a vision and strategy for maintaining and updating our early literacy programming
- Diagnose current implementation of early literacy and K-8 literacy program design and fidelity to the network-wide model
- Create structures to progress early literacy and K-8 literacy program implementation and outcomes, with a particular focus on equitable outcomes for students
- Build continuous improvement structures
- Devise structures and mechanisms to collect insights, data, and best practices across a diverse body of programs
- Create a culture of sharing, reflection and collective problem solving
**Management and Execution**
- Partner directly with a subset of regions to build and/or refine their K-8 literacy systems (e.g., talent, curriculum and assessment, coaching) so that they create excellent and equitable experiences for all students
- Lead regular advisory/coaching calls to support regional partners in developing and executing a program that meets their regional vision and goals in alignment with the KIPP K-8 literacy model, e.g., a coaching systems and structures, curriculum and assessment implementation supports, approach to teacher and leader development, etc.
- Develop training, tools, and resources required to support program design
- Conduct site visits to support regional implementation and alignment with the KIPP K-8 Literacy model
**Team Leadership**
- With the Vice President of Literacy & Humanities and the Senior Director, Early Childhood and Elementary Literacy, support in leading the literacy & humanities team to ensure cohesive execution of the team vision and collaboration across the team and the overall KIPP Foundation, including attendance at team meetings
- Connect with teammates to ensure coordination across the team, in service of our regions; look across the KIPP Foundation to ensure collaboration and cohesion of strategy
**Qualifications** Key Competencies**
- ** Mission & Student Focus**: Expresses high expectations for all students and expresses belief in their potential to complete college and succeed in life. Keeps commitments made to others - especially students; desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s values (Focus on Excellent Results, Courageous Action, and Resilient Solutions Focus)
- ** Instructional Expertise in Literacy**: Deep understanding of early childhood and elementary literacy development and the science of reading; Demonstrate track record of results in advancing student outcomes
