Senior Director of ELA Achievement (K-2)

KIPP•Indianapolis, IN

7d•Onsite

About The Position

KIPP Indy Public Schools (KIPP Indy) was founded in 2004 and has grown to serve 1,400 students across three schools. KIPP Indy is committed to creating joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue their chosen paths. This role is responsible for managing and building capacity in teachers and leaders, overseeing curriculum strategy, alignment, and implementation, and managing the delivery of professional development aligned with the region's instructional approach. The Senior Director will coach, develop, and manage teachers and leaders, support the execution of the strategic vision, and cascade curriculum and strategy components through school and academic teams. This position requires a strong focus on results, the ability to stimulate action in others, and the use of data to drive improvement.

Requirements

Minimum 4 years of exemplary teaching experience with strong student achievement results
Minimum 2 years of exemplary, full-time teacher coaching and adult management experience
Minimum 2 years curriculum development and management
Model of effective and high-quality instruction
Demonstrated ability to drive student success
Experience planning and leading engaging and effective professional development for adults
Experience in curriculum support, such as assessment writing and/or scope and sequence management
Strong project management skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail
Excellent communicator, who can work with internal and external stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Science of Reading and associated curricula, as well as CKLA Skills and Fishtank

Responsibilities

Coach, develop, and manage teachers and leaders through training, professional development, ongoing one-on-ones, collaborative work, real-time feedback, and performance evaluation structures.
Support with the execution of the strategic vision, stakeholder engagement, professional development execution, progress monitoring and response to data, planning and communication, performance and change management, and other responsibilities as necessary.
Cascade all curriculum, alignment, implementation, development, and strategy components as needed through teachers and leaders to school and academic teams.
Partner with School Leaders to ensure block fidelity through a variety of systems and structures (classroom observations, meeting facilitation observation, PD, etc.)
Ensure that the region has a clearly defined assessment strategy aligned with our Together, To the Top priority that clarifies what assessments must be administered, when those assessments must be administered, and where data for those assessments must be entered.
Provide professional development before each school year to School Leaders and other instructional coaches regarding the region's curriculum and assessment strategy for the upcoming school year.
Provide ongoing leadership to ensure valid administration of assessments, including by providing expert support of related systems, assessments, and data platforms.
Lead literacy staff at all campuses, and facilitate collaborative scoring meetings where teachers grade student work against a clear standard for excellence designed to ensure that teachers internalize what college-ready work looks like for students at a given grade level.
Partner with school teams to ensure that KIPP Indy can provide increasingly effective assessment resources to teachers each year. This will involve working independently to create and revise assessments, working with outside consultants, and analyzing the extent to which current internal assessments are predictive of external measures.
Lead the development and execution of an annual professional development strategy for these content areas (including all staff summer professional development, ongoing shared regional professional development, and content team meetings at campuses).
Lead the training of School Leaders, Assistant School Leaders, and instructional coaches during their professional development days on how to effectively execute the region’s curriculum and content area best practices based on the areas of teacher practice the region is prioritizing during that school year.
Annually determine the regional expectations for daily lesson internalization, unit internalization, and looking at student work protocols in these content areas, as well as frameworks for coaches to lead these meetings.
Ensure the provided professional development is high quality by a) developing their own capacity to model strong PD delivery, b) by working with outside experts as needed, c) by observing other leaders deliver PD and providing feedback, and d) by reviewing feedback surveys and conducting follow up walkthroughs to determine the effectiveness of PD.
Support content-specific professional development as a part of specific days outlined on the calendar.
Throughout each school year, offer a series of professional development sessions aligned to one of the region's priorities.