Senior Director of ELA Achievement (K-2)

KIPP Indy Public Schools•Indianapolis, IN

6d•Onsite

About The Position

KIPP Indy Public Schools (KIPP Indy) is seeking a Senior Director of ELA Achievement (K-2) to manage and build capacity in teachers and leaders. This role involves coaching, developing, and managing educators through various support structures, aligning with the strategic vision, and ensuring effective curriculum and assessment strategies. The position plays a crucial role in driving academic excellence in English Language Arts for K-2 students, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring high-quality professional development. The Senior Director will partner with School Leaders to ensure fidelity in curriculum implementation, establish a clear assessment strategy aligned with regional priorities, and provide professional development to educators. This includes leading literacy staff, facilitating scoring meetings, and working to enhance assessment resources. The role also involves leading the development and execution of professional development strategies, training school leaders and coaches on best practices, and ensuring the quality of professional development through various feedback mechanisms. The position requires a strong focus on results, data-driven decision-making, and effective resource management.

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

Manage and build capacity in 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.
Manage curriculum strategy, alignment, and implementation.
Partner with School Leaders to ensure block fidelity through 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.
Partner with school teams to ensure that KIPP Indy can provide increasingly effective assessment resources to teachers each year.
Lead the development and execution of an annual professional development strategy for ELA content areas.
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.
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 developing their own capacity to model strong PD delivery, working with outside experts as needed, observing other leaders deliver PD and providing feedback, and 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.
Offer a series of professional development sessions aligned to one of the region's priorities throughout each school year.