ELA Achievement Specialist

Job Description

Achievement Specialists will have the opportunity to play a significant role in ensuring that our instructional vision is lived inside of our classrooms and schools by supporting school leadership teams with program implementation, instructional coaching, aligned data analysis practices and aligned development opportunities. Additionally, Achievement Specialists will provide intensive support for struggling campuses within their assigned portfolios.

Knows the achievement across the region in the assigned content area and at priority campuses and can speak to the region-wide/campus level response to the data

Proactively analyzes portfolio data on a cycle, action plans and communicates with the appropriate individuals using data to drive decisions and action at the campus and regional level

Observes classrooms regularly and provides clear, actionable feedback to the shared leader

Provides feedback to the shared leader that improves teacher practice and student achievement by: developing and maintaining positive working relationships with leaders, leveraging the strengths of the school and the systems in place and providing high leverage action steps

Observing and/or facilitating content team time and providing feedback that leads to improvement of the content team time

Working side-by-side to develop content knowledge and coaching skill of assistant principals Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree (required), master’s degree (preferred)

Experience as an Assistant Principal or Instructional Coach

Four or more years of teaching experience, 7 years or more of teaching experience preferred

Expert knowledge of curriculum as it relates to content, courses, standards alignment, and assessments; experience writing or editing curriculum highly preferred

Strong ability to coach others towards improvement regardless of reporting relationship

Well-developed communication and problem-solving skills

Achieved significant academic gains as a teacher in his or her own right;

Experience developing and leading professional development;

Experience in analyzing data and using results to ensure increased student mastery;

Strong knowledge of pedagogical practices to ensure high level engagement and academic mastery for students with low academic performance

Additional Information

Compensation and Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas’ competitive benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600 employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.