HS School Leader - Miami

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Job description

Job Description

KIPP Miami is excited to announce that we are hiring for a high school School Leader to found & lead KIPP Miami's first high school, which will open its doors to students in Fall 2026. Individuals who are interested in leading KIPP Miami's high school should apply for this opportunity by Friday, Nov. 15th. We anticipate holding interviews for this role in January 2025, for Summer/Fall 2025 start date.

Here's what you need to know:

The School Leader's primary responsibilities are to drive outcomes for students and to develop talent within the building and for the network. We expect our School Leaders to focus 75% of their time on instructional leadership, specifically focused on instruction, talent development and hiring and retention. We also expect our School Leaders to build lasting and sustainable organizations by developing strong internal capacity in teaching and leading, a pipeline of future School Leaders for their school and the network, and creating systems for the ongoing development of school staff. Good leaders create good leaders, and we ultimately define good leadership by the results leaders get for kids. Finally, we expect our School Leaders to perform their role through an equity lens, with an eye toward outcomes for traditionally underrepresented students and staff members.

Here's what you'll be doing:

Instructional Leadership

Drives and owns all instructional results for all students

Strong content knowledge: knows essential content, rigor of standards, and highly effective teaching strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; is able to readily adapt to leverage resources across less-known or more nuanced subject areas

Develops the capacity of leaders in driving results and developing teacher/leader capacity through observations, walkthroughs, real time coaching, and data analysis through O3s focused on student data and coaching towards goals, weekly walkthroughs, and frequent observation of leader work

Leads weekly conversations with school leadership team focused on progress monitoring, student achievement data and establishing strategies to meet school-wide goals; delegates system of instructional leadership expectations to team

Develops intervention systems that address gaps in sub-groups of students based on race, gender, SPED, or other identity marker.

Maximize the impact of formal PD time (including Content Team Meetings) by ensuring all sessions are well-planned and ample practice is prioritized such that it results in improved teacher effectiveness

Student Culture

Establishes a clear vision for excellent school culture and regularly articulates this vision to leaders, students, staff, and families

Consistently reinforces high expectations for all students all the time

Actively develops school culture where students find joy in learning and where students are joyful and engaged

Creates a culture in which teachers build strong and lasting relationships with students, especially the most challenging

Develops, upholds, maintains, and course-corrects clearly articulated systems for how the school culture will function (e.g., behavior, recognition, consequences)

School meets all org-mandated, federal, and state student compliance expectations

Community Engagement

Engages families and community stakeholders proactively and productively as partners in school goals. Performs this through various opportunities for families to engage (e.g., virtual and in-person Town Hall events)

Creates a culture and expectation that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive support in their child's long-term success

Talent Management

Actively seeks to recruit, cultivate, and retain high-quality candidates; prioritizes building a diverse staff and emphasizing staff that share similar backgrounds as our students

Identifies top performing teachers and leaders at regular points throughout the school year and works strategically to retain them

Manages struggling performers through goal setting and increased support and manages-out underperformers where necessary.

Strengthen the Network

Provides input to strengthen regional support: seeks to cultivate a partnership and proactively works to ensure a true feeling of team and family throughout the organization. Specifically:

Collaborates with Achievement Directors and other Teaching & Learning TEAMmates to monitor achievement data and inform the instructional leadership development of Assistant Principals

Prepare for and participate in regional selection, progress monitoring calls and professional development

Collaborates in a forthright manner with Talent team to make sure hiring needs of their campus and other campuses are met

Ensures that all school functions (operations, electives, instruction, leadership, etc.) have systems to coordinate and communicate with one another

Attends monthly school leader PD to hone content and instructional expertise

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