Company Description

KIPP
KIPP Public Schools is a network of 280 public charter schools, 15,000 educators and 175,000 students and alumni. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: Together, A Future Without Limits. You can learn more at www.kipp.org.

WHY TEACH AT KIPP?

• Respect - For our teachers’ innate talents and desire to learn, for their professional growth, and for the lives they lead beyond our walls. We offer pay and benefits that reflect our appreciation for the invaluable role our teachers play in lighting paths to opportunity for students

• Support - As our teachers progress through the day, the year, and their careers, we ensure they always feel the KIPP Team and Family at their backs, with opportunities to lead and support to grow

• Purpose - Together, our students, schools, families and communities share an ambitious mission to create a future without limits. We need talented teachers and leaders to realize it. Shape the future for your students and yourself by joining us in our work.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is part of the KIPP national network. 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. As an organization that serves a student population that is over 90% Black, we center and value the experiences and perspectives of students, families, staff of color and the surrounding community. We also work to dismantle white supremacy.

In the 2023-24 school year, the KIPP Jacksonville region will be comprised of four schools educating almost 3,000 students, kindergarten through eleventh grade in the North and West sides of Jacksonville, Florida.

• KIPP Impact Academy: Kindergarten - 4rth grade, 6th - 8th grade

• KIPP VOICE Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade

• KIPP Bessie Coleman Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade

• KIPP Bold City High School: 9th - 12th grade

For the current school year, teachers at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools work the following hours Monday through Friday and may have occasional meetings or special school events outside of these hours. Hours for teachers and students may vary slightly by school.

• K-8 Staff: 7:30am - 4:30pm K-8 Students: 8:00am - 3:30pm, Wednesday K-8 dismissal is at 1:30pm

• High School Staff: 6:45am - 3:45pm, High School Students: 7:15am - 2:30pm, Wednesday High School dismissal is at 12:30pm.

Every Wednesday is a student early release day, which allows teachers to participate in weekly professional development and content team meetings. *This doesn’t include Wellness Wednesdays when all staff leave at student dismissal.

To support these schools, we will employ more than 300 full-time staff members. We seek educators and colleagues that represent our core values of high expectations, growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. To learn more about what it is like to work and teach at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, please visit www.kippjax.org/teach where you can also view all of our job postings.

Job Description

*Florida certification in Pre-K – Grade 3 OR K-6 is required * Reading Endorsement is Required*

This opening is specifically for our KIPP Impact Academy Location

POSITION OVERVIEW
The K-2 Literacy Coach is a year-round, certified, school-based position that is responsible for coaching their school’s K-2 teachers in literacy. They observe, give feedback, model lessons, and support their caseload of teachers. The projected caseload would be 12 teachers in K-2 who are self-contained teachers and collaborating with the Manager of the Baker Teaching Fellowship to support any fellows in K-2. This coach would also collaborate with school-based administrators who evaluate teachers, in addition to partnering with any other teachers who help support primary grades literacy, including learning specialists or interventionists. The K-2 Literacy Coach will also lead professional development for teachers and collaborate with peers and the academic team across the region. In the event a teacher is out, the coach may be asked to lead literacy instruction or model key lessons and must be certified to support students if needed.

Success in this role is measured by positively impacting literacy data for their school and for teacher retention of the teachers they coach.

As a school-based leader, this position is year-round and performs duties as assigned by the school leader. Typical hours for school-based leaders are 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and there may be occasional meetings, special school events, or commitments that fall outside of these hours. Student hours are typically 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Every Wednesday is a student early release day (1:30 p.m.), which allows teachers to participate in weekly professional development.

SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Coach primary grades teachers by establishing weekly observations and debrief meetings that include looking at data, best practices, and feedback to impact student achievement
• Own the primary literacy content teams in collaboration with the regional academic team
• Conduct walk-throughs specifically focused on urgent academic monitoring and respond to observation data in the moment through real-time coaching.
• Pull grade-level or school-level trends in data and adjust instruction and coaching accordingly
• Track all data, including data meetings, lesson planning feedback, and observation feedback in the regional performance platform
• In the event a teacher needs additional support in classroom culture to better achieve literacy goals, the coach would collaborate with a school-based administrator on support for classroom management routines and procedures that support literacy instruction
• Own their own professional development and growth by leveraging lifelines within the region and the broader KIPP network, asking for and implementing feedback weekly, and pursuing additional professional development and growth opportunities both within and outside the region.
• Establish and uphold school culture norms and hold teachers and scholars accountable to norms and expectations, both in classrooms and in shared spaces.
• Participate in all diversity, equity, and inclusion work at a school and regional level. Embody mindsets that work towards equity for our scholars and staff and model person-first thinking and the ability to have discussions about identity (race, gender, ethnicity, etc..)
• Work with the school-based leadership team to accomplish the school’s goals
• Knowledge of best practices and instruction of primary literacy to lead professional development
• Other duties as outlined by school or regional leadership teams

COMPENSATION*

• The starting salary for this position is $53,000
• Free individual level health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
• Free individual short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 403(b) retirement program with a company match
• To support professional practice and growth, all teachers and coaches receive individualized coaching and professional development

*The salary offered in the DocuSign doesn’t include any stipends for which the candidate may be eligible. In our first year of paying out millage stipends, non-certified New-to-KIPP staff received an additional $3,700. Certified New-to-KIPP instructional staff received an additional $7,000. Certified staff also received TSIA stipends this year. There are other opportunities to earn money at KIPP Jax in the form of additional stipends.

**offerings are subject to change year to year.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

• KIPP Public Schools Jacksonville believes that our staff will represent our core values—high expectations, a growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. We search for established educators who embody them.
• Possesses a deep commitment to both racial and educational equity; supports the building of an organization that reflects the community KIPP serves; holds self and others on team accountable for centering equity.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Florida Certification or Equivalent in Pre-K – Grade 3 OR K-6
• Reading Endorsement
• At least four (4) years of teaching experience with a proven track-record of high achievement in a K-3 literacy classroom with a similar population of students that KIPP Jacksonville serves.
• Can articulate a level of expertise in primary literacy instruction
• Has a level of teacher leadership, including but not limited to grade level chair, teacher coach, content area leader or chair, professional development facilitator, etc.

HIGHLY PREFERRED

• ESOL endorsement reflected on teaching certificate
• Master’s in literacy
• Experience as a primary literacy coach

Additional Information

APPLY
Please complete an application and upload a resume via our job board. No applicants will be considered who submit resumes through other job postings. Link here: https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/KIPP/jacksonville

NOTE: If you're a current KIPP Jacksonville team member and are interested in applying, you should 1) let your current manager know that you're interested and 2) complete the application in its entirety online.

QUESTIONS

If you have questions about this position at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, please email Emma at [email protected]. Please understand that resumes and/or cover letters are not accepted via email and you will be redirected to apply via the website.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment at our schools. KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation or national or ethnic origin.