Director, Instructional Support - Newark

Job Description
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KIPP NJ is hiring for a Director, Instructional Support (DIS) to support our schools, staff, and students in Newark, NJ. At KIPP NJ, DISs serve first as members of our School Management Team, and then as leaders of their discipline in the academic program. Using best practices, standards knowledge, vertical thinking, input and feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, and an equity lens for developing content, DISs are responsible for increasing the instructional leadership capacity of school-based leaders (including School Leaders, and Assistant Principals) by deepening everyone’s subject matter expertise and modeling and coaching instructional power moves. DISs are prepared to engage in challenging situations where they must improve results fast, using a wide toolkit of instructional expertise and coaching experience.
Serve as a Band Interventionist, Driving Results inHighest Need Areas (40%)
Support the highest-priority areas across a school band as designated by a Head of Schools. Be willing to show flexibility in deploying to highest-need projects and learning environments.
Drive designated, short and long-term, academic results for your content of focus at all costs.
Support focus schools, new leadership teams, or new teachers, serving as an additional buffer in high-stakes learning environments
Coach and Support the Implementation of the Academic Program (20%)
Beyond designated support outlined above, maintain steady-state support for an entire band of schools to get extraordinary results in both growth and achievement,by engaging in coaching &
strategy sessions with each school based on need
By working with instructional leaders in each school, build our school-based leaders’ content knowledge and instructional leadership capacity -- this may include engaging in walk-throughs, student work analysis protocols, coaching O3s, leading and monitoring content meetings, supporting PD implementation, and more
Ensure that every one of our schools is creating equitable experiences for students by increasing support at high-needs campuses when needed, and partnering with Teaching and Learning in order to drive rapid improvement in key academic systems and processes
Analyze data and student work from major assessments with instructional leaders at each school and make recommendations about responding to misconceptions and implementing instructional next steps
Serve as a point person for all things programmatic, operational, data-related, and logistical – from assessment questions to materials management – related to the grade level / subject the Coach is responsible for
Lead and Engage in Professional Development (20%)
Support (co-plan, co-lead, lead/model) content TEAM meetings in schools, on an as-needed basis
Embrace and develop skill in a wide range and methods of professional development and coaching, including real-time feedback, co-teaching and model teaching, observation and debrief, etc.
Serve as an Outstanding TEAMmate on the Regional Leadership TEAM (20%)
Collaborate with other members of the RLT, to engage in coherent decision-making across the grade band and content area
Participate in routine meetings with the RLT team, to solve tactical matters, engage in strategic work together, build vertical content knowledge and program, etc.
Participate in routine and/or schedule ad hoc meetings with Heads of Schools, School Leaders, and APs, to solve tactical matters, engage in strategic work together, and respond to the most pressing needs our schools have
Participate in periodic updates with Managing Director of Teaching and Learning, to ensure T&
L team and Head of Schools team move in lockstep on highest priority needs at our schools
In years that EKGs are in place, participate in the EKG Walk-Through process, to objectively score schools on instructional practice and to generate feedback designed to move schools forward
Participate in teacher rubric scoring and rating, to help schools norm their scoring and calibrate the rubric scores for all teachers in a building