Senior Director Of Advanced Academics

Job Description
ROLE OVERVIEW:
The Senior Director of Advanced Academics works with the Managing Director of High Schools and Deputy Chief of School Leadership &
KIPP Forward to help craft a plan for, and drive execution of advanced academics across our high school
Community. The Senior Director of Advanced Academics will play a critical role in refining and implementing our vision for advanced academics for all and in partnering with school leaders to improve achievement in advanced academics. As a matter of equity, all KIPPsters deserve both access to and the ability to succeed in equitable advanced academics opportunities. Succeeding in advanced academics classes best positions our KIPPsters to be academically prepared to succeed in college
Classes and to explore their own interests so that they are best positioned to lead lives of choice. As such, our Senior Director of Advanced Academics will be responsible for keeping equity explicitly at the center and forefront of their work with schools and shareholders.
General Role Description
- Equity Based Leadership:
Model equitable practices while teaching and insisting that School Leaders and school leader managers also be models of equitable practices in their advanced academics decision making and disrupt
Inequitable practices for both BIG and Little KIPPsters.
- Direction Setting:
Collaborate with teammates across schools and functional teams to co-create and build investment into our advanced academics strategy. Work in partnership to build investment in advanced
Academics for all and ensure systems support advanced academics achievement.
- Coaching:
Coach and support school leaders and school leader managers in leadership competencies aligned to their individual professional learning plans, and specifically in the areas of equity based leadership, instructional leadership, leading through others, and leveraging impact and influence to drive transformational change.
- Data Analysis:
Analyze data at the student-level through the regional levels in order to support School Leaders and school leader managers in setting rigorous goals around advanced academics enrollment and achievement and monitoring progress, particularly during Crescendo Season
- Professional Learning:
Craft and lead professional learning experiences that are rigorous, aligned, and collaborative in service of building community within, and across, the high school community.
Duties and Responsibility
Working with the Managing Director of High Schools and Deputy Chief of School Leadership, the Achievement Director will:
- Co-Develop, implement and progress monitor org-wide initiative around advanced academics
- Manage a team of advanced academics achievement directors &
indirectly manage advanced academics curriculum writers, assessment coordinators, and deans of advanced academics
- Coordinate across the School Leadership team to ensure vertical alignment
- Refine and implement advanced academics year plan aligned to state, regional and school level annual goals and targets
- Facilitate rigorous and engaging professional learning communities related to advanced academics
- Work in partnership with achievement directors and curriculum specialists to build expertise in AP/IB, with a particular focus on the quality of coaching of AP teachers
- Develop our leadership and teacher expertise in AP/IB courses, with a particular focus on increasing our number of AP readers
- Partner alongside achievement directors, curriculum specialist, and achievement specialists to ensure that curriculum is aligned with our vision for advanced academics, seeing these choices through from identification and development
Through implementing rigorous training experiences for all stakeholders
- Support school leader managers and school leaders to hire, retain, and develop AP teachers and coaches
- Create and execute on systems to strategically gather input and feedback from School Leaders and school leader
Managers to consistently ensure equity of voice in decision making processes
- Model anti-racist and equitable practices for school leader managers and School leaders while supporting both in becoming strong models for the teams they support and lead
- Partner with the testing coordinator to ensure that there is a strong vision for AP/IB testing with a focus on increasing the % of students sitting for each test
- Plan for, implement, and invest schools in developing a strong culture around AP/IB participation for both teachers and students
- Institute strong accountability and enabling systems to support schools in attaining strong student outcomes on AP/1B tests
- Work in partnership to define our AP/1B course sequence and strategically support priority AP/1B courses
- Support School Leaders and school leader managers by staying well-informed of current curricular and educational thoughts, trends, and practices, as well as, proposed legislation impacting the schools
- Support school leader managers in managing annual and long-term school planning as it pertains to advanced academics
- Plan and execute on high quality, aligned professional learning for School Leaders, school leader managers and teachers
- Assist school leader managers in the creation and implementation of high quality, rigorous professional learning opportunities for their portfolio of school leaders
- Ensure that school leader managers and School Leaders receive additional support in critical areas and priority courses
- Inform and advise KIPP Texas leadership about the programs, practices, and challenges of the schools
- Ensure that relevant stakeholders are updated about our progress toward our AP/1B long-term goals and Advanced CTE metrics
- Ensure school leader managers and school leaders are aware of policy updates at both the regional and state level.