HS School Leader - Miami
HS School Leader - Miami
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Job Description
KIPP Miami is excited to announce that we are hiring for a high school School Leader to found & lead KIPP Miamis first high school which will open its doors to students in Fall 2026. Individuals who are interested in leading KIPP Miamis 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.
Heres what you need to know:
The School Leaders 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.
Heres what youll 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 lessknown 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 schoolwide goals; delegates system of instructional leadership expectations to team
- Develops intervention systems that address gaps in subgroups 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 wellplanned 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 coursecorrects clearly articulated systems for how the school culture will function (e.g. behavior recognition consequences)
- School meets all orgmandated 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 inperson Town Hall events)
- Creates a culture and expectation that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive support in their childs longterm success
Talent Management
- Actively seeks to recruit cultivate and retain highquality 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 managesout 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
Qualifications :
- Bachelors Degree
- Demonstrated student achievement results from teachers and leaders that he/she manages and coaches; preferably in a high performing high school
- Strong track record with achieving results through other including community partnerships
- Experience with PostSecondary Match; preferably knowledge of Postsecondary landscape and placement in MiamiDade
- Demonstrated success in developing leadership capacity in others
- Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes
- Ability to set direction across an entire school and motivate others to action
- Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across schoolwide data using pertinent software applications.
- Expertise in what the schoolwide academic standards and state assessments require of students knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies
- Deep understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of highleverage instructional strategies (e.g. make kids sweat pacing stretch it etc.) based on comprehension of child development and pedagogy
- Command of instructional design and the benefits and tradeoffs of school design decisions in driving student achievement at the high school level; preferably has experience with Dual Enrollment being part of the instructional design
- Experience in managing various roles including teachers operation teammates counselors etc
- Tangible excitement about CTE programming (AI STEM etc) and demonstrates an ability to learn grow and innovate
- Preparing and maintaining accurate records.
- Operating standard office equipment.
- Operating classroom technology equipment (ie. smartboards projectors chrome books computers).
- Strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills
Physical Requirements
The usual and customary methods of performing the jobs functions require the following physical demands:
- Prolonged periods of working at the computer and sitting at desk.
- Travel to various school locations in Newark Camden and Miami.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Additional Information :
Compensation & Benefits
KIPP Miami offers a full comprehensive benefits plan including health care competitive 403(B) plan and a school laptop.
KIPP New Jersey KIPP Miami is an equal opportunity employer
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
