Dual Language Program Manager

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre‑K - 12 schools across Austin, Dallas‑Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high‑quality, well‑rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

As a Program Manager of Dual Language Programs, you’ll leverage experience with effective content‑based language instruction, instructional coaching, and biliteracy pedagogy to drive academic outcomes for emergent bilingual students. You’ll serve as a language acquisition expert, utilizing your understanding of Dual Language, Transitional Early Exit, and CBLI frameworks and evidence‑based language strategies to drive academic achievement and language development across primary grade bands and content areas.

With a focus on effectively implementing KIPP Texas’s multilingual products and frameworks, such as Amplify, El camino al éxito, Paired Literacy, Summit K12, 7 Steps to a Language‑Rich Interactive Classroom, and dual‑language simultaneous biliteracy instruction, you’ll directly coach teachers, Assistant Principals of Student Support and school leaders on effective strategies to support multilingual KIPPsters. Through strong coaching and ongoing progress monitoring, you’ll play a vital role in improving academic and linguistic outcomes across our campuses.

• Focus on Achievement:
  Demonstrate a deep desire and record of results to support schools with closing achievement gaps for all emergent bilingual learners. Understand the research and importance of comprehensible input strategies to engage all emergent bilingual learners. Hold high expectations for themselves as well as the leaders and teachers to remove barriers for multilingual learners from academic achievement. Use research and various levels of data analysis to focus on student outcomes and how they are achieved to support responsiveness to both strengths and areas of opportunities for emergent bilingual learners.
• Content Expert:
  Demonstrate expertise and understanding of multilingual frameworks, pedagogy, and instructional materials in an area of content expertise. You have experience effectively implementing KIPP Texas’s chosen resources and frameworks such as Amplify, El camino al éxito, Paired Literacy, Summit K12, 7 Steps to a Language‑Rich Interactive Classroom, and dual‑language simultaneous biliteracy instruction. Stay well‑informed of current curricular and educational thoughts, trends, and practices, as well as legislation impacting multilingual programming.
• Effective Coach:
  Lead instructional improvement efforts on a portfolio of schools by planning and facilitating professional learning, modeling effective CBLI strategies, observing classroom instruction, and providing actionable feedback to classroom teachers, deans of multilingual education, and school leaders.

Effectively coach teachers to improve instructional effectiveness

• Partnering with the school‑based leadership team, specifically by coaching Assistant Principals of Student Support, with a focus to impact the execution of Biliteracy and CBLI strategies to meet the affective, linguistic, and cognitive needs of EB students through content in the students’ primary language and/or English.
• Leading Assistant Principals of Student Support and teachers in setting clear, measurable goals and providing ongoing support to plan and execute effective Biliteracy and CBLI strategies through targeted observation and professional development.
• Conducting individualized coaching sessions with Assistant Principals of Student Support to observe ELDA instruction, provide feedback, and collaboratively develop actionable strategies for improving comprehensible and compelling input for newcomers.
• Ensure consistent implementation of the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and linguistic accommodations aligned to students’ language…