School Leader KIPP Austin Collegiate

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!

KIPP Texas is hiring for School Leaders in all four regional locations; please indicate your preference in the application process.

• Austin, TX
• Dallas, TX
• Houston, TX
• San Antonio, TX

School Leaders play a critical role in advancing KIPP Texas’ mission to create joyful, academically excellent schools. As a school leader you will set vision and direction in partnership with staff, students, and families, manage, coach, and develop instructional, operational, and support staff, and collaborate with regional leadership to ensure student enrollment, school operations, finances, and talent are sound.

Lead a team to successfully build a school of academic excellence and joy

• Set ambitious school‑wide vision and goals aligned to statewide targets to drive improvement and student college readiness.
• Create and execute school‑wide plans to prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals.
• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team members dedicated to achievement and collaborative opportunity spaces.
• Lead, coach, and develop a school leadership team including Assistant Principals of Instruction, Assistant Principle of Operations, and other leadership staff.
• Hire, supervise, coach, and retain instructional and support staff at all levels.
• Partner with state‑wide departments to implement financial, operational, and talent systems and processes.
• Cultivate a high‑potential school leadership pipeline.

Act as the School’s Instructional Leader

• Partner with KIPP TX’s Academic Department and Head of Schools to translate academic strategy toward student success.
• Develop staff’s capacity to internalize high‑quality instructional materials, including grade‑level standards, curriculum, assessments, and lessons.
• Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports, in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Cultivate staff to effectively deliver daily learning and drive student mastery.
• Develop and deliver systems and processes to monitor student learning and teacher development.
• Support staff to collect and analyze student learning data to adjust instruction.
• Observe and coach campus‑based instructional leaders to ensure high‑impact feedback to teachers.
• Create and leverage mechanisms for teacher collaboration within and across grade levels and departments.
• Lead whole‑school professional learning to drive improvements in teacher practice.
• Continuously engage in learning related to content, pedagogy, and instructional methods.

Foster a Joyful School Culture

• Partner with the Assistant Principal of Operations and state‑wide school operations department to design and implement a plan to cultivate, register, enroll, and onboard new families.
• Provide a college‑going, joyful environment where students experience connection and rigorous learning.
• Maintain student enrollment to meet and exceed targets.
• Establish and implement school‑wide systems to support strong daily attendance and mitigate chronic absenteeism.
• Leverage school‑wide systems to develop a positive learning culture and strengthen rapport among staff and students.
• Partner with students, teachers, administrators, and families to address breaches to school culture.

• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Master’s degree in education or related field from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Texas Principal certification preferred.
• 3–5 years experience as a principal leading schools with a similar student population; experience leading school improvement preferred.
• At least 2 years Assistant Principal or equivalent school‑level leadership experience with a…