Assistant Principal of Advanced Academics

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 with 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.

The Assistant Principal of Advanced Academics supports the school in driving academic and student culture outcomes for students in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs. As a member of the school’s leadership team, you will lead school‑wide initiatives and monitor goal progress, supervise, coach, train, and develop a cohort of AP/IB teachers, manage key student culture initiatives, and support other school‑wide priorities.

• Act as a member of the School Leadership Team and support the development and implementation of the school leader’s vision.
• Identify and own select school‑wide priorities and initiatives in support of the school vision and short‑ and long‑term academic and culture goals.
• Lead the advanced academics program, including identification and implementation of new AP/IB course offerings.
• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to achievement and collaboration.
• Operationalize academic and student culture systems, processes, and routines.
• Lead the annual goal‑setting process for assigned grade levels and/or departments, reflecting regional and school‑wide vision and goals.
• Effectively action‑plan and monitor progress toward goals using established campus and regional enabling systems.
• Troubleshoot and respond to concerns escalated by students, staff, and/or families.
• Support the school leader in identifying and developing teacher leaders and retaining high‑quality advanced academics staff.

• Manage and coach a team of AP/IB teachers to achieve student academic and culture results.
• Develop mastery of the AP/IB courses for which you coach and their implications for all subjects.
• Drive alignment between advanced academic courses and other subjects to ensure readiness for AP/IB.
• Implement AP/IB curriculum that meets the needs of diverse learners, with weekly content‑team meetings and lesson internalization.
• Implement regular coaching cycles through observation and real‑time feedback.
• Coach a cohort of up to 9 teachers and collaborate with instructional staff to develop effective instructional strategies that address the needs of all students.
• Coordinate and implement school‑wide assessments and analyze assessments to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for intervention.
• Monitor student academic progress toward goals using data‑driven instructional practices and data‑analysis meetings.
• Evaluate classroom teacher performance using KIPP TX’s teacher evaluation rubrics.
• Lead teacher instructional development with support from the academics team and school leader.

• Lead school‑wide student engagement, character development, and behavior management systems that promote academic, social, and emotional growth.
• Develop team and staff capacity in leading student support and intervention practices.
• Build collaborative partnerships with parents and community to support student success.
• Promote a strong culture through oversight of student monitoring and daily operations (attendance, academic progress, arrival/dismissal, lunch/recess, school trips, extracurricular activities, school events, facility maintenance).
• Address conflict with appropriate measures to create a safe and trusting learning environment.
• Oversee collaborative structures related to instruction such as PLCs, developing PLC leadership capacity, creating and supporting data‑driven instruction systems and protocols, and ensuring logistical access to PLC time and resources.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least 2 years of teaching…