KIPP Durham Exceptional Children Teacher Assistant

Position: [2026 - 2027] KIPP Durham Exceptional Children Teacher Assistant

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Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) North Carolina

Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) North Carolina, is a network of eight tuition-free, college-preparatory public charter schools educating approximately 3,000 students in grades K-12 in Durham, Halifax, Northampton and Mecklenburg counties. At KIPP NC, we are committed to improving the life outcomes of North Carolina’s children through the delivery of research-based, rigorous curricula that are grounded in research, and clearing the paths that our students choose to follow by ensuring that they have the roadmaps and guideposts they need to arrive at success – however they define it.

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School. Every Student. Every Day.

We see the gifts in everyone who walks through the doors of our schools. Especially our teachers. Their skill. Energy. Love. Their determination. On the good days and on the hard days. So we support our teachers to make the most of those gifts. It starts with respect – for our teachers’ innate talent and desire to learn, for their professional growth and the lives they lead beyond our walls.

We offer pay and benefits that reflect our appreciation for the invaluable role our teachers play in lighting paths to opportunity for our students. And as our teachers progress through the day, the year and their careers, we ensure they always feel the KIPP Team and Family at their backs, with opportunities to lead, and support to grow.

Essential Duties Preparing and Delivering Instruction

• Provide exceptional education students (individually or in groups) with physical help and emotional support so they can benefit from our instructional program
• Establish as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with students without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement
• Guide and help students with curriculum tasks set up by classroom teachers
• Work with students (individually or in small groups) to reinforce materials initially introduced by classroom teachers
• Assist with behavior management and other disciplinary procedures in a manner consistent with policies and expectations of colleague teachers and the school
• Keep supervising teachers informed of any issue with specific students
• Communicate with colleagues about student issues or special information as appropriate
• Communicate with, contact, and respond to families as directed by colleague teachers
• Assist students in such physical tasks as putting on and taking off of outerwear, moving from room to room, and using the bathroom
• Perform simple errands and tasks for students, such as sharpening pencils, carrying lunch trays, and the like, as needed given student conditions
• Perform classroom health procedures, when necessary, under the supervision of the school nurse
• Serve as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student evaluation team conferring about students to whom assigned
• Embrace and incorporate the gift of feedback from wherever it comes—colleagues, principal, assistant principal, regional coaches, students, wherever—in the spirit of Pursuing Excellence, one of KIPP NC core values

Building Positive Classroom and School wide Cultures

• Develop positive relationships with students, families, teachers, and staff through regular positive phone calls to families, routine curbside check-ins with families at arrival and dismissal, and attendance at all school events, including Back-to-School Night, family conferences, report card conferences, and all other school celebrations
• Leverage those relationships to induce behaviors and instructional habits from students that are significantly different from those previously exhibited; pinpoint and tap the needs, wants, and underlying motivations of students
• Participate fully in the daily routines of a school that form the foundation of culture, like arrival/dismissal, advisory/circle time, lunch, hallway transitions, and the 1,000 other moments that make up a day
• Embody, nurture, and build KIPP NC’s core values (Pursuing Excellence, Building Knowledge, Fighting Injustice, Sparking Joy, and Rising Together) and the school’s student and staff cultures
• Assume personal responsibility for student…