College & Career Readiness Teacher

Company Description Who we are

KIPP St. Louis is a part of a national network of free, open-enrollment, public charter schools offering a choice to families and children in St. Louis City. As the largest charter school system in the city, we are driven and committed to our mission, vision, and equity statement.

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

KIPP St. Louis currently educates over 2,000 students and at full growth, we will educate nearly 3,600 students and hundreds of alumni. Today, our St. Louis network consists of PreK-12th grade.

We believe that our educators are proving what's possible in urban education each and every day, by inspiring students and helping them discover the joy of learning. KIPP schools support our educators to help students achieve academic excellence, building the skills and confidence they need to succeed.

Together, we are raising the bar for every student, every day.

KIPP St. Louis Public Schools’ College and Career Readiness Teacher works as part of the KIPP St. Louis High School team in collaboration with the KIPP Forward team. The College and Career Readiness Teacher is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of curriculum for high school seniors that prepares students to identify, apply to, and successfully transition into best-fit post-secondary programs upon graduation.

In addition to college and career readiness instruction, the College and Career Readiness Teacher will be responsible for teaching three ACT Prep sessions, providing students with targeted instruction, test-taking strategies, practice, and academic support to strengthen their readiness and performance on the ACT.

The College and Career Readiness Teacher will work closely with academic teachers, KIPP Forward staff, families, students, and community partners throughout the greater St. Louis area to ensure students are equipped with the knowledge, skills, resources, and tools needed to successfully matriculate to and thrive in college, career, and beyond.

Full-time, Exempt, 10-month

• Direct Manager: Principal
• Direct Reports: None
• Key Collaborators
  :
  Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach, Teachers, KIPP Forward, and Regional Support

• Plan and deliver instruction where all students engage in grade-level standards, texts, and rigorous tasks daily
• Internalize curriculum to ensure alignment to standards, pacing, and high-quality outcomes
• Design and execute tasks that require students to analyze, justify, and apply learning
• Provide scaffolds that increase access without lowering rigor, including modeling, guided practice, and strategic supports
• Anticipate misconceptions and plan targeted supports to ensure all students can access grade-level content

Instruction consistently ensures that all students engage in grade-level standards, tasks, and content aligned to curriculum and pacing, with scaffolds that maintain rigor. Student work demonstrates analysis, justification, and application, resulting in increased access and success with grade-level learning.

• Design lessons where students do the majority of the thinking, talking, reading, writing, and problem-solving
• Facilitate structured academic discourse that requires students to explain, justify, and build on ideas using academic language
• Use questioning and task design to promote analysis, reasoning, and cognitive lift
• Create opportunities for students to make connections, defend thinking, and engage in meaningful dialogue
• Ensure engagement reflects cognitive work, not just participation or compliance

Students consistently do the cognitive work of the lesson, engaging in meaningful discourse, reasoning, writing, and problem-solving. Engagement is driven by rigorous thinking, with students independently explaining, justifying, and building on ideas using academic language.

• Establish and maintain a classroom environment grounded in high expectations, strong routines, and productive struggle
• Implement systems that maximize…