KIPP - Education Specialist - Mild​/Mod - Middle School - Stockton

Overview

About KIPP Public Schools Northern California

We are a thriving nonprofit network of free, public charter schools open to all students. 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.

We value the dedication, hard work, and passion that our teachers bring each day. KIPP Northern California supports you with professional development, coaching, and collaboration. We offer competitive pay and benefits that reflect the appreciation we have for our teachers and their dedication to students.

Our student community consists of over 7,000 elementary, middle, and high school students in East Palo Alto, Oakland, San Francisco, San Lorenzo, San Jose, and Redwood City, and Stockton. 79% qualify for free or reduced price lunch, 23% are multilingual learners, and 10% have special needs. We strive to cultivate a representative team of teachers and leaders that reflect our students’ diversity.

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  Purpose:
  
  Our teachers play a key role in bringing to life the academic and cultural visions of our schools. This includes daily lesson planning, intentional curriculum design, and regular data analysis to help all students learn and grow. Our teachers also implement Social Emotional Learning lessons and Restorative Practices to create a joyful, inclusive classroom community.
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  Collaboration:
  
  Our teachers work closely with the school’s Leadership Team, including their Instructional Coach, to ensure students are learning and growing. This includes weekly meetings, and ongoing feedback so we can continue to grow in our instructional practices.
• Commitment to Anti-Racism: We are committed to creating an anti-racist school community. We engage in ongoing development to reflect on our own identities and experiences and how that shapes us as people, educators, and leaders. As a community, we regularly analyze our school systems, academics, culture, data, etc., to reflect on our progress towards being an anti-racist organization and to make changes to address the needs of our community.

Experience:

• Experience as an educator teaching students with similar demographics to our KIPP Public Schools Northern California student community

Education:

• Hold a B.A./B.S. degree from a regionally accredited institution
• Meet one of the following eligibility requirements:
• Hold a valid teaching credential in the desired subject or
• Eligibility for a Provisional Internship Permit, or
• Eligibility for a Short Term Staff Permit

Knowledge/

Skills required:

• Commitment to KIPP mission and vision
• Commitment to being an anti-racist educator
• Believe all students can achieve at the highest academic levels
• Possess strong content area knowledge
• Strong skills building relationships with students, families, and communities
• Communicate well with students, families, and colleagues
• Proficient knowledge of Google Suite applications (Google Classroom, Hangout, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.)
• Ability to learn and utilize instructional technology to support in-class and distance learning (e.g., Zoom, Nearpod) as needed in pandemic environment

• Lead and manage the development, proposal, and implementation of eligible students’ Individualized Education Plans (IEP) in accordance with state and federal law
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop measurable annual goals in students’ areas of need including academic, behavior, and social emotional
• Provide specialized academic instruction, behavior intervention services, and other special education services, as assigned, through service models including co-teaching, push-in, pull-out, small groups, and one-to-one support
• Collect and analyze data regularly to monitor student progress towards IEP goals, report student progress to families, and to inform instructional practices
• Develop daily and long term lesson plans using curriculum and resources to align with students’ IEPs and KIPP’s academic mission and vision
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