Program Manager, Primary Multilingual Programs

About KIPP Texas Public Schools 

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 30,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to 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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values-driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As a Regional Program Manager, you’ll leverage experience with effective content-based language instruction, instructional coaching, and biliteracy pedagogy to drive academic outcomes for emergent bilingual students. You'll serve as a language acquisition expert, utilizing your understanding of bilingual and dual language education frameworks and evidence-based language strategies to drive academic achievement and language development across primary grade bands and content areas. 

With a focus on effectively implementing KIPP Texas's multilingual products and frameworks, such as Get Ready!, Summit K12, 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom, and dual-language simultaneous biliteracy instruction, you’ll directly coach teachers, multilingual education specialist, and school leaders on effective strategies to support multilingual KIPPsters. Through strong coaching and ongoing progress monitoring, you’ll play a vital role in improving academic and linguistic outcomes across our campuses. 

You know you are successful if you support your portfolio of schools to meet their KIPP Texas targets each year, leading to: 

• Significant emergent bilingual student growth in language development and academic achievement 

• 100% of schools in your portfolio achieve an A or B rating

• 100% of schools in your portfolio achieve the Domain III TELPAS growth measure. 

• 100% of schools in your portfolio achieve 90/75/40 on the Reading STAAR, with minimal gaps between EBs and non-EBs.

• 100% of schools in your portfolio achieve 90/75/40 on the Math STAAR, with minimal gaps between EBs and non-EBs.

Key Responsibilities

• Focus on Achievement: Demonstrate a deep desire and record of results to support schools with closing achievement gaps for all emergent bilingual learners. Understand the research and importance of comprehensible input strategies to engage all emergent bilingual learners. Hold high expectations for themselves as well as the leaders and teachers to remove barriers for multilingual learners from academic achievement. Use research and various levels of data analysis to focus on student outcomes and how they are achieved to support responsiveness to both strengths and areas of opportunities for emergent bilingual learners. 

• Content Expert: Demonstrate expertise and understanding of multilingual frameworks, pedagogy, and instructional materials in an area of content expertise. You have experience effectively implementing KIPP Texas’s chosen resources and frameworks such as Get Ready!, Summit K12, 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom, and dual-language simultaneous biliteracy instruction. Stay well-informed of current curricular and educational thoughts, trends, and practices, as well as legislation impacting multilingual programming.

• Effective Coach: Lead instructional improvement efforts on a portfolio of schools by planning and facilitating professional learning, modeling effective CBLI strategies, observing classroom instruction, and providing actionable feedback to classroom teachers, deans of multilingual education, and school leaders. 

Effectively coach teachers to improve instructional effectiveness

Provide support to primary schools by:

• Partnering with the school-based leadership team, specifically by coaching deans of multilingual education, with a focus to impact the execution of CBLI strategies to meet the affective, linguistic, and cognitive needs of EB students through content in the students’ primary language and/or English.

• Leading deans of multilingual education and teachers in setting clear, measurable goals and providing ongoing support to plan and execute effective CBLI strategies through targeted observation and professional development

• Conducting individualized coaching sessions with deans of multilingual education to observe ELDA instruction, provide feedback, and collaboratively develop actionable strategies for improving comprehensible and compelling input for newcomers.

• Ensure consistent implementation of the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and linguistic accommodations aligned to students’ language proficiency levels. 

Facilitate professional learning communities that drive emergent bilingual achievement

Provide support to primary schools and deans of multilingual education by: 

• Planning & co-leading content team focused on the execution of CBLI strategies within the adopted KIPP Texas instructional materials

• Planning & co-leading data team meetings focused on the academic and language achievement of emergent bilingual students by analyzing cohort comparison data and summit K12 data trends

• Leading school-based practice clinics & teach backs focused on CBLI strategies

• Leading weekly PLCs for deans of multilingual education in their execution of ELDA, Summit K12 and CBLI strategies

Engage in continuous data analysis and action planning

Provide support to primary schools by:

• In collaboration with the school leader managers & leadership teams, craft and implement strategic response plans to meet the KTX emergent bilingual targets, including TELPAS growth and Domain III targets.

• Supporting school leader managers & school leadership teams in progress monitoring actions that drive academic achievement and language development for all current and monitored emergent bilingual students.

• Coaching deans of multilingual education on effective cohort data analysis practices

• Analyzing school-specific and regional data to identify emergent bilingual trends and support the development of response plans to meet annual goals

Progress monitor state and federal guidelines and policies

Provide support to primary schools by:

• Ensure that all state and federal guidelines are implemented across portfolio of schools by working collaboratively with KTX compliance manager and campus dean of multilingual education

• Assist with Title III engagement activities to increase and strengthen the family, parent, and community connections and supports to emergent bilingual learners

• Support KIPP teachers in acquiring required Bilingual and ESL certification with the support of the HR and talent teams

• Assist with planning the Summer Language Program recruitment, hiring, training, and monitor effectiveness aligned to students' growth

• Collaborate with regional and school-level CTCs to facilitate and monitor campus TELPAS testing plans for successful and accurate data collection

Successful candidates must demonstrate a deep belief in the capacity of all students to achieve at high levels, demonstrate strong instructional expertise, and have the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse set of leaders and teachers to improve student achievement. Additionally, 

• Bachelor’s degree, relevant Master’s degree in Multilingual Education preferred

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a successful assistant principal, school leader, or full-time sheltered instruction or bilingual  instructional coach at a primary campus

• Proven record of results driving emergent bilingual academic and linguistic growth 

• Deep knowledge of content-based language instruction (CBLI), dual-language and simultaneous biliteracy instruction and pedagogy 

• Leadership in planning and monitoring multilingual compliance policies

• Exceptional ability to set clear metrics for success, monitor progress, and demonstrate persistence in overcoming obstacles to achieving short- and long-term goals.

• Excellent leadership and management skills required; the ability to impact, influence, motivate, educate, coach, and inspire both internal and external audiences

• Exceptional coaching skills that lead to improved instructional effectiveness

• High self-awareness, humility, and integrity

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

What We Bring to the Table

• The starting point for the salary range for this position is $73,000 - $80,000 commensurate upon experience and internal-equity.

• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.

• Paid family leave.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits. High deductible health plan with HSA also offered.

• Employee assistance programs. 

• Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).

• 457 Roth retirement plan option with KIPP matching contribution up to $1,200 a year.  403b plans also supported.

• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.

• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Considerable time spent at a desk using a computer/laptop.

• Attending conferences or training sessions. 

Work Environment

• Reports to school site and/or regional central office Monday-Friday.

• Typical school environment with frequent interruptions.

Travel Requirements

• Regular travel across KIPP Texas regions for school visits, in person meetings, trainings, and conferences.

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.