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KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 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 just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income communities.

Job Description

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose – college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.

POSITION OVERVIEW: The Special Education Coordinator is a school-based role responsible for ensuring that all special education students receive comprehensive, compassionate and equitable services in order to achieve breakthrough academic achievement and character development. The Special Education Coordinator will serve as an intervention specialist to assist special education and general education teachers in helping every child meet grade level goals and will oversee the program and systems for all students who receive special education services. All KIPP Texas staff has a responsibility for ensuring that every KIPP Texas student achieves the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits necessary to succeed in the nation’s top colleges and universities. RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as the manager of special education teachers and paraprofessionals
• Lead special education and general education teachers to develop effective whole group practices, small group interventions, and individualized learning activities
• Assist special education teachers to create data-tracking systems to determine the effectiveness of interventions
• Lead professional development for special and general education teachers at the school
• Utilize the special education paperwork management system used at KIPP Texas to produce high quality, error-free IEP paperwork
• Collaborate with teachers so that they provide instructional support that leads to dramatic academic gains for students
• Manage additional resources and support (OT/PT, etc.), where necessary
• Monitor and lead all IEP evaluation and processes; serve as lead communicator with teachers and principal
• Maintain all documentation and records for individual students; ensure confidentiality in reporting
• Monitor for compliance with state and federal laws, ensuring consistent, fail-safe and quality documentation; provide comprehensive, work with staff to provide holistic reporting of student performance data to principal; serve as lead contact for authorized visits
• Advise teachers and principal on accommodation processes for state and school-wide assessments
• Oversee case management of a cohort of students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
• Support teachers in providing classroom accommodations and modifications, as well as in implementing other requirements of the IEP
• Promote a growth mindset, supporting staff and students in practices that lead to dramatic academic gains
• Some positions may require the employee to be able to stay with excessively disruptive or aggressive students during which time the employee may need to restrain, hold, lift, apply physical management techniques, and crisis intervention techniques on the student

OUTCOMES:

• Increase student growth and achievement
• Meet desired goals/benchmarks on Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and district-wide, state, and national assessments and measures of growth
• Ensure growth, development, and demonstration of character traits and KIPP Texas values

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 5 years of experience working as a special education teacher (preferred) in an urban school (preferred)
• Experience with and strong knowledge of local and national special education laws and mandates
• An active, valid Texas Standard Special Education certification or Probationary Special Education certification
• Bachelor’s degree (required); Master’s degree (preferred)
• Experience leading a team of special education teachers or paraprofessionals
• Spanish bilingual a plus

COMPETENCIES:

• Unwavering commitment to KIPP Texas’ mission, students, families, and community
• Strong record of helping students achieve academic success, primarily with minority and low-income students
• Strong desire to teach an academically intense curriculum and commit to an extended school day, week, and year
• Desire to continuously learn and increase effectiveness as a teacher and professional; offer and receive constructive feedback
• Willingness to be flexible and to go above and beyond to meet the needs of KIPP Texas students

Additional Information

Compensation

As a full time KIPP Texas employee you are eligible to participate in all KIPP Texas’ benefit plans. KIPP Texas offers a robust variety of benefits choices with competitive rates, including medical, dental, and vision options, as well as life insurance and disability plans.

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

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