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What We Offer

The minimum salary range for this exempt position is $71,000 to $91,600 (per 1.0 FTE/45 hours), depending upon years of relevant experience after your Bachelor's degree and any advanced degrees (+$3,000 for 1st advanced degree and +$1,500 for 2nd advanced degree). The role includes a $1,000 signing bonus—and an annual $2,000 retention bonus in subsequent years, as well as other bonuses, when eligible. This role follows our Extended School Year calendar. For more about what we offer, how to apply and more about KIPP MA, please visit this link HERE.

KIPP MA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in building a vibrant and welcoming school community that advances our mission of ensuring that all KIPP students graduate with the skills and confidence to lead fulfilling lives. This includes a commitment to attracting and developing individuals who understand the experiences of the students and communities we serve. 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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Our Mission

Together with our families and communities, we create joyful and identity-affirming schools where students achieve excellent and equitable academic outcomes. We believe doing this ensures that our students are prepared to pursue any path they choose — college, career, and beyond — so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. Our program is based on:

• A focus on high-quality instruction supported by rigorous professional development to ensure that our students develop the academic skills necessary to pursue the life they choose.
• A high regard for character development to ensure that our students and staff celebrate and develop their character and identity strengths.
• An emphasis on family engagement, because we believe that our students are most likely to be able to maximize their potential when we work in partnership with our students and their families.
• A focus on college readiness for all students so that all students can make choices about their post-secondary education and future.

What We Do

We seek to provide a world-class education for students from educationally underserved communities in Lynn and Boston. Our student demographics mirror those of neighborhood schools in terms of race, socioeconomic status, Multilingual Learners (MLL), and students who receive special education services.

Our promise to families is that their children will enter college and the professional world able to thrive academically due to their literacy, numeracy, and core knowledge in science and social studies. We also promise that our students will develop the zest for learning and grit necessary to persevere as they climb the mountain to and through college and career. Our graduates will be prepared to return to their community as teachers, leaders, and architects of continued growth in Lynn and Boston.

Who We Are

KIPP Massachusetts began enrolling students in 2004. We currently hold two charters, operating two “districts.” Our first district, KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School, is based in Lynn, MA. Our second district, KIPP Academy Boston Charter School, is based in Mattapan, MA. Each district is housed on one or more “campuses,” which we use to refer to different grade spans, for example, elementary grades, middle school grades, or high school grades.

In Lynn, KIPP Academy Lynn Elementary (serving grades K-4), KIPP Academy Lynn Middle (serving grades 5-8), and KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate (serving grades 9-12), are all under our Lynn charter. Admission to any grade in the Lynn district is admission to all remaining grades in the Lynn district K-12. 74% of our students in Lynn are Hispanic, 15% are Black, 3% are multiracial, 5% White, and 4% Asian.

In Boston, KIPP Academy Boston (serving grades K-8) is under our Boston charter. Admission to any grade in the Boston district is admission to all remaining grades in the Boston district K-8. 36% of our students in Boston are Hispanic, 59% are Black, 3% are multiracial, 1% are White, and 1% are American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Across both districts, we serve over 2,200 students. KIPP MA has a Regional Office, with teams such as Teaching and Learning, Talent and Operations, which supports both districts.

KIPP Foundation

KIPP Massachusetts partners with the KIPP Foundation, which is a non-profit national network of college-preparatory public charter schools serving elementary, middle and high school students. The KIPP Network has a 30+ year track record of preparing our students in educationally underserved communities for success in college and life.

The KIPP Public Schools Network is made up of 278 K-12 schools, 28 regional support organizations, and the nonprofit KIPP Foundation. We are a national network with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni. Together, we continually raise the bar for teaching and learning, then ensure success in one classroom travels across our network to hundreds more. We believe that excellent academic, safe and structured schools, empowered teachers, an emphasis on character development and support through college and career are the foundation for student success, and we strive to provide this for every student.

All KIPP schools, whether they are in Massachusetts or in other states, are part of the free public school system in their respective states and enrollment is open to all students. KIPP public charter schools are given more academic and budgetary flexibility than traditional public schools, and in exchange commit to deliver high-quality academic results for students.

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Dean of Students at KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School

KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School Dean of Students will proactively help shape and lead our school culture to ensure our students and teachers continue their growth and development. The Dean will manage our restorative discipline system, including directly working with students, managing Associate D, teachers, and/or other school-based staff (dependent on staffing structure year to year), running professional development for staff regarding restorative practices, and monitoring our consistency across our campus. The Dean will also execute the school’s vision on campus by leading professional development, giving teachers feedback, and being a part of the Leadership Team to further drive our impact within our instructional coaching and classrooms. The Dean of Students is a critical role in helping to amplify our children’s potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges students each day.

This role requires consistent and reliable demonstration of the following essential job functions and key responsibilities:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES School Culture Responsibilities

• Highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has a strong culture in and out of the classroom

• Proactively circulating throughout classrooms and hallways during the day to gain valuable context on student behavior and to help support a positive school culture

• Lead all transitions including arrival/dismissal, hallways transitions, breakfast and lunch, and other school-wide transitions

• May be in charge of setting the tone and leading whole school lunch

• Model positive interactions with students and a variety of ways to handle behavioral disruptions

• Provide students in crisis with space and strategies to cope and to improve classroom and school-wide behaviors

• Model and facilitate restorative practices between and with students and staff

Family Engagement

• Serve as the point person for students and families regarding all disciplinary actions and culture issues

• Attend and support at-risk for retention conferences with students and their families as needed

• Communicate with families of our most struggling students on a consistent basis to provide feedback on their performance and progress

• Handle culture-based concerns brought to school leadership by families

• Facilitate family meetings between students, families, and teachers

• Oversee proactive school-wide family engagement structures

School Leadership Responsibilities

• Work closely with school leaders as part of the Leadership Team to ensure a joyful, safe, and effective school experience for all staff and students

• With the Leadership Team, develop and implement a vision for school culture that includes routines, procedures, and structures that affirm, value, and challenge students each day

• Provide ongoing professional development and feedback to all staff on issues of relationship building, school-wide behavioral plans, and ways to maintain positive culture within the school

• Collaborate with teachers, counselors, students, and families to create and implement effective behavioral plans accessible to all students

• Set ambitious goals and gather data to monitor and report progress of self, staff, and students

• Supervise and manage Associate Dean(s), teachers, and other school-based staff (dependent on annual staffing structure) with responsibilities that include coaching, hiring, and termination decisions.

General Requirements and Responsibilities

• Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self-awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively

• Participate and engage in regional professional development and community events as required

• Demonstrated ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the school

• Self-awareness, flexibility and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs

• The consistent use of interpersonal and self-management skills to effectively support behavioral and emotional needs of students to ensure a safe and inclusive environment, as well as build relationships and manage conflict with students, staff, and caregivers

• Effective communication skills to perform assigned duties and to meaningfully exchange information with students, staff, families and others in person, through written communication, in front of groups, and on virtual platforms

• Physical mobility to move self in various positions in order to execute duties effectively, which may include kneeling, walking, pushing/pulling, squatting, twisting, turning, bending, stooping and reaching overhead

• Physical strength sufficient to periodically lift and/or carry 20 pounds of materials or supplies and to physically restrain a student to keep from harming themself and/or others in an emergency situation

• Manual dexterity sufficient to perform repetitive hand/wrist/arm motions and to operate a computer and office equipment

KIPP MA staff are supported in their demanding work by experienced and dedicated leadership and staff who have themselves proven successful in the teaching role. Our leaders maintain consistent school-wide systems and procedures - academic, behavioral, cultural, logistical - designed to permit teachers to do their best work.

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, there will occasionally be other duties as assigned that staff will engage in to help promote a positive and calm learning environment and culture.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Deep alignment with KIPP MA’s mission and values, including the unwavering belief in the high potential of all students

• Demonstrated ability to drive student growth and achievement and to create a warm, inclusive, rigorous learning environment

• 2+ years of full-time teaching experience (teaching background required)

• Bachelor’s Degree required

• Computer literacy and baseline familiarity with Google Suite

• Pass Criminal Background Checks

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