KIPP Texas Public Schools
Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Austin, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $140K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ September 26th, 2025
K-12
K-2
PK
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction to lead and drive PK-12 curriculum adoption, implementation, and evaluation across its Texas Public Schools network. This role involves providing strategic leadership, ensuring alignment with state frameworks, and overseeing instructional services, assessments, and compliance to maximize student academic outcomes.
Highlights
- Lead strategic development and statewide implementation of curriculum, assessment, and instructional programs.
- Ensure compliance with TEKS, HB3, ESSA, and other state/federal education regulations.
- Manage and develop multi-disciplinary teams, including coaching and evaluating departmental leaders.
- Drive student academic goals, including state ratings, literacy benchmarks, and college readiness metrics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Operations, Strategy, and School Management teams.
- Expertise required in Texas state standards, standards-based curriculum, and assessments.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred; with at least five years of systems-level leadership experience and 3-5 years of successful school leadership.
- Compensation starting at $140,000, with comprehensive benefits such as paid parental leave, medical plans, retirement options, and flexible PTO.
- Significant travel (approximately 40%) to support regional and state leadership needs.
- Responsible for budget management to ensure financial sustainability within the Curriculum and Instruction division.
Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction Full Description
Company Description
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 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 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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.
Job Description
KIPP Texas Public Schools is seeking a Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction, an exciting opportunity for systems-level leaders with a deep knowledge of curriculum, standards, and instruction to play a critical role as the primary driver of curriculum and assessment across our network. The Deputy Chief will provide strategic leadership, long-term vision, and direction for a multi-disciplinary team leading PK-12 curriculum adoption, implementation, development, and evaluation. The Deputy Chief Curriculum and Instruction is a lead learner that works to further the mission of KIPP Texas by ensuring all students have access to the rigorous, college preparatory curriculum they need to learn to be prepared to matriculate to the college and/or career option of their choice. This position reports directly to the Chief Academic Officer and will collaborate closely with colleagues within Academics, Finance, Operations, Strategy, and School Management as well as with other regional and school shareholders to ensure all schools across the KIPP TX network have the resources and support to deliver on KIPP Texas academic goals and priorities. Serving as a thought partner, problem solver, and change agent to internal and external stakeholders with steadfast commitment to action, this leader will oversee our network’s curriculum and instructional services, federal programs, career and technical education services, advanced placement courses, assessment, research and evaluation services. The Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction ensures that the network/school education objectives are aligned to state frameworks and to instructional practices that yield the highest standards of student achievement and instructional excellence.
As the Deputy Chief, Curriculum and Instruction, you will be accountable to:
Student Academic Outcomes
- 100% of KTX Schools achieve an A or B rating
- 90% of K-2 students reading on grade level
- KTX achieves 90/60/30 on Reading and Math STAAR
- 60% of seniors graduate having scored a 3+ on at least an AP
- 40% of 12th grade students score 21+ on the ACT or 1010+ on SAT
Compliance Outcomes
- Guarantee all curriculum, instructional materials, and assessments align with TEKS, HB3 plans, ESSA, and other state/federal requirements;
- Ensure instructional programming and curriculum meet legal and programmatic requirements for emergent bilingual, and SPED, with documentation to support TEA audits and monitoring;
- Lead compliance with state testing requirements, instructional materials allotment, and mandated submissions (e.g., HB3 early literacy/math plans), ensuring accurate and timely reporting,
- Establish systems to monitor curriculum implementation, professional learning, and data use so that all instructional programs are audit-ready and demonstrate accountability for student outcomes.
Division Leadership Health
- Maintain 100% financial sustainability by ending the year at or below the approved Curriculum and Instruction budget while maximizing resource allocation for student outcomes;
- Achieve ≥80% participation rate and ≥80% positivity score on the Two Step Culture Survey;.
- Maintain an average rating of ≥3 on targeted KIPP Texas Leadership Competencies.
Key Responsibilities
Academic Program Strategy
- Develop vision with clear goals and action plans for curriculum, assessment and instruction, XX federal programs, career and technical education services, and advanced placement courses that prepares students for college and/or a career of choice.
- Develop, implement, and monitor statewide curriculum, instruction, and assessment strategies in alignment with state frameworks and standards, driving equitable access and transformational student outcomes.
- Lead the adoption, review, and evaluation of curriculum across PK-12 and support school, regional, and state leadership teams to implement instructional adjustments and accelerate student growth.
- Design and oversee inclusive instructional models for career and technical education and advanced placement.
- Manage the creation, revision and vetting of curriculum materials and assessments that align to and then exceeds the expectations of state standards and meets the preparation bar for Advanced Placement (AP) and ACT Exam success in high school
- Supervise the creation and analysis of all state and regional assessments, including the creation of an annual state-wide assessment calendar
- Coordinate and maintain research-based instructional programs and ensure high-quality teaching and learning strategies for all students.
- Produce high-quality annual and quarterly reports that clearly communicate progress toward all program goals and targets.
Instructional Leadership
- Work with departmental and regional teams to build instructional leadership capacity of School Leaders and school leadership teams with particular focus on strong curriculum implementation and instructional frameworks.
- Establish and manage systems for timely and accurate completion of all required documentation related to state and federal deadlines, policy and legal expectations
- Consistently analyze data from assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum and lead the team in making the appropriate adjustments
- Create processes and gather insights to address immediate program needs while anticipating future-facing priorities across Curriculum and Instruction departments.
- Identify, plan, and lead professional learning for educators and leaders focused on curriculum tools and resources and research based instructional best practices
- Ensure compliance with, and approve reports for, all state, federal, and local agencies.
Team Leadership
- Manage, develop, and lead multiple teams to ensure best in class curriculum and instruction for students.
- Develop, coach, and evaluate departmental Managing Directors, setting and monitoring progress toward statewide strategic priorities, benchmarks, and growth goals.
- Oversee recruitment, retention, and development of curriculum and instruction departments staff.
- Routinely evaluate the performance of the KIPP Texas Curriculum and Instruction programs to ensure objectives are met and continuously improved.
Interdivision/Departmental Communication
- Ability to inspire, inform, and collaborate across the organization to ensure the instructional needs of our most at risk KIPPsters are supported and met.
- This leader needs to build deep and trustful relationships in the organization in service of their departmental goals.
- Collaborate cross-departmentally and with external agencies to ensure alignment in staffing, curriculum, enrollment, school selection, and communication strategies that support all students' success.
- Partner with Team Finance to develop and manage program budgets, ensuring effective allocation of resources to maximize student outcomes and maintain expenditure control.
Performs other duties as assigned. Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the network
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s Degree preferred
- Five (5) years of progressive systems-level leadership experience required
- 3-5 years of school leadership experience with demonstrated results required
- Expertise in TX state standards, standards based curriculum, and assessments.
- Proven success in leading district-wide efforts to transform curriculum and instruction for students in urban setting preferred
Skills
- Ability to work collaboratively to support school improvement and seek and value diverse perspectives.
- Identify opportunities for streamlining systems across functions at KIPP Texas Public Schools.
- Manages fiscal and physical resources responsibly, efficiently and effectively by using data to inform budget decisions and to equitably and adequately allocate resources to support KTX goals and student learning needs
- Strong demonstrated instructional leadership capabilities and dynamic adult teaching skills.
- Strong management, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong collaboration skills to ensure external partnerships are maintained and cultivated.
- Ability to develop, execute, and monitor strategic plans, annual goals and quarterly benchmarking for school improvement.
- Ability to problem solve, analyze and achieve results for all learners.
- Innovation oriented, team oriented, and data driven leader with high levels of energy and deep commitment to urban youth.
- Ability to lead programs in service of the organizational goals, potentially without deep functional expertise of some of the areas they lead
Additional Information
What We Bring to the Table
- The starting salary range for this position is $140,000 and is commensurate upon experience and internal-equity
- Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies
- Paid parental 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 and 403b retirement plan options
- 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
Work Environment
- Hybrid - three days working from the Houston regional SSP office; two days working from a home office.
Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel to various locations for in person meetings, or conferences, travel time approximately 40%.
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
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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