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.

Temporary (January 2023 - April 2023) Part-Time Tutor (20 hours per week)

Position Summary
Part-time tutors are charged with providing students with highly personalized tutoring in reading during the regular school day. Tutors are charged with building strong relationships that help to increase each student’s self-confidence, investment and ability to meet and exceed learning goals. This is a part-time position that is not benefits eligible or TRS eligible.

Tutors provide instruction for no more than 5 students at a time. This allows for the individualized, foundational and supplemental instruction in a safe space, where students are encouraged to engage with one another and explain their thinking. By using reading as the vehicle, Tutors foster critical thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged citizens who question, reflect, self-assess, visualize, respond positively to feedback, persevere, and internalize goal setting as a tool for continuous self-improvement.

Tutors receive curriculum materials, ongoing mentoring and guidance from their assigned Instructional Lead. Tutors are charged with focusing on the individual needs of their students, helping to accelerate student achievement and close any skill gaps that may exist.

Tutors’ responsibilities include:

• Providing daily, small group instruction
• Planning engaging and mastery driven learning experiences
• Communication with students, campus staff and families
• Providing ongoing feedback to students
• Data analysis and response to student progress and performance

Required activities include, but are not limited to:

• Instruction
  • Carry out all the responsibilities of an academic tutor and ensure that students are consistently learning and challenged
  • Assist students in setting and reaching academic goals
  • Observe, monitor, and assess students’ performance on a regular basis and record data to track student progress towards academic goals
  • Modify instruction and lesson plans based on student assessment results
  • Tutor students using a variety of research-based instructional strategies designed to support students’ individual needs
• Planning
  • Collaborate with classroom teachers and Instructional Leads to ensure tutorial lessons are aligned with classroom instruction
  • Communication & Feedback
  • Communicate with students’ families at least once every two weeks to update them on their student’s academic progress in acceleration groups
  • Actively participate in lesson preparation activities
  • Meet with Instructional Lead regularly to receive coaching and both informal and formal evaluation and feedback.
• Compliance
  • Maintain confidentiality of student information as required by law and KIPP Texas policies
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Expertise in the content and grade level assigned

Required Education and/or Experience:
Being a Tutor is an intense but rewarding experience. The following characteristics are what we seek from each and every one of our Tutors:

• Associates degree or higher required.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) required.
• A team-player attitude with a strong sense of personal accountability and strong communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to be flexible and deal with a certain amount of unpredictability.
• The ability and willingness to go above and beyond to help support student achievement.
• Experience working with adolescents or related fields preferred.
• Experience tutoring or mentoring youth is preferred.

Compensation

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.