Elementary School Academy 1st & 2nd Grade Vice Principal Job Description
NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment, or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.
Ingenuity Prep prepares PreK, elementary, and middle school students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers. Our teacher career ladder rewards strong performance over time, giving teachers the opportunity to earn higher levels of base compensation and bonuses as they demonstrate effectiveness with their students and colleagues. Our instructional leaders are charged with supporting teachers by providing clear expectations, ongoing feedback, and targeted development.
We are seeking an innovative, self-starting, bold leader who is fiercely unapologetic about cultivating a learning environment where all students feel known, included, and appropriately challenged. You are an experienced manager and understand that the secret sauce to any team is the coaching and development of the adults who make the magic happen for students.
WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
- Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
- Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
- Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As an Instructional leader at Ingenuity Prep, you will:
- Along with the Academy Principal, share responsibility for ensuring that students achieve exceptional academic outcomes and growth as leaders, and that teachers create joyful, highly-efficient, and learning-focused classroom structures.
- Along with the Vice Principal of Special Education, share responsibility for ensuring that students with disabilities are learning and growing at a rate comparable to their peers.
- Regularly support a cohort of teachers through formal coaching sessions, real-time coaching, and professional development; provide teachers with actionable feedback that allows them to attain high expectations.
- Regularly analyze data including, but not limited to bi-weekly assessments, ANET, and DC CAPE scores to make shifts in curricular choices, intervention practices, and Special Education goals.
- Build strong relationships with students and families.
- Collaborate with Ingenuity Prep’s instructional leadership to identify instructional practices and strategies that will best support our teachers and students.
- Review lesson plans and student data to inform curricular, coaching, professional development, and student-support decisions and strategies.
- Provide emotional constancy and support for your team.
- Work intentionally to create an exemplary staff culture in which teachers can grow and thrive.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Ingenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:
- You have at least six years of combined experience as a lead teacher or instructional leader in a low-income school.
- You want to work closely with your peers, and in a school where teacher collaboration is a critical component of the instructional model.
- You want to work in a feedback-rich culture, and are eager to grow your practice as well as the practice of teachers.
- You have deep experience using academic data to drive whole-group and small-group instruction, and partnering with families as part of supporting student success.
- You believe effective instruction is full of joy and rigor.
- You have experience working with Teach Like a Champion or real-time coaching techniques
- You have a Bachelor’s degree and, ideally, a graduate degree in education.
MORE ABOUT US
Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive compensation for instructional and non-instructional positions.
- 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums and 50% of spouse’s or domestic partner’s premiums.
- 100% of employee’s short and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
- A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave, up to 6 weeks, at 100% of pay (60% from IP and remaining pay from DC Paid Family Leave ) for all staff — regardless of gender.
- A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
- A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
- MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use
Salary Range: $103,522 - $129,285 (commensurate with 1-10 years of experience)
Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions based on race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. COVID-19 vaccination is required prior to the first day of employment.
