Sy2024-25 Early Childhood Academy Vice Principal

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 - 8th grade 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 looking for an experienced instructional leader who is deeply committed to students, has a passion for early childhood instruction, specifically Kindergarten, and wants to continue building Ingenuity Prep’s Early Childhood Academy for students, families, and staff.

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 opportunity gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Instructional leaders at Ingenuity Prep:

• Along with the Academy Principal, share responsibility for ensuring that students achieve exceptional academic and social-emotional outcomes and growth as leaders, and that teachers create joyful, highly-efficient, and learning-focused classroom structures. 
• 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.
• Manage and evaluate teachers ensuring high levels of effectiveness and positive staff culture
• 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 and in an early childhood setting, especially among PreK and Kindergarten students. 
• You have experience working with the Every Child Ready curriculum
• You have experience coaching teachers to improve their practice.
• 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 believe effective instruction is full of joy and rigor and you have deep experience using academic data to drive whole-group and small-group instruction. You have a track record of moving student data in your own classroom 
• You have a history of partnering with families as part of supporting student success.
• 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 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: $103,522- $129,285 (commensurate with 1-10 years of experience)

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of 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.