Regional Superintendent

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free 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 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we 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.

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.

About Our Values:

Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive.  We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins.

Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.

Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students' potential and a commitment to addressing systemic  inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact.

About The Position

The Regional Superintendent is one of the most important leadership roles at the KIPP Foundation. This person is directly accountable for performance of a portfolio of KIPP regions, and their primary lens is always instructional. Student learning outcomes are the center of gravity for this role, and everything the Regional Superintendent does is ultimately in service of ensuring that every school in their portfolio is delivering a meaningful, high-quality education for kids. The Regional Superintendent is responsible for the performance of every region in their portfolio and drives results through the Executive Directors they support and supervise. They know what excellent school districts look like, they can  articulate what it takes to get there, and they hold EDs accountable for building toward that standard with rigor and  consistency. Coaching and development are central to how the work gets done — the core coaching relationship in this role is about developing EDs who can make their schools instructionally excellent — not just organizationally functional. In most regions, this looks like ensuring EDs have the content knowledge, skills, and systems to effectively manage and develop their Chief Academic and Chief Schools Officers, those senior leaders responsible for running the academic systems required to ensure excellence in teaching and learning. While the Executive Director is responsible for running the region — its finances, governance, talent systems, and operational infrastructure — the Regional Superintendent is responsible for ensuring the region has an ED capable of doing so. The health of the region is ultimately the Executive Director's responsibility to own and run. The Regional  Superintendent's role is not to manage those functions directly, but to help EDs avoid serious mistakes, recognize when a  situation is escalating beyond what an ED can manage, and surface those situations to the Chief of Regional Impact before  they become crises. When an ED cannot meet the bar even with coaching and support, the Regional Superintendent is responsible for surfacing that judgment and acting on it. This is also a systems and process role. The Regional Superintendent sees across their portfolio, identifies where regional performance is falling short, and builds clear action plans rooted in the habits and systems that drive school improvement — data-driven instruction, intellectual preparation of teachers and leaders, and strong organizational accountability. They are skilled at a particularly imp…