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Company:KIPP DCCurrent Opportunities (0) Company Website  Location(s):910 17th Street, N.W.Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20006 Map Location
Phone:(202) 223-4505Fax:(202) 425-5397Industry:Education / TrainingSize:50-99 |
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Company OverviewJoin a team of dynamic and dedicated teachers. Join KIPP DC.At KIPP DC, teachers are part of a supportive team that works collaboratively to provide an excellent education to the city’s under-resourced communities. KIPP DC teachers have the autonomy to meet their students’ needs and are provided with the resources to do so. Teachers are provided with excellent professional development opportunities, both locally and nationally. Join a fun team of dynamic and dedicated educators. The History of KIPP The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) began in 1995 when two Teach for America corps alumni, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, launched an intensive 5th grade academic program at Houston's Garcia Elementary School. Feinberg and Levin's students achieved such academic success that the following year Feinberg founded KIPP academy Houston and Levin founded KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, NY. Their schools' successes received national attention when the television program 60 Minutes aired a special on the KIPP schools. In 2000, Don and Doris Fisher, founders of GAP, Inc., formed a unique partnership with Feinberg and Levin to replicate the success of KIPP. Stemming from the belief that great schools require great leaders, they established a school leadership training program called the Fisher Fellowship Program. The program recruits, selects, and trains excellent educators to plan, open, and lead their own KIPP schools. Today, there are 45 KIPP schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia. KIPP DC Susan Schaeffler, KIPP DC's founder, was in the inaugural class of KIPP Fisher Fellows. After completing the year-long KIPP school leadership training program, Schaeffler and a team of dedicated teachers founded KIPP DC: KEY Academy in 2001. KEY opened with 80 5th grade students in the basement of Garden Memorial Presbyterian Church in Anacostia. Today, KIPP DC serves over 400 Washington DC students on two campuses in Southeast Washington, DC. KEY Academy is now at full capacity serving more than 320 students in grades 5 through 8 in the historic "Blue Castle" building in Southeast Washington, DC. In school years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, KEY Academy was the highest-performing public middle school in the District. The AIM Academy opened for the 2005-2006 school year with 88 5th grade students in the Congress Heights Methodist Church building in Southeast Washington, DC. KIPP DC: WILL Academy will open with 85 fifth-graders for the 2006-2007 school year. With this success as the foundation, KIPP DC will open two additional middle schools and one elementary school in Washington, DC over the next three years. The Five Pillars KIPP Schools operate under the Five Pillars, developed by Feinberg and Levin, which create the foundation for KIPP schools' success. The Five Pillars are: |
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