Job Description

Ingenuity Prep equips PreK through Middle School students in Southeast, Washington DC, to excel academically and as civic leaders by combining high expectations with strong support for both students and teachers, fostering innovative classrooms, robust teacher development, and measurable student success that closes opportunity gaps.

About the Organization

Established in 2013, IngenuityPrep Public Charter School was founded with the goal of bringing more quality school seats to the Southeast corner of Washington DC. Starting with a PreK and Kindergarten, Ingenuity Prep added a grade each year after its founding, and it now serves just under 800 students in grades PreK-3 through 8th grade.

Serving a student body that is 98% Black and where 74% face significant economic barriers, Ingenuity Prep is committed to creating a place where ALL students can learn, create deep relationships, and become impactful civic leaders. The organization operates on one campus with three (3) academy principals (Early Childhood, Elementary School, and Middle School), approximately 180 staff (86% who identify as BIPOC and 78% as Black), and a leadership team that supports all three (3) academies.

Ingenuity Prep is a supportive school community dedicated to academic rigor and civic leadership, preparing students for the path to the colleges and careers of their choosing. Our innovative instructional model promotes small-group learning, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development for teachers and staff. Ingenuity Prep provides a quality option for families in Southeast DC, and has been recognized for its academic achievement and growth including a Bold Performance Award in 2019 and previously earning Tier 1 status from the DC Public Charter School Board.

What We're About: We seek to cultivate learners who are academically successful, social-emotionally skilled, impactful civic leaders.

Core Principles that run through every part of our school:

• Community & Relationships: Community and relationships are integral parts of academic and personal development. Our teachers take time to build meaningful connections with students, we support students to build relationships with each other, and we partner with our families. Furthermore, we are committed active citizens in our community.
• Equity of Access: At Ingenuity Prep we strive to provide the Southeast DC community with a school that levels the educational playing field for its students, providing them with high quality instruction and rich educational opportunities, equipping them to succeed at the same high levels as other students in the US and in other countries.

Cornerstones of Our Program:

• Rigorous Content and Individualized Instruction: We start by setting high academic standards for our students, and creating the circumstances for them to achieve academic excellence. We leverage a robust curriculum, high quality lessons, data-driven instruction, teacher specialization, small class sizes, and technology to personalize and accelerate student learning.
• Civic Leadership: We believe that academic excellence while very important is not sufficient to prepare students for the demands of 21st century leadership. Building civic leaders is core to our mission. We want to equip students to pursue their passions and be empowered to think, speak, and act positively on behalf of themselves, their community, the country, and the world.
• Enrichment: Enrichment provides opportunities for students to build knowledge in areas of passion, which in turn fuel motivation and foster a growth mindset. We believe strong enrichment supports student growth and motivation across all parts of the school experience so we provide daily opportunities for students to pursue interest areas outside of traditional academics.

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About the Role

What You'll Do

As CEO, you will shape the next chapter of Ingenuity Prep's (IP) legacy. Over the past decade, IP has cultivated a strong, mission-aligned staff community that partners closely with families and is deeply committed to student growth and success. After years of steady expansion, the school has focused on strengthening its structures, systems, and leadership creating strong conditions the next leader will inherit to accelerate student achievement, elevate the student experience, and deepen community partnerships and students' connection to the strengths and rich history of Southeast Washington, D.C.

Ingenuity Prep seeks an experienced, equity-focused, relational leader, with expertise in organizational leadership and instructional leadership to serve as our next CEO. This exciting leadership role combines a compelling academic vision with a broader vision for building a strong community school. The incoming CEO will be responsible for the day to day operations, academic and fiscal oversight, and maintaining equity and accountability across all aspects of the organization. You will work closely with leaders to accelerate learning and foster classrooms that are rigorous, joyful, and affirming; enhance our student support and wellness programs, and strengthen family engagement. You will lead the Executive Leadership Team, steward a $25M+ budget with strategic precision, and build powerful partnerships with the Board, funding partners, policymakers, and community stakeholders to secure resources to realize Ingenuity Prep's mission.

This is an extraordinary opportunity for a courageous, forward-thinking leader who is excited about creating a proof point for what it looks like to create a high quality educational option in a community that has historically been excluded from opportunity where students' identities are centered and affirmed, academic excellence isn't the exception but the expectation, and where every student develops the competence and confidence to be impactful civic leaders that create their own extraordinary futures.

Equity Champion & Resilient Change Agent

• Lead with a deep commitment to racial equity, ensuring all students in Southeast DC have access to classrooms that challenge, affirm, and empower them.
• Proactively build and maintain relationships across the school community to ensure a culture of trust as a critical component of an equitable, student-centered environment.
• Seek to understand the barriers that impact students and families and partner with the staff, board, and the broader Washington DC community to address and interrupt those barriers in service of stronger student outcomes.
• Model resilience, adaptability, and courage in tackling complex challenges while keeping students' needs and potential at the center of all decisions.
• Inspire IP to embody a strengths-based, culturally responsive approach to teaching, learning, and operations.
• Inspire and align the Executive Team, the Board, school leaders, staff, and families around a shared commitment to racial equity, high expectations, and collective responsibility for ensuring students thrive academically, socially, and as future leaders.

Program Visionary & Strategic Leadership

• Partner with the Board and IP community to co-create and lead a bold, transformative vision that puts the strengths, potential, and brilliance of all students at the center, creating classrooms where every child is challenged, supported, and inspired to exceed expectations and leaves prepared to succeed in high school and beyond.
• Drive a culture of high academic standards, fostering creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking across all grades while cultivating belonging, pride, and purpose for every student.
• Partner with the CAO & Chief of Student Support and Wellness to implement instructional and social-emotional best practices - including but not limited to culturally responsive teaching, curriculum, and practices to accelerate outcomes for all students.
• Design and implement strategic initiatives that accelerate learning outcomes for all students, strengthen staff and leader capacity, honor the knowledge and contributions of families, and expand Ingenuity Prep's impact across the city.
• Rapidly improve outcomes by partnering with leadership and school-based teams to analyze student data, identify trends, diagnose root causes, and use outcomes to pivot or iterate toward desired goals.
• Uphold consistent systems of learning, development and accountability grounded in student outcomes and instructional best practices.
• Enhance and deepen family and community engagement initiatives to foster an inclusive community and improve collaboration in support of the whole child.

Organizational, People, & Culture Leadership

• Lead with an unwavering conviction that the organization can and will meet audacious goals and relentlessly persevere through challenges.
• Foster an inclusive environment that invites different perspectives, is responsive to feedback, and creates an environment where staff can thrive in service of the mission.
• Lead with empathy, humility and accountability - grounding ambitious goals in a deep belief in the brilliance, potential, and resilience of all students and the Southeast DC community.
• Attract, grow, and retain a diverse, high-performing Executive Leadership Team that drives results, fosters innovation, inclusion, and develops talent across the organization that exceeds expectations.
• Evolve and enhance leadership systems and practices (i.e. decision-making, alignment, collaboration structures, etc.) to enable organizational success.
• Cultivate a thriving school culture where students]]>

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