KIPP Employee Reviews
Out of 65 KIPP employee reviews, 43% were positive. The remaining 57% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping KIPP improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
My principal is super understanding and treats us like humans.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Communication and learning how to be proffesional when speaking to employees
Communication, transparency, and ensuring that all staff is trained.
Doing their job and holding themselves and other accountable especially students. Honor roll incentives and academic geared rewards/parties. Stop accepting unacceptable behavior simply because they come from "harsh" backgrounds coddling these kids is not going to give them a real chance in life.
They need to start working for people over profits as they claim in their core values.
They seem to be focused on an impossible idealized ideal without wanting to really listen and put in the work they need to make it a feasible reality for parents, teachers, and students.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Its okay can be better
It is decided with us and our families in mind.
Free dental coverage, low cost medical insurance
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Less hours and better salary. Let's criticism and less intrusiveness
Lead teachers are paid 50k which is good if it wasnt for the constant ridiculous demands that make the work week longer. Kipp will consume your life if you want to be a good teacher and admin will do absolutely nothing to help. NOTHING!
KIPP teachers and staff work at least 3x more hours than other teachers at comparable districts. And they are payed the same.
Comparable to public school salary, benefits are worse, but you will work roughly double the hours at KIPP versus the local district (I've worked the same teaching position at both). KIPP makes you do many additional unpaid tasks on the top of your contractual obligations.
They overwork us and they underpay us. There is no participation in the state pension fund.
What are some of the best things about your team?
We cover each other to make sure students are always supported.
Teachers and staff are dedicated to the mission and will do anything for their students. Leadership needs to change.
Fellow teachers are some of the hardest working, most passionate people I have ever met. You have to be to put up with the administrative incompetency and stay in this job.
Great team, hard working and skilled.
We are effective in meetings with attainable goals focused on our development.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
More meetings and follow rules
Co workers are great, kind and care for the students but no spine
Coworkers work very hard, however, when the constant is change, there is no standardization, and that keeps things always in flux without a sense of direction.
Coworkers work very hard, however, when the constant is change, there is no standardization, and that keeps things always in flux without a sense of direction.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Extremely critical reviews. You can never win here
Interactions with the students make it positive
The energy is positive and the people are loving.
Our school culture is strong and all teachers work well together.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Communication and more meetings will be great
Stop expecting your employees to fill in for all the corners you cut.
Be prepared to work 12-16 hours a day including weekends. KIPP will required you to do many additional inane data tracking tasks and minute by minute lesson plans (50 page lesson plans... No joke) or risk public shaming and being fired.
It doesn't need to be making change. It needs to find a constant and build from there.
It doesn't need to be making change. It needs to find a constant and build from there.
What did you like most about the interview process?
It was easy the people was nice
Richard Royal was an really great principal to the staff, he always took the time to listen.
It was fairly easy, because they constantly needing to hire to fill in for the mid-year resignations.
They are quite desperate for teachers so most people will be allowed in.
I was able to speak directly with students and tour the school.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Be honest that this is a cult
I think they can select from a more diverse range of people so that the teachers match the areas where the students come from.
What makes you most happy at work?
Interacting with students and fellow teachers.
Seeing my students bring me joy!
I like working with the students and seeing them grow.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
There is no communication and we find out things at the last minute
Over worked, not enough time
The administration needs to review why they lose half their staff every year and whether this is really benefitting students and their families.
Lack of standardization. Change of direction every year.
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