KIPP New Jersey | Miami reviews

High deductible health plan. No work/life balance. 8 hour school day where kids get one 15 minute recess. Large class sizes. Micromanaging is the only kind of managing. Encouraged/required to work through your preps. Must teach exactly their way. Lots of branded swag but low pay. Diversity means they want people of different colors to come force themselves into their mold- they do not want actual diversity. Required classroom management techniques are cruel to students from certain protected groups. PD for 3 hours every week, one full day every month, one week in the summer (two for new teachers). Weekly classroom observations no matter how long you've been teaching followed by a weekly meeting with your manager during your prep where there will always be something you did wrong. Cliquish admins. Asking for help will be used against you. Encouraged to inform on coworkers. Outdated curriculum. This is a "work hard play hard" and "we're a family" place. Problems or difficulties you try to resolve will be put back on you and used against you. Not much diversity in admin. Lots of students that need more support than CN be provided. PTO blackout days, a lot of them. No subs, strange coverage plans that create resentment when people use PTO.

1. Management is not structured properly. Originally began the school year with four schools under one school locator ID. Next year, two of the schools will be incorporated into the other two schools. 2. Micro-managing. Everything that you do is micro-managed from an erasable sheet outside your door so students can see what teaching skill you are trying to improve on (super unprofessional and ridiculous). 3. Coaches will give you immediate feedback in front of your students. This is unprofessional, embarrassing, and not what coaches should be doing. 4. Complete lack of discipline. Behaviors and incidents that would not be tolerated in 99% of public, private, and charter schools are tolerated or are minimally addressed. I have had students curse me out - a first in over a decade of teaching - and no disciplinary issues. 5. Misled. The marketing team deserves a raise. They present KIPP Miami as a revolutionary school that will change and impact the local community, but this is an alternative school full of issues ranging from managment to the classroom.