Early Childhood Class Coach

Position Description:

• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach ensures young children receive highquality instruction. The Early Childhood CLASS Coach leads the development and improvement for teachers through planningmodeling observing and providing feedback.
• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach provides training and support to schools and early childhood sites.
• The Coach serves as the instructional expert and provides support on assessment curriculum highquality interactions and the science of teaching in early childhood education.

Scope of Responsibility:

• Provide highquality professional development around effective early education practices and the foundations of effective interactions in early education.
• Provide feedback engage in oneonone coaching and model best practices.
• Coordinate and support instructional leaders and teachers to fully implement high quality
• interactions.
• Identify where highquality interactions and builtin supports are not being maximized
• Model and teach new effective interactions with embedded instructional support strategies.
• Coach teachers on using highquality evidencebased assessments to determine the most
• effective interventions including full implementation of Teaching Strategies GOLD.
• Facilitate professional development for teachers.
• Observe teachers provide feedback and identify next steps to improve instructional support
• strategies for the purpose of support and not evaluation.
• Monitor and coordinate interventions conducted by the classroom teacher.
• Model and teach exemplar interactions when appropriate.
• Support lesson preparation using highquality curriculum.
• Model and support highquality interactions with students
• Analyze data identify trends and support teachers to adjust instruction based on data.
• Communicate a belief in all students abilities to become successful learners.
• Attend all required meetings and trainings.
• Communicate with leadership team on schoolwide curriculum progress.

Physical Involvement:

• Movement throughout early childhood and preschool classrooms is required most of each workday.
• Must be able to operate office equipment.
• Standing walking reaching bending and lifting up to 10 pounds is sometimes required. Ability to provide own transportation to schools work locations and meeting sites.
• Mobility skills necessary to access a variety of work locations including locations not on the ground floor.

Skills and Qualifications:
Successful candidates will be detailoriented independent selfstarters who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to raising student achievement and who have a record of high performance in challenging situations and will also demonstrate:

• Minimum of three 3 years teaching experience as a certified Early Childhood teacher
• Knowledge and experience with Frog Streets approach to instruction for young children
• Knowledge and experience with a CLASS approach to effective instructional support interactions
• Successful and documentable experience that impacted student achievement
• Strong knowledge of how young children develop and learn
• High degree of professionalism with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities while consistently demonstrating sound judgment and disciplined thinking
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to organize and motivate people and to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others
• Possess integrity initiative and good moral character
• Demonstrate ability to relate to students staff administration parents and community
• Possess desirable attributes of personality enthusiasm and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of working with diverse individuals at all levels to drive decisionmaking and results
• Ability to be visionary and strategic is essential.
• Understanding of regulations regarding the operation of Louisiana schools including but not limited to Bulletinsand 1508

Desirable Qualifications:

• Masters or advanced degree in Education preferred

Compensation:

• JP Schools offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience.
• JPSchoolsalso offers a competitive benefits package.