Instructional Coach - Elementary 2025 - 2026 School Year
Instructional Coach - Elementary 2025 - 2026 School Year
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Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations Real World Learning Creative Culture and Belonging.
Crossroads Charter Schools organization is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to sex race religion color national origin ancestry age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other factor prohibited by law.
All candidates must complete anapplication in order to be considered for open positions. Attach your cover letter resume and 4 professional references (include name phone and email) for review.
Job Description: Instructional Coach Elementary
Direct Supervisor:Principal or designee
School Summary:
At Crossroads Charter Schools we
- Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
- Interrupt the school to prison pipeline policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most atrisk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
- Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
- Nurture an open collaborative and trusting environment because the work is enormous deeply personal emotional and often difficult.
- Engage in ongoing jobembedded professional development through coteaching and coplanning
Position Summary:
The ideal candidate exemplifies excellent proficiency in the following:
- Constantly collaborating and effectively communicating with the leadership team
- Identifying systemwide strengths and areas of growth
- Managing and completing tasks both within and on the organization
- Creating goals and implementing action plans in order to achieve goals
- Maintaining a solutionsoriented and kidsfocused mindset
- Understanding of adult growth personalysis and differentiated teacher supports needed across varying teacher knowledge and experience
- Elevating student learning at all levels across all content areas and teacher proficiency levels by connecting teachers to the needed resources supports and/or training
Please provide a cover letter and at least 3 letters of reference.
Position Responsibilities:
The primary responsibility of our instructional coach is to train coach and offer support for teachers in implementing learnerdriven approaches based on the latest education research on best practices through onsite professional development. The instructional coach collaborates with staff to coplan codeliver and individualize instruction for all students in a class; work together creatively to accommodate special needs diversity and educational backgrounds of the students in the class; and overcome instructional challenges constructively. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both English language arts and math instruction. The instructional coach is a hardworking goaloriented and enthusiastic professional with excellent subject knowledge and a sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core State Standards.
This is a 10month position however it requires 10 extra days throughout the school year mutually scheduled with the principal. There is a $7000.00 stipend paid for the 10 extra days.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with building admin to execute on academic vision and goals
- Work with building administrators to create quarterly and semester academic goals
- Collaborate with teachers to identify share and coach best practices for reaching all students including students with disabilities ELL and other specialized needs.
- Provide educators professional learning opportunities to equip each teacher and school leader with the ability to use formal and informal student data to refine instructional strategies and plan and provide appropriate small group or individualized instruction and interventions.
- Assist the faculty in the data team process the creation of common formative assessments the ongoing review and refinement of curriculum and learning objectives and the implementation of the response to intervention (RTI) strategies.
- Help ensure the learning environment is dynamic and conducive to highlevel learning.
- Support educators with analyzing student performance examining students educational plans and needs and assess students high school college and careerreadiness.
- Provide teachers and administrators with professional learning on the use of student data including identifying trends and gaps in student mastery of content and how to develop targeted plans to address identified trends and needs.
- Research lessons articles innovative instructional practices and books in order to assist teachers in designing relevant learning experiences.
- Attend and participate in school leadership team meetings.
- Plan assist and implement professional development support digital curriculum implementation and model personalization strategies.
- Assist educators in making the critical shift to be a facilitator of student learning.
- Support the creation of personalized learning environments including modeling blended learning approaches and instructional strategies.
- Provide followup to classroom observations walkthroughs coaching and feedback to staff.
- Promote the schools educational programs through online resources and social media.
- Act in a professional and ethical manner at all times and comply with school policies procedures and expectations.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.
- All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established as part of the annual performance planning process or as the result of organizational planning.
Expected Salary One of your application questions will ask you to indicate your expected salary. To respond to the question please review the 10month Compensation plan to indicate your expected salary.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Education
- Valid Missouri teaching certificate
- Desire to continue professional development
- Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
- Demonstrated success in urban education
- Desire to continue professional development
- Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups including parents teachers staff volunteers and partners informed of critical issues activities and schedules.
- Excellent work ethic positive attitude flexibility and willingness to perform tasks assigned
- Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in the school environment and community.
- Must pass extensive background check.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job requires that the employee be able to: sit stand walk speak hear use hands fingers reach with hands and fingers; bend stoop lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop kneel crouch. Visual ability requires mono and color vision close vision distance vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus. May have to intervene in student fights or when students are escalated using MANDT training.
COMMUNICATION: Maintains communication with teachers other school personnel and parents/guardians to enhance cooperative action which will meet the educational needs of students.
Provides health services information and counseling in an effective and positive manner to enhance the health and wellness of the school community.
Completes accident/incident reports for students/staff.
Compiles data for statistical purposes.
Maintains confidentiality regarding educational records.
ORGANIZATION: Must be able to organize and prioritize work in a manner understandable to the leadership team. Maintains a daily log of school/staff visits and documentation.
Maintains the daily environment of the health office facility and supplies.
Utilizes existing technology effectively in the performance of duties.
Performs other related work as required.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or schedule form.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and analyze and interpret general professional journals technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports general curriculum and learning theories correspondence and protocols. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators staff parents students and the general public.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and is a standard acceptable level for this environment. Is directly responsible for students and staff safety work output and wellbeing.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES: Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students peers parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.
All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: Working Relationships in Addition to Supervisor:
Teachers Students Parents Volunteers Office Staff Support Staff Assistant Principals Principals District Leadership Team Central Office Team
All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: federal and state law requires all public school personnel to submit to and pass a criminal background check prior to employment by the school. Crossroads Charter Schools is required by law to exclude from employment any person who has pleaded to or been found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of the State of Missouri any other State of the United States or any other country whether or not a sentence is or was imposed.
Please be advised that Crossroads Charter Schools does not seek information related to the conviction of crimes unrelated to those described in this question. Your conviction of a crime not otherwise listed above is not an automatic disqualification from employment consideration. The school will consider the nature of the offense and the relationship between the offense and the position for which you are applying.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
