Anticipated Opening Instructional Coach
Anticipated Opening Instructional Coach
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Anticipated Opening Instructional Coach
Description:
The Instructional Coach will be responsible for supporting general education classroom teachers in grades K5 Special Education Teachers and ESL Teachers in the areas of Math English Language Arts Science and Social Studies by strengthening core Tier 1 instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. The Instructional Coaches will support differentiated coaching plans based on data and implementation cycles of highquality instructional materials.
Required Education/Experience:
- Valid Massachusetts Teacher certification
- Knowledge of standardsbased instruction
- Five years of teaching experience with strong evidence of exemplary Tier 1 instructional practices
- Experience providing professional development in a variety of topics to Teachers
- Ability to communicate effectively with students Teachers parents and administrators
- Demonstrate a commitment to excellence equity and high expectations for all students emphasizing building strengths that students bring to the teaching/learning process
- Ability to collect interpret and disseminate data to teachers to improve instruction and learning
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Preferred Education/Experience:
- Familiarity with the Everett Public Schools.
- EPS respects linguistic diversity and believes that candidates who speak another language(s) bring value to the districts culture and diversity.
Essential Duties:
Work with district and school leaders to create strategic plans for instructional improvement in specific grade levels and content areas with clear deliverables including but not limited to the successful implementation of highquality instructional materials
- Meet with principals assistant principals curriculum leaders special education leadership and teachers to analyze MCAS ACCESS DIBELS iReady and content area assessments to identify instructional areas of improvement for all students and groups of diverse learners and strategically plan coaching cycles with teams and teachers.
- Model differentiating instruction for and strategies that are content and activityspecific in order to increase studentcentered instruction districtwide.
- Model lessons and coteach for grade levels and individual teachers that focus on developing students higherorder thinking skills and complex tasks in conjunction with HQIM.
- Conduct observation/feedback cycles with teachers to improve Tier I instruction and highleverage lesson planning practices.
- Provide workshops and other professional development sessions on differentiating for subgroups of ELs such as Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) LongTerm English Learners (Levels 3 and 4) and Newcomers with high literacy in their native language.
- Consult with teachers to scaffold highleverage instructional practices including but not limited to increasing reading and writing with gradelevel standards reading comprehension strategies for gradelevel text and increasing classroom opportunities for sustained speaking activities and academic discourse.
- Complement the schoolbased and districtwide instructional foci and professional development by integrating coaching throughout the year to amplify these initiatives.
- Consult with teachers to evaluate formative and summative assessments gauge student progress in content classes and identify areas that need additional scaffolding and/or reteaching.
- Consult with Teachers to plan lessons using researchbased resources such as the WIDA Frameworks to create differentiated language objectives and appropriate scaffolds.
- Facilitate and manage shared resources for each content area that are teachercreated and can be universal in multiple classes such as anchor charts sentence frames revising and editing procedures scaffolds and rubrics.
- Coach teachers on increasing the use of instructional technology to replace paperbased activities increase higherorder thinking and incorporate digital skills into Tier 1 instructional settings.
- Facilitate common planning time by using district protocols to support analysis of student data looking at student work and planning for implementation of HQIM.
- Support schoolwide efforts to increase family engagement in literacy and mathematics connecting learning opportunities at home.
- Contribute to schoolwide initiatives and events that support increased academic achievement as assigned by the school principal and/or assistant principal.
- Perform such other duties and assume all other responsibilities that may be assigned by the superintendent assistant superintendent principal or assistant principal.
Working Time:
The Instructional Coach will work 184 days
Salary:
Salary for this position will be in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Everett School Committee and the Everett Teachers Association.
The Everett Public Schools in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies does not discriminate in its programs facilities or employment or educational opportunities on the basis of race color age criminal record (inquiries only) disability homelessness sex/gender gender identity religion national origin ancestry sexual orientation genetics or military status and does not tolerate any form of retaliation or biasbased intimidation threat or harassment that demeans individuals dignity or interferes with their ability to learn or work.
Employment Type
Full-Time
