Lead Coach, District (Internal Candidates Only), Multiple Positions [SY 2025-2026]

Lead Coach District (Internal Candidates Only) Multiple Positions SY 2025-2026

About Salem Public Schools where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4000 students in 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged globally connected and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging equity and opportunity in everything we do. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students regardless of ability economic status gender/gender identity language race/ethnicity sexual orientation or other backgrounds. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at Lead Coach Position:

Salem Public Schools is committed to empowering educators and fostering structures that prioritize distributed leadership. Lead Coaches are a critical component of the Academics Department and are members of the Academics Team. SPS is seeking experienced Salem coaches to serve as Lead Coach for the duration of one academic yearto perform the following duties during the first and Fourth Mondays monthly from 8-12 at Central Office:

Lead Coach Positions and Responsibilities

Pk-5 Literacy

• Develop agendas plan and facilitate content coach meetings aligned with district priorities
• Create/monitor standards landscape
• Monitor MCAS STAR and DCA data
• Coordinate DCA creation naming and sharing between educators and technology department
• Communicate information from the academics team to other math coaches
• Facilitate building based work related to PRISM
• Ensure communication/consistency around district assessments (DCAMCAS STAR/CBMs data required for PRISM)

Pk-5 Math

• Develop agendas plan and facilitate content coach meetings aligned with district priorities
• Create/monitor standards landscape
• Monitor MCAS STAR and DCA data
• Coordinate DCA creation naming and sharing between educators and technology department
• Communicate information from the academics team to other math coaches
• Provide feedback and contribute to the execution of logistics for professional development and coaching across grade levels in the content area in collaboration with the Academics Team Directors / Executive Director and partners.
• Ensure communication/consistency around district assessments (DCAMCAS and STAR)

Science

• Develop agendas plan and facilitate Job Alike meetings aligned with district priorities
• Monitor assessment (MCAS/ACCESS/DCA etc) implementation communication and data as needed
• Contribute to the creation and revision of assessments (DCAs etc.) as needed
• Manage and monitor the standards landscape (k-12)
• Write or contribute to grant applications and implementation with stakeholders as needed
• Communicate information from Academics Team to Content Coach Team (for input and/or completed decisions)
• Collaborate with community stakeholders to plan equitable standards aligned learning experiences/field trips for all grades

Social Studies

• Develop agendas plan and facilitate Job Alike meetings aligned with district priorities
• Monitor assessment (MCAS/ACCESS/DCA etc) implementation communication and data as needed
• Contribute to the creation and revision of assessments (DCAs etc.) as needed
• Manage and monitor the standards landscape (k-12)
• Write or contribute to grant applications and implementation with stakeholder as needed
• Communicate information from Academics Team to Content Coach Team for input and/or completed decisions
• Interface with NewsELA Proquest and other curricular products
• Support implementation of Civics Action Projects

Pk-12 ELD

• Support in planning and facilitating monthly ELD Job-Alike
• Monitor ACCESS testing and serve as a point person for ML Coaches and teachers during testing
• Monitor ACCESS WIDA Model DCA and STAR data
• Collaborate with content coaches to ensure SEI strategies are incorporated across all content areas
• Align progress monitoring for students not meeting ACCESS benchmarks
• Create writing portfolio exemplars for the ML department
• Participate in SEI learning walks

Early Learning

• Develop agendas plan and facilitate PreK coach meetings for work with SPS/community partners
• Communicate information from the academics team
• Raise PreK specific information/data to the academics team
• Track PreK assessment data and communicate this to stakeholders
• Plan and implement professional development for the year
• Work with the literacy coach team for PRISM alignment PreK-3
• Align and implement components of PRISM
• Ensure communication/consistency around district assessments

6-8 (any content)

• Monitor assessment (MCAS/ACCESS/DCA/STAR/etc) implementation communication and data as needed
• Communicate about the creation and revision of assessments (DCAs etc.) to CMS coaches
• Communicate about how to manage and monitor the standards landscape (6-8) to CMS coaches
• Communicate information from Academics Team to other CMS coaches for input and/or completed decisions

Lead Coach Opportunities Include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop additional lenses to provide input and evaluate and refine systems to apply to future opportunities
• advocating for all students across all schools in district
• advocating all teachers in all content areas across the district
• representing instructional priorities of individual schools across the district
• Cross-functional input learning action steps; breaking down of silos
• Gain access to district decision makers for more direct and timely action steps
• Protected time to visit other schools
• Learning from external and high quality instructional partners by participating in district level planning meetings
• Gain access to district level data available only to District Leadership
• Hours/guidance for additional licenses

Leadership Competencies Developed in this Role:

Technical Competencies:

• Communicating district messages/priorities with content and building teams
• Ensuring vertical alignment of content and standards
• Analyzing data relevant guidance laws district priorities and values to drive action steps
• Managing grants
• Developing systems to manage all components of the position

Adaptive:

• Instructional vision planning that balances the uniqueness of schools and their autonomy with district initiatives and priorities
• Calibration with district leaders to influence districtwide decisions through research data and experience
• intersectionality
• persuade without a level of authority learn to communicate decisions and information that can be polarizing in ways that honor voices holds expectations and eases concerns and anxieties respecting the decision without personal interjection
• Advocacy through representation of the teams consensus outside of the room as a single POV
• curating community builders and facilitation moves (to build community of learners among coaches)

Essential Attributes:

• Holds an unwavering belief that every student and teacher in Salem can grow and succeed.
• Skilled in providing equitable access to the curriculum particularly in underserved populations.
• Able to work collaboratively and flexibly as part of a team.
• Has a strong work ethic is self-directed and has the ability to work independently.
• Self-reflects and accepts feedback with a growth mindset.

Job Requirements:

• Current coach in Salem Public Schools
• Massachusetts educator certification
• SEI endorsement

Applicant Process

Interested candidates should send a letter of interest to Kim Talbot: .

The letter should detail why you are interested in being a lead coach and why you would be a good fit for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identity sexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship status veteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.