Job Abstract

The ELA Instructional Coach leads the development and improvement for K-4 teachers via training, informal, non-evaluative observations, model lessons, feedback conversations, data analysis, and more. The Literacy Coach serves as the literacy content expert and provides support on curriculum, high-quality interactions, and the best practices for TC’s Readers and Writers Workshop.

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support grade-specific content areas, while adhering to grant requirements.
• Support staff with topics such as student engagement, higher-level thinking and questioning, and rigorous instruction.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with teacher cohorts.
• Work with building and district administrators and applicable school-based committees to assist in accomplishing goals, objectives, and create activities.
• Attend applicable professional conferences and workshops and turn-key information.
• Guide teachers in leading effective data-driven conversations with students and peers.
• Assist teachers and administrators with organizing, analyzing, and drawing actionable conclusions based on formative assessment data and classroom visits.
• Collaborate with teachers to implement the plan, teach, debrief model to refine best practices.
• Conduct classroom visits in a non-evaluative supporting structure, providing feedback on lessons and model lessons.
• Attend consultant training, grade-level meetings, building meetings, and coaching professional development.
• Utilize current district data (LinkIt, F&P, common assessments) to drive instructional needs.
• Assures cohesion in between consultant visitations.
• Work with the leadership team in the creation of the school’s professional development plan with specific, measurable, and attainable benchmarks for teacher and student performance.
• Identify, design, and implement additional professional development during in-service days.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned by the assigned supervisor.

Term: 10-month position

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 highly effective years of experience as a certified ELA teacher or Coach
• Proven results when working with struggling readers and writers
• Strong knowledge of how children learn to read and write
• Knowledge and experience working with the Readers and Writers Workshop model
• Bilingual, English/Spanish preferred; not required
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
• Knowledge of grade-level standards
• Ability to disaggregate, interpret, and analyze assessment data
• Ability to develop and deliver training to adult learners