Bilingual Elementary Instructional Coach

Job Title

Bilingual Campus Level Instructional Coach/RTI

Full-time

210 Days

Campus Principal

See Teacher Pay Scale + $12,000 Stipend

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• Master’s Degree (Preferred)
• Valid Texas teaching certificate
• 5+ years of classroom teaching experience (Required)
• Demonstrated significant academic achievement with scholars

Wayside Schools is an open‑enrollment, tuition‑free PreK3-12th grade public charter school network that provides over 1,900 scholars across its four South Austin campuses with a rigorous education. Since 2012, Wayside Schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academic skills, intellectual habits and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four‑year colleges and universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and empower the families and communities to which they belong.

The instructional coach serves as a guide, collaborator, and consultant to support teachers’ professional growth and development, with the goal of improving scholar achievement across all content areas. This role provides teachers with strategies and resources aligned to content standards to enhance instructional practices and increase teaching and learning proficiency. Additionally, the instructional coach dedicates 50% of their time to working directly with teachers and scholars in Tier II and Tier III Response to Intervention (RTI), ensuring that scholars receive appropriate interventions, services, and supports, while modeling instruction, teaching small groups, and providing targeted support to meet student needs.

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills for building an environment with a common instructional focus
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate the ability to design and deliver quality professional development for administrators and teachers
• Demonstrate the knowledge of collaborative models for individual teachers and teams as they develop goals for growth
• Demonstrate knowledge of vertical and horizontal curriculum alignment
• Demonstrate ability to support work across grade levels in all content areas
• Previous coaching or teacher leadership experience and a strong commitment to continued personal growth
• Experience with the coaching cycle, including developing lessons with teachers, pre‑conferencing with teachers, modeling lessons with/for teachers, observing teachers, structuring activities with teachers designed to enhance instructional delivery in the classroom, and post‑conferencing with teachers
• Experience in research‑based instructional practices

• Plan and implement professional development opportunities based on an analysis of scholar performance indicators and aligned with current research
• Establish trust and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Coach teachers by developing lessons, pre‑conferencing, modeling, observing, structuring activities, and post‑conferencing designed to enhance instructional delivery
• Assist teachers with disaggregating and interpreting assessment data for all scholars, focusing on identified subgroup populations and planning effective instruction
• Conference with teachers using data to effectively inform instruction
• Positively impact overall scholar achievement through targeted coaching and professional development
• Participate in weekly scheduled campus professional development
• Collaborate with other curriculum & academic coaches to develop a comprehensive coaching program geared toward educator excellence and innovation
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Services are generally provided within a standard classroom environment
• Some movement throughout the classroom is necessary to facilitate learning (e.g., standing, walking, stooping, bending, sitting, kneeling)
• Light lifting of materials and other objects associated with a classroom environment is required (e.g., books, teaching aids, up…