Director of Implementation, Design, and Coaching - ELA

At Leading Educators (LE), we know that excellent teaching is the most important driver of student success. The moment a student steps foot in the classroom, their opportunity to learn depends on how prepared their teacher is to translate complex content knowledge, standards, and their knowledge of that student into lessons that help them learn deeply and apply their thinking to the real world.

That’s a big lift, and it often happens alone. As a national nonprofit, we partner with school systems to overcome persistent instructional challenges, foster intentional collaboration and adult learning by design, and ignite new possibilities through systemic solutions at the intersection of teaching, talent, and technology.

We work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with educators at every level of the education system to strengthen their instructional and leadership practices, bring a vision for excellent instruction to life with consistency, and ensure every student reaches their full potential.

Leading Educators is seeking a Director of Implementation, Design, and Coaching – ELA to serve as the strategic lead driving instructional transformation across seven schools in the San Mateo-Foster City and Ravenswood City School Districts. In this role, you will own the full lifecycle of ELA implementation—from launch through measurable impact—while building the capacity of school and district leaders to sustain excellence in literacy instruction.

This is a hybrid leadership position that demands equal expertise in instructional coaching, professional learning design, and strategic client partnership.

• Own the end‑to‑end ELA implementation lifecycle across multiple schools, ensuring projects stay on track and maintain fidelity to high‑quality instruction.
• Navigate competing priorities, surface implementation risks before they derail progress, and make real‑time adjustments to keep projects on schedule.
• Translate data into actionable insights and communicate those insights clearly to diverse stakeholders, influencing how thousands of students experience literacy instruction.
• Design and facilitate job‑embedded professional learning cycles that stick, conduct learning walks that reveal truth, and debrief with precision so leaders see exactly what is working and what needs attention.
• Act as a thought partner to district leadership, surfacing opportunities and risks that emerge from school‑level implementation and contributing to strategic decisions that shape the partnership.
• Coach principals and teachers through difficult feedback conversations, design professional learning sessions that shift practice, and analyze student work data to refine instructional strategy.

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in education, instructional leadership, curriculum implementation, or district‑level instructional support.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex implementation efforts across multiple schools or at the district level.
• Proven track record designing high‑quality professional learning aligned to standards and measurable instructional outcomes.
• Direct experience providing coaching to school or district leaders and translating that coaching into observable changes in practice.
• Experience serving as a primary client or partner relationship owner within a district or multi‑school context, managing expectations and maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Experience managing and developing staff or team members, with clear responsibility for the quality of their execution.
• Practitioner‑level competency with artificial intelligence tools and a willingness to leverage them for efficiency and insight.
• Ability to travel regularly to school sites (typically weekly) within the San Mateo-Foster City and Ravenswood City School Districts, with occasional national travel for organizational events and professional development.

• Regular travel to schools within the Northern California Area:
  • San Francisco
  • South San Francisco
  • Oakland (ideal location)
  • San Mateo
  • East Palo Alto
  • Richmond
  • Albany
  • Newark, CA
  • San Leandro
  • Berkeley
  • Walnut Creek
  • San Jose
  • San Rafael
• National travel required for organizational retreats,…