Multilingual Instructional Coach; SY

Boston Public Schools Central Office
- Multilingual & Multicultural Education
- Boston, Massachusetts Open in Google Maps

REPORTS TO: Director and/or Executive Director for the Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (OMME) Founded in 1647, Boston Public Schools (BPS) is the oldest public school district in the country. With approximately 50,000 students from over 114 different countries, nearly 9,000 employees (including 4,800 teachers) and an annual budget of $1.1 billion, BPS is the largest school district in Massachusetts and one of the most diverse as well.

About half of all BPS students are from a multilingual household.

Job Description:

Boston Public Schools seeks an exceptional and dynamic team of Multilingual Instructional Coaches (MIC) to support the new Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (OMME) - formerly the Office of English Learners. We are excited to re-vision the work of the new office inclusive of our priorities in serving our leaders and teachers with direct support fting the office’s primary focus from compliance to one that also focuses on quality teaching and learning will have a direct benefit and impact on our students’ growth, schooling experience and future outcomes.

The new Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (OMME) envisions that all multilingual learners feel a sense of belonging, joy for learning in a healing-centered learning environment so that they have the opportunity to be academically proficient in their home language and English and to graduate with the Seal of Biliteracy. In order to shift our work toward this vision, the office will center a multicultural framework with a social justice lens to address systemic racism and systems of power in all forms that perpetuate inequities for multilingual learners, their families and communities from anti-blackness, colorism, xenophobia, linguicism/glottophobia, islamophobia, implicit and explicit bias, bigotry of low-expectations, nativist microaggressions, colonizer language dominance, indigenous and spoken vs.

written language access, language loss, refugee status and linguistic imperialism.

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) is seeking to fill the position of Multilingual Instructional Coach to support the new Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (OMME) - formerly Office of English Learners. Multilingual Instructional Coaches (MIC) will work closely with the Bilingual language specific coaches to better serve the students with those languages and drive change at the school level. The Multilingual Instructional Coach (MIC) will report to the new OMME Director and/or Executive Director and will provide direct coaching and support to site-based principals, instructional leadership teams and individual teachers serving multilingual learners (SEI/SLIFE/Dual Language/Special Education/General Education).

The Multilingual Instructional Coach (MIC) will be expected to be at schools focused on the quality of teaching and learning for multilingual learners and supporting in increasing our native language and biliteracy instructional goals. The Multilingual Instructional Coaches (MIC) will support school staff in the implementation of the district’s Bilingual/Dual Language/Heritage programs and will support the infrastructure of the bilingual instructional models needed by working directly with teachers, school leaders, families and students.

The Multilingual Instructional Coaches (MIC) will also dedicate 10-20% of their time working on their own professional development and learning with role-alike colleagues from other district departments. Individually and collectively, Multilingual Instructional Coaches…