Exceptional Children; EC Instructional Coach

Exceptional Children (EC) Instructional Coach

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Job Title: Exceptional Children (EC) Instructional Coach

Salary Schedule: Certified Teacher Salary Scale + Local Supplement + EC Supplement; CHCCS Salary Page

Reports To: Director EC Instructional Services

Salary Grade: Instructional Support

Work Location: Itinerant

FLSA Status: Exempt

Work Schedule: 10 Month

The Exceptional Children Instructional Coach will support teachers and students across grade levels, programs (K‑12, Students eligible for EC Services in general education as well as on the Adapted Curriculum), and subjects. The EC Instructional Specialist focuses on building strong partnerships to improve student outcomes and implement effective instructional practices for students with disabilities. Working collaboratively, the EC Instructional Coach enhances instructional practices within a student‑centered framework, aimed at increasing student engagement, achievement and narrowing the gap between current and grade‑level expectations of the NC Standard Course of Study or the NC Extended Content Standards.

The coach utilizes a student‑centered coaching model across content areas, leverages data to set goals, monitors progress, and supports teachers in delivering rigorous, differentiated instruction that meets the diverse needs of all students.

• Have experience with, or a willingness to learn, how to implement the core practices for coaching that focus on increased outcomes for all students.
• Organize and follow a consistent coaching calendar at each assigned school to support each teacher during the year, perform walkthroughs and fidelity checks in adapted curriculum classrooms, and facilitate student‑centered coaching cycles across grade levels and content areas.
• Analyze student data to facilitate, co‑teach, co‑plan and co‑assess lessons with teachers.
• Collaborate with teachers to create a culture of rigor, inquiry, and reflection by probing ideas and further pressing students to explore their intellect.
• Support teachers in increasing student engagement, designing instruction, or other expressed needs while aligning with the principles of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS) and the North Carolina Extended Content Standards.

• Meet with building administrators and Instructional teams to discuss coaching and its impact on student work; create professional relationships with all teachers built on trust and respect.
• Continually engage in reflective dialogue, model reflection and create opportunities for others to be reflective practitioners.
• Maintain a friendly, flexible, and collaborative disposition.
• Collaborate with CHCCS Instructional Services Division in providing professional development in specially designed instruction, service delivery and classroom management.
• Embed professional development for teachers in evidence‑based programs and/or practices to instruct students with disabilities in core literacy skills and foundational math skills.

• Conduct and facilitate professional learning based on adult learning theory; advocate for equitable access to resources and differentiated instruction for all students while fostering a collaborative, reflective environment that encourages continuous growth.
• Assist teachers in identifying barriers to literacy and mathematical learning that exist for individual students and design ways to remove these barriers to increase student skills.
• Proactively apply the latest research and evidence‑based practices to enhance instruction, collaborate on curriculum improvement, and promote student‑centered learning using data to refine strategies and support student achievement.

• NC Teaching License in Special Education.
• Bachelor’s degree in special education or elementary education;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• Preferred:
  Experience as reading specialist, math coach with proven results.
• 5 to 7 years of experience collaborating with diverse populations of…