Associate Partner, Customized Coaching & Training (NYC Reads MTSS

Associate Partner, Customized Coaching & Training (NYC Reads MTSS)

NYC area (within 1 hour of ground travel-- car or train-- to NYC)

Location: NYC Area

Type: Full-Time

Team: Professional Education, Customized Coaching & Training

Start Date: Immediate

Summary:

Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay) is an accredited not-for-profit institution of higher education serving thousands of educators from across the country, from pre-service teachers to system-level leaders. Our mission is to ensure that all students are taught by excellent educators in order to build a more just world where every student has a clear path to a fulfilling life.

At Relay, we know that great schools require great leaders. As part of the Professional Education vertical at Relay, the Customized Coaching & Training team is deeply committed to developing school leaders with the skills and mindsets to lead their students to academic and character success. The Associate Partner is a unique and challenging opportunity to influence and lead in this work by providing critical coaching and on-the-ground support to sitting principals, principal supervisors, and chief academic officers in Relay Leadership Programs and Relay partner networks and districts.

This role will support campus and district leaders within a large NYCPS school district in implementing high quality MTSS structures and frameworks across all tiers of instruction including, but not limited to:
Special Education settings, Tier 2 and 3 groups, data-driven differentiation within Tier 1 classrooms, aligned to the Wit & Wisdom Curriculum.

Reporting to and in partnership with one of the Partners on the Customized Coaching & Training team, this role involves collaborating with colleagues on instructional preparation, serving as the main contact for school and district leaders through professional learning communities, coaching, and site visits, and delivering feedback to enhance leaders' outcomes-driven practices within the larger a codified MTSS model. NYC Reads aims to bring rich, challenging, grade-level texts into every classroom, through the implementation of approved HQIM curricula to reach the goal of all students being proficient readers.

Additionally, the Associate Partner may help shape content and lead sessions for professional learning events like the National Principal Academy Fellowship. This position offers the chance to join a dynamic Professional Education and Leadership Programs team, working alongside experts in school leader development.

In short, this is an outstanding opportunity to work in a growing educational leadership training program that is shifting the landscape in public education.

Role’s Contributions (Duties and Responsibilities):

The essential responsibilities of this position, while not limited to the following, will include:

Virtual & On-Site Coaching (approximately 50%)

• Provide exemplary coaching and successful partner support implementation by directly supporting a portfolio of partners in New York City.
• Use the baseline assessments annually to collaborate with local partners to set goals for coaching engagements
• Establish systems for quarterly progress monitoring and communication in alignment with the coaching engagement’s set goals; cooperate with local stakeholders to remove roadblocks to coaching implementation
• Provide individualized weekly or monthly coaching to principals, principal supervisors, and/or senior level instructional staff
• Facilitate regular data and video review/practice lab protocols as needed to achieve each engagement’s coaching goals
• Facilitate problem solving and action planning consultancies as needed to support content implementation
• Conduct network or district site visits as outlined in partner contracts to observe and gather data and lead site-based action planning to accomplish engagement goals
• Synthesize performance data, track cohort progress and identify gaps in network, district, and participant understanding, implementation, and outcomes

Design & Facilitation of Professional Learning (approximately 30%)

• Facilitate Relay leadership professional learning sessions during summer intensives, intersessions, and regional…