3rd Grade Teacher​/Multi-Classroom Leader stipend

3rd Grade Teacher / Multi-Classroom Leader ($10,000 stipend)

Summary:

An educator in the Multi-Classroom Leader™ role leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teaching residents in the same grade or subject to meet the standards of excellence. The leader establishes each team member’s roles and goals annually, determines how students spend instruction time, and organizes teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The leader co‑plans, co‑teaches, models, coaches, and gives feedback, while also teaching students part of the time.

The leader analyzes student learning data and changes instruction to ensure high‑growth learning for every child, focusing on small‑group teaching and tutoring, and is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team.

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for all students taught by the team.
• Establish methods and create instructional tools and materials used by team teachers in all classrooms.
• Set direction, verbally and with tools and materials, that clarify content and the teaching process.
• Lead the team to:
  • plan backward to align lessons, activities, and assessments using a high‑standards curriculum;
  • design and lead instruction that is enriched and personalized, prioritizing small‑group teaching, tutoring, and accelerated learning;
  • design assessments that accurately measure student growth;
  • prepare to deliver small‑group teaching and tutoring.

• Lead the team to:
  • hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious and measurable;
  • create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning;
  • establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport.

• Lead the team to:
  • hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable academic standards;
  • maximize student learning by incorporating small‑group teaching and tutoring;
  • identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers;
  • identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time‑management skills.
• Invest students in their learning using a variety of influence techniques.
• Incorporate questioning and discussion in teaching.
• Monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform engaging instruction and small‑group teaching.
• Communicate with students and keep them informed of their progress.

• Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills.
• Maintain regular communication with families, working collaboratively to design learning at home and in school, and encouraging a home life conducive to learning success.
• Organize and schedule team time to align with instructional vision, prioritize small‑group teaching and tutoring, and troubleshoot persistent learning challenges.
• Determine how students spend instructional time based on the strengths of all team adults.
• Allocate instructional process elements—lesson planning, minimal large‑group instruction, focus on small‑group instruction, individual interventions, data analysis, grading—among team members based on strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals.
• Allocate non‑instructional administrative duties among the team.
• Model instructional tasks to aid team development.
• Clarify and adjust team members’ roles, providing feedback, developmental advice, and assignments to develop their effectiveness.
• Participate in professional development opportunities at the school.

• Knowledge of subject matter being taught.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Valid teaching certificate.
• Prior evidence of high‑growth student learning in the relevant subjects (at least 1.1 average growth in EVAAS over the last 3 years).
• Ideally, experience successfully leading a team of adults to accomplish goals, though not necessarily as a formal leader.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and group effectiveness working with adults and students, including understanding and action to maintain relationships needed…