Instructional Coach-Beacon Hill Middle School

Instructional Coach

The Instructional Coach's job is to build the capacity of CSD teachers to consistently deliver engaging, culturally responsive, relevant, and challenging instruction to students that results in achieving positive academic and social-emotional learning growth. Instructional coaches accomplish this goal through coaching teachers' standards-based, data-driven instruction, purposeful instructional planning, culturally-responsive praxis, and professional learning designed to ensure all teachers master practices outlined in the CSD Instructional Framework.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Self develops deep mastery of the academic standards in the subjects/grades for which he/she coaches, and strong understanding of academic standards for all subjects/grades.
• Understands the implications of standards on what a student should know and be able to do and therefore what a teacher needs to know and be able to do to facilitate student mastery.
• Studies curriculum and assessment content and further develops understanding of how assessments map to content mastery, and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish mastery of the assessments.
• Studies culturally-responsive education and further develops understanding of how the socio-cultural context of education influences student outcomes and what is required of students and teachers to accomplish positive academic outcomes.
• Develops own knowledge of best practices in instructional methods and teaches teachers how to match particular strategies to gaps in student mastery.
• Manages personal calendar to allow for sufficient time to plan for high-quality instructional coaching, PLC facilitation and the completion of other core duties.
• Provides on-going content/curriculum-specific coaching using a structured coaching cycle (e.g., observations, student data analysis, debrief, practice/modeling, follow-up).
• Identifies and models the highest-leverage teacher skills and action steps to focus coaching.
• Supports teachers in implementing components of the school's instructional framework of EL, International Baccalaureate (IB), or other reform models.
• Utilizes a diverse range of culturally-responsive coaching strategies (co-teaching, co-planning, modeling, scripted practice, lesson internalization, data-analysis, etc.) to effectively develop teacher skill and accelerate student achievement.
• Links the work of PLCs to coaching (e.g., observing agreed upon next steps from PLC meeting, providing feedback on instructional practice discussed with PLC members).
• Collaborates with the district Teaching and Learning Team and other Instructional Coaches to promote consistency of educational experiences.
• Provides induction support for teachers in their first three years of teaching.
• Collaborates with peers, administrators, and district leaders to plan, organize, manage and evaluate culturally-responsive instructional materials.
• Participates in the planning of school budgets.
• Assists teachers in implementing modifications and accommodations.
• Interacts in a professional manner with all Local Education Agency (LEA) stakeholders.
• Models use of oral and written language that matches professional expectations.
• Builds the capacity of teachers to plan for, gather and utilize high-quality data to inform teaching and re-teaching during the lesson.
• Builds the capacity of teachers to gather, analyze and utilize formative and summative data to inform teaching, scaffolding, and re-teaching after assessments.
• Links data-analysis trends and next steps from PLC meetings to daily instruction via observation and high-quality feedback.
• Builds the capacity of teachers to strategically prepare and plan for upcoming units/modules.
• Builds the capacity of teachers to intellectually prepare and plan for upcoming lessons.
• Facilitates grade-level/department PLC meetings, ensuring that all teachers actively deepen content knowledge and knowledge of culturally-responsive curriculum/curricular resources.
• Facilitates or actively participates in instructional planning (unit or lesson), data analysis, skill building or other PLC structures that aligns with district initiatives and improves student…