Regional Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership Lead

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Regional Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership Lead

MnMTSS is the statewide continuous improvement framework. COMPASS is the Collaborative Partnership to Advance Student Success and is a partnership between the Minnesota Service Cooperatives and the Minnesota Department of Education.

The Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership (CRIL) Lead is an MDE‑funded service cooperative employee who serves as a member of a Statewide CRIL Team and supports regional school leader development in the CRIL framework and instructional leadership.

The person hired as a CRIL Lead will be committed to developing school leaders in addressing historical and persistent inequities in educational opportunities and outcomes for students, especially students of color, students with disabilities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and understand MnMTSS as an equity‑focused framework through which these inequities can be addressed. The person hired for this position will also have strong instructional leadership skills and experience developing school leaders to become strong equity‑focused instructional leaders.

The CRIL Lead will have demonstrated an understanding of the CRIL framework, the MnMTSS framework, high‑quality core and foundational instruction and school climate, and the ability to coach leaders to continuously improve their districts and schools towards a more equitable and excellent system.

• Support the development, curation, and refinement of guidance, professional learning cohorts and series, coaching frameworks, and other resources based on the CRIL framework quadrants:
• Critically Self‑Reflects on Leadership Behaviors
• Develops Culturally Responsive Teachers
• Promotes Culturally Responsive/Inclusive School Environment
• Engages Students, Parents, and Indigenous Contexts
• Support the development, curation, and refinement of guidance, professional learning cohorts and series, coaching frameworks, and other resources for developing district and school leaders to be instructional leaders focused on ensuring access to high‑quality tier one instruction and layers of support for all students and foundational safe and welcoming school climate and layered supports for all students within the MnMTSS framework.
• Provide internal professional development to other statewide regional teams in the areas of culturally responsive leadership and systems for high-quality instruction and school climate.
• Develop and continuously improve systems coaching capacity and use of effective technical assistance strategies by:
• Attending all professional learning provided for regional team members by MDE staff.
• Participating in coaching provided by MDE staff.
• Participating in communities of practice with regional colleagues to deepen understanding and skill in regional coordination.
• As requested by the state leadership team, actively participate in a state tier one instruction cross functional team.
• Provide support and coaching to internal staff to build capacity for implementing practices aligned to CRIL.
• Serve as a CRIL specialist on the regional COMPASS team. Collaborate with colleagues to ensure support provided across all content areas is aligned to CRIL and MnMTSS.

• Provide professional learning and coaching opportunities to:
• Support district and school leaders' development within the CRIL Framework.
• Support district and school leaders' development as instructional leaders with a specific focus on ensuring access to high‑quality tier‑one instruction and layers of support for all students, especially students from historically and persistently marginalized student groups.
• Support district and school teams in data collection and analysis to ensure data is being used effectively to inform instruction to support student growth and achievement across all Tiers.
• Support district and school leaders to plan for continuous improvement of Tier 1 instruction through engagement with COMPASS support such as regional content leads and professional development…