Instructional Coach; SY

Overview

Who We Are:

Waukegan Community Unit School District No. 60 serves nearly 15,500 students in preschool through grade 12 and is located halfway between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. The District has 1 early learning center, 15 elementary schools, five middle schools and a high school program divided between two 9th – 12th grade campuses. The District encompasses portions of Waukegan, Beach Park and Park City.

Why We Do This Work:
The Waukegan Community Unit School District No. 60 has set an ambitious agenda for change, guided by the belief that all children, regardless of circumstances, can achieve at high levels and academic gaps can and will be eliminated with the support of teachers who deliver engaging, relevant, and academically rigorous instruction that excites students and instills a love of learning in them.

What We Need:
Instructional Coach will provide job-embedded support within their assigned building(s) with administrators, classroom teachers, and student support personnel to increase student achievement using data informed practices. The Instructional Specialist will be service-driven and committed to providing strong instructional support for teachers. This individual will establish and implement a cycle of continuous data-driven professional learning at the school level. The Instructional Coach will be directly responsible to the building principal(s) of assigned buildings in collaboration with the Senior Officer for School Psychology and MTSS.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support building administrators, teams, and teachers with analyzing and using student data, to include but not limited to: state, district, and classroom-based assessments, academic progress reports, attendance and discipline records, and principal and teacher recommendations, to identify areas of strength, school-wide patterns, and target areas for improvement across all areas of academic and social/emotional instruction; identify instructional needs of students; set learning goals and targets;
  
  plan whole group and small group differentiated instruction; identify students in need of targeted intervention; and implement research-based instructional practices that support the continuous development of students’ language, literacy, mathematical and social-emotional knowledge and concept development for all students across all tiers
• Support school administrators with the development of a school-wide schedule that creates sufficient time and intensity of targeted intervention and support services without loss of core instructional time, prioritizing time and resources based on students with greatest need
• Meet regularly with building administration, building-based instructional leadership teams, and Grade- and/or Content-Level PLC teams to report on instructional practices and progress, facilitate the problem-solving process, and plan “next steps” to maximize student growth and school improvement
• Support building administration and classroom teachers with scheduling and oversight of universal screening/benchmark assessments, diagnostic assessments, and progress monitoring utilizing valid and reliable assessment measures to evaluate student response to instruction and interventions
• Mentor and coach building staff in the areas of instructional best practices and data-based problem-solving
• Provide job-embedded professional development and support to building administrators, teachers, student support personnel and school-based teams to facilitate implementation of instructional best practices, problem solving and multi-tiered systems of support. Job-embedded professional development and support activities may include observation and feedback, modeling, and other supportive assistance necessary to implement instructional best practices, data-based decision-making and the problem solving process
• Support the implementation of technology-enriched instruction and classroom environments
• Prepare and present regularly scheduled data reports detailing student achievement and growth to school and district administration
• Work with the…