Design and Coaching Specialist- Math

Position

Leading Educators is seeking a Design and Coaching Specialist to drive measurable improvements in high school math instruction across New York City schools. In this dual-focused role, you'll combine school-based coaching with instructional design to ensure our programming translates directly into stronger teacher practice and student outcomes.

You’ll provide direct coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, and school leaders while designing professional learning tools and resources tailored to each school's unique context and needs. Rather than treating design and coaching as separate functions, you'll integrate them seamlessly—using classroom observations, student work, and leadership data to inform both your coaching conversations and your professional learning designs. Your work will strengthen Professional Learning Communities, build distributed leadership, and create the conditions for sustainable instructional improvement at the school level.

Reporting to the Director of Implementation, Design, and Coaching, you'll work in close partnership to ensure that school-level implementation aligns with district priorities while remaining grounded in the realities of classroom practice. This is a role where your expertise, relationships, and commitment to excellence directly shape how students experience mathematics instruction.

Internal & External Candidate Final date to receive applications: Ongoing

• Providing high-impact coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, and school leaders focused on lesson internalization, student work analysis, goal-setting, and reflective improvement cycles?
• Designing and facilitating professional learning aligned to curriculum, standards, and observable instructional practice—adapting resources based on school context and district priorities?
• Analyzing student work, classroom observation data, and instructional artifacts to inform both coaching decisions and professional learning design?
• Building trusting relationships with school leaders and instructional teams while maintaining instructional credibility and reliability?
• Conducting classroom observations and co-observations to assess instruction and provide actionable, growth‑oriented feedback?
• Facilitating learning walks, grade team meetings, and Professional Learning Communities that strengthen instructional leadership capacity?
• Integrating design and coaching to create coherent cycles of learning that deepen teacher knowledge and shift practice?
• Analyzing ongoing evidence of student learning, teacher practice, and PLC leader development to monitor and refine program impact?

If you've answered affirmatively to these questions and meet the following prerequisites, we urge you to seize this opportunity.

• 7+ years of professional experience in education, including experience teaching, leading instructional practice, or supporting curriculum implementation
• HS Math content expertise required (comfort with MS standards), with deep knowledge of NYCPS K‑12 Mathematics Shifts and equitable acceleration strategies
• Demonstrated experience providing coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, or school leaders
• Experience designing and facilitating professional learning aligned to curriculum, standards, and observable instructional practice
• Experience leading learning walks and calibration routines using structured, content‑specific tools to monitor shifts in practice over time
• Demonstrated ability to build sustainability by developing distributed leadership and teacher leader pathways
• Ability to manage school‑based relationships with professionalism, reliability, and instructional credibility
• Practitioner‑level AI fluency: ability to identify appropriate use cases, apply AI to improve efficiency and quality, exercise judgment about responsible use, and integrate AI into existing workflows
• Ability to travel; based in New York City
• Authorization to work for any employer in the United States

• This position is based in New York City, NY and requires travel. The role includes local travel to schools and district meetings, as well as occasional national travel for organizational…