Mentor Coach- Hawthorne

Position: Mentor Coach- Hawthorne Location
Location: Jenks

The Mentor Coach at Tulsa Educare is responsible for providing our Education staff instructional leadership through the design, delivery and coordination of intensive professional development; facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and supervising teachers and teaching teams. Tulsa Educare is seeking a Mentor Coach who will make the commitment to perform with integrity and model these essential qualities:

Self-motivated, dependable and physically able to perform tasks in various environments

Independent and creative thinker

Ability to quickly adapt to changes, demands and initiatives

Commitment to providing outstanding customer service

Strong oral and written communications skills

Practice effective team behavior and demonstrate effective interpersonal skills with a diverse audience

Qualified (and not prohibited) to work around children

Legally authorized to work in the United States Essential Functions The functions outlined in this job description are examples of the general nature of those performed by employees in this position. Any combination of these functions and responsibilities may be performed. The list is descriptive only and should be used for no other purpose. Management retains the right to revise job functions at any time.

These functions are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.

Promote a culture of innovative collaboration practices with a continuous focus on improving child learning and life experiences

Actively engage with classroom happenings, spending at least 8 hours a week in classrooms completing observation and coaching

Lead the design, implementation and coordination of intensive, embedded professional development to build and enhance core competencies of the education staff through:

Coaching – Implements with teaching team a predictable schedule of coaching to support their implementation of core competencies and evidence-based instructional practices through a cyclical process of observation, goal-setting, action plan implementation and reflection

Team Lesson Planning – Schedules and protects time for regular collaboration among the teaching teams to review data, reflect on child progress and teaching practices, and plan for interactions, experiences, instruction and family engagement

Communities of Practice - Facilitates CoP for teaching teams to engage in shared inquiry, critical dialogue and reflection to improve professional and educational program practice

Reflective Supervision - Provides teaching team with a predictable schedule of reflective supervision to support, develop, and evaluate their performance through a process of inquiry that encourages their understanding and articulation of the rationale for their own practices

Focused Professional Development – Create and facilitate school-wide, content-specific professional development for Education staff to cultivate excellence in teaching and learning to make our vision a reality

Lesson Study – Review documentation with teaching team members. Reflect, explore, study, research, and plan collaboratively possible ways to elaborate and extend classroom studies/investigations using materials, activities, tools and other resources

Lead and coordinate our education program to include the implementation of core features and evidenced-based practices:

Research-based strategies to drive program practices; responsive, intentional and developmentally appropriate curriculum and experiences to support child learning and develop; using child and classroom data to inform lesson planning

Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration including:

Participation in Family/Child Reviews (FCRs);
Research Program Partnership meetings with our Local Evaluation Partner (LEP) and multi-disciplinary team meetings to support the planning and implantation of individualized instruction for children with development differences and for children displaying challenging behaviors

Responsible for supervising teachers and teaching teams to include:

Creating ongoing relationships with all members of the teaching team; providing direction and feedback to teachers and teaching teams; communicate effectively and openly, and demonstrate strong sense…