Education Coach

Mission Statement

AVANCE walks alongside children and families to achieve social and economic justice.

The Education Coach collaborates with the Assistant Director of Early Learning and is responsible for assisting in achieving the organization’s strategic vision and innovation around ECE. This role is key to ensuring successful and high-quality ECE classrooms throughout the program, as well as planning and collaborating with AVANCE staff to ensure full implementation of all aspects of AVANCE’s early learning system, policies/procedures, and tools, with the goal of ensuring high-quality Early Childhood education services are provided to program participants including Center Based, Family Childcare providers and Home
- Based Families.

• Support the Senior Director of Early Learning, Accessibility, and Mental Health and Assistant Director of Early Learning in implementing AVANCE’s strategic vision for high-quality early childhood education.
• Ensure alignment of coaching, classroom instruction, and home visiting practices with program goals, state/federal standards, and curriculum fidelity
• Assist with training, coaching, and professional development initiatives to build the capacity of education staff and ensure instructional quality and compliance.
• Implement and monitor the quality of classroom environments and teaching practices, using tools such as CLASS, TS GOLD, FCCERS, ITERS, TPOT, TPITOS, and fidelity checklists in collaboration with Early Learning Leads/Education Coaches/ECE’s/Family Childcare providers/Home Educators.
• Provide guidance and feedback to ensure all early learning components—including school readiness goals, dual language support, and developmental screenings—are effectively implemented.
• Supports Early Learning Leads in facilitation of child assessment data review at center/FCC partners and classroom level with teaching staff on a monthly basis.
• Tracks, monitors, and ensures their coaching caseload goals and objectives are achieved.

• Collaborates and coordinates with other service area leadership and initiatives to ensure:
• Timely and appropriate support for children with specific needs
• Parent education and outreach activities are aligned with program goals
• Required number of socialization events are scheduled, implemented and well attended.
• Participates in team and 1-1 meetings, regularly scheduled and as needed, to ensure coordination of services across the Early HS/Head Start program, CCP, and Home Base programs.
• Actively participate in the Head Start community, including staff meetings, mandated training, committee meetings, and other program-wide functions as needed, including some evening activities.

• Support documentation of implementing coaching and training activities, adhering to AVANCE’s existing systems (GoEngage, Creative Curriculum Coaching Fidelity Tool, Paylocity, etc.) whenever applicable.
• Complete monthly reports on area activities and progress toward goals with recommended modifications to plans, submit to the Assistant Director of Early Learning as scheduled.

• Meets with assigned staff at least monthly or as needed to provide coaching (including verbal and written feedback), identify and resolve problems, manage projects, track goals, review work processes and procedures, and ensure adherence to Head Start performance standards.
• Monitors and analyzes child assessment data at the program and center level in collaboration with the Early Learning Lead, Assistant Director of Early Learning, ECE’s, Home Visitors, and Family Childcare providers.

• Plans in conjunction with the Early Learning Leads and Assistant Director of Early Learning to help implement comprehensive, differentiated and sequential professional development for education staff including PLC’s, CCM’s, and monthly professional development days.
• Provides individual and group support for coaching implementing educational initiatives
• Ensures program curriculum is implemented with fidelity.