Education Coach

JOB SUMMARY

The Education Coach will provide consultation, coaching, mentoring, and training to Head Start staff to support school readiness. Using a Practice‑Based Coaching model in conjunction with a research‑based curriculum, the Coach will ensure alignment with school‑readiness goals, Texas Pre‑K Guidelines, and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework. Various strategies—including side‑by‑side coaching, co‑teaching, instructional planning, and reflective feedback—will be used with teaching staff.

The Coach will collaborate with the Education Coordinator to develop and revise policies, procedures, and service plans per agency policies and Head Start Program Performance Standards, NAEYC standards, and licensing Minimum Standards. Traveling between Family Service sites is a requirement for this position.

• Reports to:
  
  Manager, Coordinator, or other designated staff.
• Directs:
  May supervise students and volunteers.
• Other:
  Represents the agency in the community for human service, training, collaboration, networking, and marketing. Works cooperatively with all staff to accomplish the mission, goals, objectives, and performance measures of the program and agency.

• Healthcare and Human Services Environments:
  Ability to explain issues and advancements in the healthcare and human services industries.
• Achievement Orientation: A concern for surpassing a standard of excellence, whether by surpassing one’s own past performance, an objective measure, outperforming others, or challenging new goals.
• Community Orientation:
  Ability to align one’s own and the organization’s priorities and assess and address community needs in an evidence‑based and holistic manner, addressing the social determinants of health through a trauma‑informed lens.
• Professionalism and Ethics:
  Demonstration of ethics and sound professional practices, and stimulation of social accountability and community stewardship.
• Interpersonal Understanding:
  Ability to understand other people, accurately hear and interpret unspoken or partially expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns, including cross‑cultural sensitivity through a trauma‑informed care lens.

• Community and Customer Service:
  Increase client access, enrollment, and satisfaction of program resources by creating wraparound services, recruitment, and surveying strategies.
• Internal Processes:
  Use agency and program data to track clients through different agency programs to gauge resiliency and outcomes of participating families.
• Learning and Growth:
  Strengthen staff and client well‑being by addressing the social determinants of health:
  Economic Stability, Education, Health and Healthcare, Neighborhood Supports, Social and Community Engagement.

• Provide training, mentoring, and coaching in all areas of a developmentally appropriate early childhood classroom. Training may require videotaping of coaching practices and interactions with teachers in the classroom.
• Devote attention, ensure compliance, and insert innovative processes in the area of quality improvement of early childcare centers.
• Provide evaluations, observations, and assessments to teachers. Support teachers in analyzing and using data collected from Child Plus and other databases. The Coaching Log will be used for follow‑up and feedback after each visit.
• Research literature and existing local, state, and national programs to obtain information on best practices, new training, and education methods, and incorporate these findings in coaching teaching staff.
• Use required coaching and instructional tools such as the Curriculum Fidelity Checklist and Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) observation to monitor teacher’s progress and set goals for improvement.
• Collaborate with other city‑wide Early/Head Start coaches to provide opportunities for enhancement, participation, discussion, and education matters relevant to coaching.
• Assist in educating target groups, policymakers, leadership, and the community regarding specialized education, awareness, and program issues.
• Coordinate and implement…