Instructional Coach

Instructional Coach

Salary Range: $79,468-$131,654/annually

Length of Appointment:  School Year

Calendar: Full Time / Full Year

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 50,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 121 schools in the city of San Francisco every year. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose, and that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, and equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile.

Every day in our quest to achieve this mission we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.

The SFUSD community is unified by our Core Values:

• Student-centered:
  We put students’ needs first
• Fearless:
  We persist through challenges
• United:
  We celebrate and build on each other’s strengths
• Social Justice:
  We stand with those most vulnerable in our community
• Diversity-driven:
  We respect and seek to understand each person

We are also inspired by Vision, Values and Guardrails which captures our aspirations and vision for the future of public education in San Francisco. Alongside the District’s strategic plan SFUSD is reimagining how public education will change over the next decade to meet the dynamic future of San Francisco. As a CORE district, SFUSD is also a leader in critical systems change for more comprehensive school accountability and innovations that help strengthen the instructional core, which is the foundation of our strategic plan and Vision 2025.

We want talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission, steeped in equity, and who are motivated to unleash our children’s potential. We want people who are strong collaborators, skilled communicators, and problem solvers who are comfortable in a community of continuous learning.

• Support classroom teachers to set instructional goals and implement comprehensive Tier 1 instruction
• Support the continued implementation of math and language arts curricula
• Coach teachers towards improved student outcomes through formal coaching cycles
• Provide instructional guidance to classroom teachers, including co-planning and co-teaching lessons and units and modeling lessons
• Maintain coaching logs to monitor individual and group progress of implementation initiatives

• Facilitate the once monthly Aligned PD with staff (elementary)
• Design and implement professional learning experiences among teachers to employ a range of resources: analysis of lessons, tasks, videos, student work, data, peer observation, and common readings such as current research from the broader community
• Support the integration of educational technology to support literacy and math outcomes
• Cultivate strong and cohesive professional learning communities to develop a culture of collaboration and adult learning

• Elementary School Instructional Coaches:
  Participate in Instructional Leadership teams and facilitate grade level teams in the implementation of new instructional materials and Common Core State Standards.
• Middle School Instructional Coaches:
  Co-lead Instructional Leadership teams (with site administrators) and co-facilitate department teams (with department leads).
• Engage teachers in long and short term planning, reflect on evidence of student learning and support teachers in their practices
• Facilitate teacher work groups/common planning time or grade level team/department meetings and incorporate looking at student work or data in order to plan for and/or adjust instruction

• Support teachers/teams in administering, analyzing and using assessment data to inform decisions in planning instruction to meet students' diverse needs and progress monitoring results.
• Engage in identifying, supporting, and monitoring the achievement of focal students (AA, L, PI, EL, & SPED) with an emphasis on…