Instructional Support Administrator

Fort Bend ISD - Instructional Support Administrator

Description/Notes: The Instructional Support Administrator serves as a district-level administrator partnering directly with principals at identified campuses to accelerate instructional quality and student achievement. This results-driven leader builds campus capacity through intensive coaching, data-driven instruction cycles, and systematic improvement of Tier 1 teaching practices to help campuses meet or exceed state accountability standards.

• Data-Driven Instructional Leadership
• Support and monitor data meetings with principals, instructional liaisons, and teachers to analyze student performance, identify instructional gaps, and plan responsive next steps.
• Monitor classroom implementation of district recovery and intervention materials to ensure fidelity of use, alignment to standards, and responsiveness to student needs.
• Conduct instructional rounds and learning walks to assess rigor, engagement, and alignment between instruction and assessment and provide immediate, actionable feedback.
• Partner with principals to reinforce instructional non-negotiables such as lesson internalization, checks for understanding, academic discourse, and differentiation.
• Model and co-plan lessons that demonstrate effective Tier 1 instruction and differentiation for diverse learners.
• Support and monitor Professional Learning Teams (PLTs) to ensure pre-work, data discussions, and action steps are aligned to instructional priorities and result in measurable improvement.
• Ensure alignment between standards, assessments, and daily instruction.
• Coordinate targeted intervention and acceleration structures aligned to universal screeners, benchmark assessments, and common formative assessments.
• Support implementation of MTSS/RTI frameworks with fidelity. Support high-functioning PLTs by reinforcing protocols, agendas, and essential artifacts such as unit plans, exemplar student work, and error analysis.
• Teacher & Leader Capacity Building
• Coach teachers, instructional coaches, and assistant principals through structured coaching cycles including pre-briefing, observation, targeted action steps, practice, and follow-up.
• Provide targeted coaching to liaisons and PLT facilitators to strengthen pre-work quality, data analysis, and follow-through on instructional actions.
• Deliver professional learning on effective use of recovery modules, data-driven reteach strategies, and standards-based planning.
• Calibrate observation and feedback practices with campus administrators to promote consistency and instructional coherence across classrooms.
• Facilitate professional development on standards-based planning, formative assessment, classroom management, and differentiation for English Learners and students with disabilities.
• Systems, Monitoring & Accountability
• Maintain an instructional monitoring system tracking recovery-module fidelity, observation trends, and progress toward campus improvement goals.
• Support data and recovery review processes following assessments and document instructional impact using student work, trend analyses, and classroom evidence.
• Prepare concise progress reports summarizing patterns, coaching themes, and next steps for campus and district leadership.
• Support compliance with federal and state instructional requirements including ESSA, IDEA, etc.
• Monitor campus assessment calendars, common assessments, and item banks for alignment and fidelity and support item analysis and reteach planning.
• Support implementation of Campus Improvement Plan instructional strategies by documenting evidence of impact and adjusting supports as needed.
• Culture & Campus Climate
• Partner with principals to cultivate a safe, orderly, and inclusive learning environment with high expectations for all students. Reinforce systems that maximize instructional time through consistent intervention, recovery routines, and effective classroom structures.
• Promote a culture where fidelity monitoring, coaching, and feedback are seen as tools for growth and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate on strategies to improve student attendance, on-track metrics, and positive behavior supports that contribute to instructional success.
• District Collaboration & Support
• Collaborate with district departments including Teaching & Learning, Organizational Development, Multilingual Programs, Assessment & Accountability, and Special Education to ensure coordinated instructional support.
• Provide actionable feedback to district liaisons and facilitators to strengthen instructional resources, pacing, and alignment of professional learning to classroom implementation.
• Maintain a visible presence on supported campuses through regular classroom visits, coaching cycles, and participation in data meetings.
• Travel regularly among assigned campuses and maintain a flexible schedule to support before- and after-school professional learning.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support district goals and accelerate student…