Instructional Coach

Instructional Coach

Starting wage: $10,583.60+ annually (based on experience). This position is part time 0.2 FTE (8 hours/week).

Our mission is to inspire and prepare every child, every day, by providing relevant, engaging, and innovative learning experiences in and out of the classroom.

Our vision is to be a high performing district of choice that reflects the cultures of our diverse community.

Essential skills, duties, and responsibilities include the following:

• Coaches the educational environment to create conditions for students' emotional development, self-concept, and social competence.
• Coaches others to establish student/educator relationships as a partnership.
• Develops a sense of school connectedness and belonging through the development of genuine caring, nurturing, and supportive relationships.
• Utilizes restorative practices to emphasize community-building and the development of belonging and acceptance.
• Coaches educational experiences to create conditions where educators and students combine knowledge of learner interests, learner development, and academic and social-emotional learning standards.
• Coaches others to adapt and supplement curriculum as needed.
• Analyzes and leverages student data to determine coaching cycles.
• Coaches others to provide students with assessment opportunities to demonstrate competency and proficiency of essential standards.
• Coaches others to provide opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding of standards in multiple formats and media.
• Coaches equity to support educators to utilize a student-centered approach to teaching by which students' unique cultural strengths are identified and nurtured.
• Collaborates with site and district leadership, instructional teams, and other stakeholders to address systemic challenges and implement school-wide initiatives.
• Develops an environment where coaching thrives by fostering vulnerability and collaboration through building relationships and trust.
• Effectively communicates with stakeholders in multiple contexts.
• Partners with administrators to conduct needs assessments to identify areas for professional growth and development among educators.
• Designs and delivers targeted professional learning opportunities, workshops, and coaching sessions to address identified needs.
• Possesses knowledge and application of a range of coaching approaches and the innovation or practice on which they coach.
• Facilitates coaching conversations using a coaching cycle that promotes reflection, challenges assumptions, and pushes for instructional growth.
• Facilitates change by analyzing data and systems for the conditions of change; supporting educators to develop action plans and goals that include evidence based, high quality educational practices implemented with fidelity; generating productive conflict; and expecting, attending to, and mitigating resistance to change.
• Promotes reflective practices by engaging in professional learning, developing emotional intelligence, and seeking and applying feedback for self-improvement.

Education and/or experience:
Bachelor's degree in education or a core subject area with coursework that leads to licensure in the content area at an appropriate age level.

Physical attributes:
Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, operate a computer, hand-held learning devices, and other office equipment, reach with hands and arms, and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Certificates, licenses:
Must possess and maintain or be eligible to hold a current Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction license at the level and the content they are teaching.

Physical requirements:

Shall complete a physical examination as required by Wisconsin Statute 118.25. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.