About This Role
This role involves supporting Assistant Principals for Instruction and school leaders in integrating research and evidence-based practices into secondary classrooms. The coach will provide professional learning opportunities, focusing on literacy and numeracy, to enhance instructional effectiveness and build school-level capacity.
Responsibilities
- Support implementation of the District’s coaching model
- Provide individual and group professional learning opportunities to the Assistant Principal for Instruction (API) and school leaders to expand and refine their understanding of research- and evidence-based effective instruction, particularly in literacy and numeracy
- Communicate and demonstrate research- and evidence-based instructional practices that result in building capacity at the school level
- Assist the API and administrators in making sound instructional decisions based on assessment data and culturally responsive practices
- Provide support to the API and administrators in the disaggregation, analysis, and use of school, grade level, teacher, and student data as a tool to improve instructional practices
- Support the API in implementing district-required interventions, particularly in literacy and numeracy
- Support the API in the identification and acquisition of instructional materials to support effective classroom instruction, particularly in literacy and numeracy
- Assist the API in the review and analysis of lesson plans and classroom instruction to ensure standards-based instruction and assessment, particularly in literacy and numeracy
- Assist the API in efforts to support implementation of common formative assessments
- Create positive relationships with the API and administrators
- Support the API through modeling, over-the-shoulder coaching, co-creation of professional learning experiences for teachers, co-planning for PLCs, co-leading professional learning opportunities and PLCs, co-review of lesson plans and assessments, and co-observation experiences with the goal of gradual release to build the school-based instructional coach’s capacity
- Engage the API in inquiry and reflective practice to determine areas of need and to co-design solutions to address areas of concern
- Support the API in innovation and the integration of technology into classroom instruction
- Respond to inquiries and concerns regarding professional learning needs and coaching support
- Collaborate with other district instructional coaches to ensure consistency in coaching support and messaging
- Use computers to gather, organize and present information and to prepare records, reports and correspondence
- Operate and maintain computers, digital displays, printers, various peripheral equipment, modem, scanner, audio-visual equipment, calculator, telephone, copier, fax machine, vehicle, in the LEIR area, etc.
