This part-time Instructional Coach position supports professional educators in implementing the Sun Prairie Area School District's Instructional Framework to ensure coherent instructional programs and high levels of student achievement for all students. The role involves coaching educators to create positive learning environments, design engaging educational experiences, and promote equity in teaching practices.
Responsibilities
Coach others to create conditions for students to acquire habits, skills, and attributes regarding emotional development, self-concept, and social competence
Coach others to establish student/educator relationships as a partnership, fostering emotional connection and trust
Develop a sense of school connectedness and belonging through genuine caring, nurturing, and supportive relationships
Utilize restorative practices to emphasize community-building and repair relationships when harm occurs
Coach educators to create challenging, aligned, and enduring learning experiences by combining knowledge of learner interests, development, and academic/social-emotional learning standards
Coach educators to adapt and supplement curriculum as needed
Analyze and leverage student data to determine coaching cycles and identify supplementary learning opportunities
Coach others to provide students with assessment opportunities to demonstrate competency and proficiency of essential standards in multiple formats and media
Provide prompt feedback aligned to school goals and promote educators' self-reflection
Support educators to provide students with prompt feedback aligned to learning targets and promote students' self-reflection
Support others to allow students to have real, significant, and authentic choices about their learning strategies and approaches
Coach educators to utilize a student-centered approach by identifying and nurturing students' unique cultural strengths
Support educators' understanding of diverse society and disparate outcomes based on race, ability, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, and language
Recognize own cultural lens and support staff in recognizing their own cultural lens on interpreting and evaluating students
Support educators to promote effective learning by responding to students' displays of culture with teaching moves that connect prior knowledge with new concepts
Work collaboratively to analyze data, design and engage in professional growth, and implement action plans for system-wide equity transformation
Lead by example and support educators in believing students must be recognized for their individuality
Support educators to foster students' success by building on individual strengths and removing barriers to learning
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Coach educators while utilizing an equity mindset, understanding historical and modern contexts of cultures, analyzing oppressive beliefs, disrupting deficit thinking, and challenging oppressive policies
Collaborate with site and district leadership, instructional teams, and other stakeholders to address systemic challenges and implement school-wide initiatives
Develop an environment where coaching thrives by fostering vulnerability and collaboration through building relationships and trust
Effectively communicate with stakeholders in multiple contexts
Partner with administrators to conduct needs assessments to identify areas for professional growth and development
Design and deliver targeted professional learning opportunities, workshops, and coaching sessions
Possess knowledge and application of a range of coaching approaches and the innovation or practice on which they coach
Facilitate coaching conversations using a coaching cycle that promotes reflection, challenges assumptions, and pushes for instructional growth
Facilitate change by analyzing data and systems for conditions of change, supporting educators to develop action plans and goals, generating productive conflict, and mitigating resistance to change
Promote reflective practices by engaging in professional learning, developing emotional intelligence, and seeking and applying feedback for self-improvement
Requirements
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
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
Important Details
Schedule: 0.2 FTE (8 hours per week)
About the Company
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.
