About This Role
This role is for an instructional coach at Charlottesville Middle School, focusing on improving student achievement and professional learning by coaching and demonstrating best instructional practices. The position involves supporting teachers and collaborating with the principal to meet school improvement goals.
Responsibilities
- Effectively use a coaching model to assist in the continuous improvement of instruction
- Support teachers in the implementation of division-level initiatives and programs
- Collaborate with the principal to determine what instructional support is needed to achieve the goals of the school improvement plan
- Assist teachers in integrating highly effective instructional practices into their plans and lessons
- Work with administrators and teachers to interpret student achievement data and determine related instructional needs
- Observe, access resources, collect data, provide feedback, and demonstrate lessons in classrooms as requested
Requirements
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively with adult learners based on their changing needs
- Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple projects
- Working knowledge of SOL content and skills across content areas and grade levels K-8
- Demonstrated ability to transfer research-based practices into classroom instruction
- Strong, demonstrated belief in teacher efficacy and the power of continuous learning
- A valid Virginia teaching license and at least three years of successful classroom experience
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of and/or experience in using the cognitive coaching process
- Ability to model instructional strategies, including differentiation techniques, across content areas and grade levels
- Skills in building collaborative relationships with principals and with teachers at all levels of experience
- Knowledge and experience using a variety of assessment tools and analyzing student data
- Ability to maintain relationships, which are supportive of both teachers and administrators, with student learning as the focus
- Acts as a resource who is skillful, reliable, credible, and accessible
- Communicate the goals and processes of the coaching model, and use it effectively in working with teachers
- Preferred Supervision and Administration endorsement
Important Details
- Schedule: 220 Days (2026-27 School Year)
About the Company
This position reports to the Building Principal.
