ELA and Humanities Instructional Coach

Envision Education • San Francisco, CA

65d • $90,000 - $105,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The ELA and Humanities Instructional Coach will report directly to the assigned site Principal and will matrix to the Senior Director of Academics at our Support Office. The Coach is a member of the School Site Instructional Teams, and is charged with supporting teachers with delivering exemplary pedagogy to all students within their subject area of expertise. The Coach provides leadership and assistance in implementing student work analysis, intellectual prep, curriculum adoption, analyzing formative assessment data, and conducting professional development for enhancing teaching strategies with the goal of ensuring that every teacher is delivering rigorous, grade level appropriate instruction. The Coach will also lead the development of aligned unit and lesson plans, support instructional inquiry cycles, design and deliver exemplary professional development, and model lessons and pedagogical strategies in classrooms as needed. The Coach will also provide mentorship and context coaching for teachers going through their intern or induction years. The highly successful candidate has a love of teaching and learning, deep content knowledge, expertise with designing standards-based curriculum and delivering rigorous and equitable instruction to diverse learner groups, and a passion for closing the opportunity gap for students.

Requirements

• Valid Clear California Teaching Credential
• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years as a highly successful instructional coach at the middle and/or high school level.
• 5+ years as a highly successful teacher with a proven track record of breakthrough student achievement results.
• 5+ years of experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and/or under-resourced communities
• Demonstrated experience delivering high quality instruction in a full inclusion Special Education setting
• Commitment to the mission of Envision Education.
• Commitment to anti-racist and pro-Black pedagogy.
• Demonstrated experience using data to lead decision making processes
• Motivated, self-starter who is able to work independently and be a great team member
• Ability to deliver strong work and lead decision making, even in uncertainty and/or ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Be a Champion for excellence in English Language Arts and Humanities!
• Work with Principals to Identify and support coherent resources and guidance for curriculum, instruction and assessment
• Engage in weekly classroom observations cycles, intellectual prep, and student work analysis with teachers
• Facilitate professional learning communities and instructional rounds, analyze data and articulate progress across the content area, reflect on teacher practice and analyze student work (e.g., classroom video, lesson plans, student work, audio recordings, observations, teacher narratives), to plan next steps to improve teacher practice, and to reflect on student learning and growth.
• Support the writing of lesson plans for long term substitutes
• Support school leaders and teachers with the implementation of rigorous, data driven summative and formative assessments by partnering in facilitating the administration, scoring, and data analysis of academic assessments.
• Lead demo-lessons, book studies, and trainings during PD days and intersession PD.
• Align school-site PLCs to organizational goals and instructional priorities by backwards mapping curriculum, instruction, and goals from the Common Core State Standards.
• Engage and collaborate with Special Education team to ensure all teachers are effectively implementing IEP accommodations, modifications, and are planning with all students in min
• Implement and support the teacher observation and feedback schedule as well as regular teacher feedback and support meetings
• Support teachers who are in various pathway programs (National Board, Teacher credentialing, induction)
• Manage the delivery of systems for teachers to use data in their planning and instruction and for that data to be shared with students
• In collaboration with other Instructional Leaders and Data & Assessment team members, analyze academic performance data for patterns. Develop next steps and action plans for effective teaching and learning cycles with teachers.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Benefits

• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation time.
• Excellent health benefits package with employer contribution to benefits.
• Optional Flexible Benefits Plan including dependent care, medical care, parking, and commuter benefits.
• Retirement system from STRS.
• 403b Plan.
• Life Insurance at no cost to employee.
• Access to ongoing opportunities for learning, professional, and leadership opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees