Instructional Coach

Assabet Valley Collaborative • Marlborough, MA

11h • $72,000 - $100,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC) is seeking to hire a Culturally Responsive/Student Driven Instructional Coach at Orchard Street Academy. AVC is a Metrowest/Central Massachusetts educational service agency providing school programs, wraparound services, transportation, professional development, and consulting. Orchard Street Academy (OSA) is a small public therapeutic school (grades 6th-12th) serving 62 students with IEPs from over 30 districts. OSA focuses on academics, counseling, expressive therapies, and community development. The school has amenities like a gymnasium, track, basketball court, music room, and art room. Many faculty have training in Cultural Proficiency, Restorative Justice, Shared Leadership, Trauma-Informed Care, Healing and Wellness, and Student-driving/Student-centered Learning. Despite commitments to equity, OSA faces challenges such as limited staff diversity, disparities in student outcomes, and inconsistent family engagement. AVC and OSA are seeking leaders to support transformation and redesign for teaching and learning. The Instructional Coach will serve as a leader and learner, supporting increased educational outcomes for historically underrepresented students, providing culturally responsive curriculum, developing professional learning, and achieving defined objectives. This is a non-evaluative role focused on accountability through feedback. The role requires flexibility, resourcefulness, and comfort with wearing multiple hats, including administrative and hands-on responsibilities.

Requirements

• Fluency in cultural proficiency, culturally responsive practices, and/or educational equity; a deep working knowledge of systemic inequity and social change practices.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care, restorative practices, and/or other human-centered design approaches.
• Demonstrated success leading educators, through coaching and partnership, by implementing culturally responsive curriculum, and understanding the complexities of educational equity.
• Demonstrated success in directly teaching marginalized and underrepresented students in a classroom setting.
• A minimum of 8+ years of relevant, professional experience.
• Advanced scholarship/inquiry (formal or informal) in topics related to educational equity in learning theory (neuroscience, psychology, instructional design, etc.).
• Massachusetts DESE License (or eligibility for) strongly desired.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Extremely strong verbal communication skills, both with large groups and interpersonally.
• A passion for interdisciplinary work and intercultural collaborations.
• Ability to work through conflict honestly and openly and accept clear and direct feedback.
• Bilingual or multilingual is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide coaching, teaching, and learning for/with all members of our community–teachers, paraeducators, clinicians, nurses, BCBAs, SLP, OT, and co-directors–using the Culturally Responsive Teaching model with adults.
• Co-create and share in the responsibility of the development and implementation of culturally responsive pedagogy and curriculum for the purpose of strengthening curricular and instructional expertise to advance educational equity.
• Analyzes and utilizes student academic data for the purpose of developing or co-developing appropriate curriculum and guiding instructional conversations.
• Supports the redesign of our daily schedule for student-centered learning.
• Collaborates on the development of student-centered data systems that redefine how and what we measure and define as meaningful data.
• Analyze and surface the personal, interpersonal, and instructional barriers that contribute to harmful outcomes for our students.
• Understands and identifies barriers in classroom instructional practices that contribute to inequitable outcomes for historically underrepresented youth for the purpose of providing recommendations and supports.
• Facilitates professional learning, workshops, seminars, etc. (e.g. effective practices for emergent bilinguals, prominent literacy practices for non-standard English-speaking students, culturally responsive teaching modules) for the purpose of sharing best practices, identifying issues, developing recommendations, disseminating curriculum, and supporting staff.
• Be an active member of our Interdisciplinary Leadership Team.
• Completes necessary documentation.
• Complies with collaborative-wide policies and procedures.
• Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• Compensation competitive within the public school employee sector - $72K-$100K
• 3 personal days
• 11 sick days
• 75% health insurance premiums covered by AVC
• Participation in MA state pension systems (MTRS or MSERS)
• Voluntary benefits: Flex Spending, Life, Short-term, Long-term Insurance; Dental

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed