District-Wide Elementary Reading Intervention Coach

Daviess County School District • Owensboro, KY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides support to schools with intervention and serves as a member of the district Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) team. The role focuses on increasing the quality and effectiveness of interventions by utilizing evidence-based practices, modeling targeted instruction, identifying successful interventions, and expanding teachers' use of resources. The coach will support a tiered system of instructional interventions, collaborate with teachers on formative assessment, facilitate interventions in the classroom, and assist in evaluating ongoing interventions. Additionally, the role involves working collaboratively with school leadership teams to design, implement, and assess Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), fostering a positive school culture around coaching, and identifying/supporting teacher leaders. The coach will also act as a thought leader in the district regarding instruction, ensure student achievement data drives intervention decisions, assist in data disaggregation, facilitate student work analysis, and design/support job-embedded professional learning.

Requirements

• Hold valid KY teacher certification in the appropriate subject field or service area
• Master’s degree or non-degree fifth year program
• Minimum of 5 years teaching experience in the appropriate subject field or service area
• Have strong presentation and communication skills
• Worked on a successful team
• Basic computer skills including use of mouse and keyboard to navigate computer, e-mail, and websites.
• Knowledge and demonstration of sound instructional practice
• Record-keeping techniques.

Nice To Haves

• Teacher leadership experience
• Instructional coaching experience

Responsibilities

• Provide support to schools with intervention.
• Serve as a member of the district Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) team.
• Increase the quality and effectiveness of interventions by utilizing evidence-based practices to help schools design, implement, monitor, and evaluate interventions.
• Model targeted instruction to students needing intervention.
• Identify successful interventions and coach school teams to refine, extend and improve their professional practice around intervention.
• Expand teachers’ use of a variety of resources to improve instruction.
• Support a tiered system of instructional interventions.
• Collaborate with teachers to design formative assessment systems that successfully monitor student learning.
• Facilitate and support interventions in the classroom.
• Assist in the evaluation of ongoing interventions and make recommendations for change.
• Work collaboratively with the school’s leadership team to design, implement, and assess school/district Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS).
• Collaborate with the school leadership team to establish a school culture of trust resulting in a positive view of coaching and as a means of improving instruction.
• Organize and document work monthly.
• Participate in ongoing personal professional learning experiences.
• Identify and support the development of teacher leaders through professional growth opportunities.
• Model continuous learning serving as the thought leader in the district focusing on instruction.
• Ensure that student achievement data drives intervention decisions at the classroom and school level.
• Assist the district leadership team in the disaggregation of student performance data.
• Facilitate analysis of student work with teachers focusing on effectiveness of interventions.
• Design, facilitate, support and assess job embedded professional learning.

Benefits

• Participates in Kentucky Teacher’s Retirement System (KTRS)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level