Lead Coach, District (Internal Candidates Only), Multiple Positions [SY 2026-2027]

Salem Public Schools•Salem, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Salem Public Schools is committed to empowering educators and fostering structures that prioritize distributed leadership. Lead Coaches are a critical component of the Academics Department and are members of the Academics Team. SPS is seeking experienced Salem coaches to serve as Lead Coach for the duration of one academic year to perform the following duties during the first and Fourth Mondays monthly from 8-12 at Central Office.

Requirements

Current coach in Salem Public Schools
Massachusetts educator certification
SEI endorsement

Responsibilities

Develop agendas, plan and facilitate content coach meetings aligned with district priorities
Create/monitor standards landscape
Monitor MCAS, STAR, and DCA data
Coordinate DCA creation, naming, and sharing between educators and technology department
Communicate information from the academics team to other math coaches
Facilitate building based work related to PRISM
Ensure communication/consistency around district assessments (DCA,MCAS, STAR/CBMs, data required for PRISM)
Provide feedback and contribute to the execution of logistics for professional development and coaching across grade levels in the content area in collaboration with the Academics’ Team Directors / Executive Director and partners.
Monitor assessment (MCAS/ACCESS/DCA etc) implementation, communication and data, as needed
Contribute to the creation and revision of assessments (DCAs, etc.) as needed
Manage and monitor the standards landscape (k-12)
Write or contribute to grant applications and implementation with stakeholders as needed
Communicate information from Academics Team to Content Coach Team (for input and/or completed decisions)
Collaborate with community stakeholders to plan equitable, standards aligned learning experiences/field trips for all grades
Support in planning and facilitating monthly ELD Job-Alike
Monitor ACCESS testing and serve as a point person for ML Coaches and teachers during testing
Monitor ACCESS, WIDA Model, DCA and STAR data
Collaborate with content coaches to ensure SEI strategies are incorporated across all content areas
Align progress monitoring for students not meeting ACCESS benchmarks
Create writing portfolio exemplars for the ML department
Participate in SEI learning walks
Communicate information from the academics team
Raise PreK specific information/data to the academics team
Track PreK assessment data and communicate this to stakeholders
Plan and implement professional development for the year
Work with the literacy coach team for PRISM alignment
Align and implement components of PRISM
Ensure communication/consistency around district assessments
Communicate about the creation and revision of assessments (DCAs, etc.) to CMS coaches
Communicate about how to manage and monitor the standards landscape (6-8) to CMS coaches
Communicate information from Academics Team to other CMS coaches for input and/or completed decisions
Develop additional lenses to provide input and evaluate and refine systems to apply to future opportunities
Advocating for all students across all schools in district
Advocating all teachers in all content areas across the district
Representing instructional priorities of individual schools across the district
Cross-functional input, learning, action steps; breaking down of silos
Gain access to district decision makers for more direct and timely action steps
Protected time to visit other schools
Learning from external, and high quality instructional partners by participating in district level planning meetings
Gain access to district level data available only to District Leadership
Hours/guidance for additional licenses
Communicating district messages/priorities with content and building teams
Ensuring vertical alignment of content and standards
Analyzing data, relevant guidance, laws, district priorities and values to drive action steps
Managing grants
Developing systems to manage all components of the position
Instructional vision planning that balances the uniqueness of schools and their autonomy with district initiatives and priorities
Calibration with district leaders to influence districtwide decisions through research, data, and experience
Persuade without a level of authority
Learn to communicate decisions and information that can be polarizing in ways that honor voices, holds expectations, and eases concerns and anxieties
Respecting the decision without personal interjection
Advocacy through representation of the team’s consensus outside of the room as a single POV
Curating community builders and facilitation moves (to build community of learners among coaches)