Anticipated SY26-27 Lead Coach Regular Teacher

Chicago Public Schools • Chicago, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is seeking Lead Coaches to support schools in impacting the instructional core through instructional development, change management, and school-level continuous improvement. The Lead Coach will plan and implement strategies to continually improve and expand the instructional core within their assigned school, thereby enriching the lives of more students. This role is for a released teacher leader who provides professional learning and coaching supports to teachers and supports the school leader in building teacher leaders' capacity.

Requirements

• Released teacher leader
• Provides professional learning and coaching supports to teachers
• Supports the school leader to build teacher leaders’ capacity
• Must not be assigned to teaching or intervention responsibilities greater than 20-25% of their day.
• Should not be regularly used to provide classroom substitute coverage except in extenuating circumstances or to release another teacher to observe instruction in another classroom.
• Should not be regularly assigned to office responsibilities during the school day.
• Should not be used to coordinate school-wide assessments.

Nice To Haves

• Support the learning arc of developing teachers by allowing time for safe practice of new instructional strategies or methodologies.
• Leverage the Lead Coach to ensure that learning from PD takes place in the classrooms of teachers attending the sessions.
• Protect and preserve teacher meeting time for coaching and development sessions with the Lead Coach.
• Establish a cadence of check-ins with Lead Coach to discuss implementation progress on the district priorities and other school-wide goals.
• Provide protected teacher-leader capacity time: meeting time for coaching and development sessions with the Lead Coach to teacher leaders.

Responsibilities

• Implement a strategic action plan and continuous improvement strategies founded in the CPS Framework for Teaching to positively impact student-based outcomes.
• Build the day-to-day instructional capacity of classroom teachers and school administrators to deliver district instructional core priorities.
• Provide differentiated instructional support by working directly with teachers in the classroom to model effective, research-based instructional practices.
• Work collaboratively with grade-level teams to drive data-informed instructional planning.
• Provide regular professional learning and coaching to staff as needed.
• Work with school-based leadership teams to actualize district priorities school-wide.
• Lead a team (or teams) of teachers in enacting the instructional core, including planning and facilitating grade-level meetings, providing lesson plan feedback, data and/or student-work analysis, and leading instructional core walks.
• Serve on the school-based Instructional Leadership Team and the CIWP Team to integrate the instructional core throughout the school and core curriculum.
• Consult and collaborate with Principals, Assistant Principals, and other members of the school-based Instructional Leadership Teams, and District staff as needed to develop data-informed strategies.
• Build the leadership capacity of other Teacher Leaders by providing coaching and learning around leadership skills.
• Build teacher leaders’ capacity to lead teams and coach in the following years.
• Establish a regular cadence of meetings for assigned grade level teams.
• Establish a regular coaching cycle and develop a coaching and support plan for all assigned teachers.
• Support the development and execution of the school-based CIWP.
• Regularly report progress toward school goals to school leadership via scheduled check-ins.
• Develop and facilitate professional learning experiences for school-based teachers.
• Provide a regular cadence of release time for Teacher Leaders to lead a team of teachers.

Benefits

• New-to-role Lead Coaching onboarding (summer through the school year)
• Pre-service role-specific leadership training; sessions typically offered in the summer
• Attend all bi-weekly district-sponsored professional learning about coaching best practices
• Differentiated 1:1 2x per month coaching by school leader including but not limited to consulting, co-planning, modeling on leadership

What This Job Offers

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