Interim - Lead Multi-Classroom Teacher - Stratton Elementary (2026-2027)

Music City Center•Nashville, TN

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) is an instructional leadership role at MNPS. The MCL leads a team of teachers, tutors, and other adults in meeting students’ academic goals and is accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by team members. The MCL establishes team members’ goals, organizes instructional planning and teaching responsibilities around their strengths and development goals, sets learning benchmarks, and determines how students spend instructional time. The MCL also provides direct instruction, sometimes by co-teaching, and reviews student progress with the team to adjust instructional strategies. In collaboration with the principal, the MCL selects, evaluates, and develops team members and may recommend dismissal of low performers. The role title may vary by school site, but the job description and responsibilities are similar across MNPS schools. The position is school-based at Stratton Elementary and is listed as interim for the 2026–2027 school year. The stated starting salary is $53,610.04. The salary range for certificated teaching positions is calculated based on 201 days and is provided as a reference; final compensation is determined by MNPS based on relevant factors, including education, experience, and other qualifications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Valid Tennessee teaching license.
Knowledge of the subject matter and/or grade level being taught.
Superior prior student academic achievement, evidenced by student outcomes in the top 25% for two of the last three years compared with teachers in comparable subjects and grades in a state or nationally, measured by student learning growth.
Experience successfully organizing, coaching, leading, and/or managing a team of adults to accomplish goals.
Experience successfully using data and data systems to make instructional decisions, and ability to coach others in using data to ensure instruction meets the needs of all learners.
Evidence of capacity to set priorities, organize and balance workload, and make difficult decisions.
Personal and professional demeanor, attitude, and maturity to interact with parents, administrators, staff, and community members.

Responsibilities

Set ambitious, measurable achievement expectations for all students taught by the team, including expectations for formative and summative assessment results.
Establish methods and create instructional tools and materials for use by team teachers across classrooms.
Clarify content and teaching processes through direction, tools, and materials.
Lead the team in backward planning to align lessons, activities, and assessments; designing enriched and personalized instruction; and creating assessments that accurately measure student progress.
Lead the team in setting measurable expectations for student behavior and engagement, creating classroom environments suited to collaborative and individual learning, and establishing a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport.
Lead the team in holding students to academic standards; addressing their social, emotional, behavioral, organizational, and time-management needs; investing them in learning; incorporating questioning, discussion, small-group and individual instruction; using assessment data to inform instruction; and communicating progress to students.
Solicit and receive feedback from the supervisor and team members to improve professional skills.
Lead regular communication with families and collaborate with them on learning at home and at school and on supporting learning success.
Organize and schedule team time to align instructional vision and delivery and address persistent student learning challenges.
Determine students’ use of instructional time based on team teachers’ instructional skills and content knowledge.
Allocate instructional duties among team teachers based on their strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals.
Allocate non-instructional administrative duties among team teachers and other staff.
Model instructional tasks to support team development.
Clarify and adjust team members’ roles and provide feedback, developmental advice, and assignments to improve their effectiveness.
Evaluate team members for potential role changes and opportunities to advance to new or more complex roles.
Work with the principal to dismiss team members who do not meet standards of excellence.
Participate in school professional development opportunities.
Develop and lead a professional learning community within the team and school.
Work with the principal to choose, evaluate, and develop the team.