Regional Emergent Bilingual Coach - San Antonio (Immediate Opening)

IDEA Public Schools•San Antonio, TX

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Emergent Bilingual (EB) Coach, in collaboration with the national English Learner team, will oversee their regional portfolio of schools to ensure high-quality instruction and compliance support for EB students. This involves coaching teachers and leaders through general classroom support, side-by-side observations, providing professional development, data analysis, lesson plan feedback, and ensuring campuses maintain 100% EB compliance with state and federal requirements. This is a full-time, grant-funded position located in San Antonio, requiring daily accounting and monthly tracking of activities. Travel throughout the region is expected.

Requirements

Bilingual or ESL Certification Required
Bachelor’s degree required
1-3 years of experience teaching EB students
Technology proficient (office 365)

Nice To Haves

Masters preferred
3+ years of experience preferred

Responsibilities

Provides support and assistance to classroom teachers and campus leaders in the full and skillful implementation of integrated and designated English Language Development (ELD).
Conducts classroom observations, specific to language development and provides coaching support for all teachers and leaders with clear next steps and follow-up process.
Provides on-site staff development to ensure that teachers are knowledgeable about data-driven learning and effective instructional strategies related to English Language Development (ELD).
Supports teachers and leaders in building an interactive classroom environment focused on the content and learning strategies embedded into established curriculum/curricula.
Conducts demonstration and models lessons in classroom to ensure that all teachers and leaders have been trained to an advanced level of delivery and are using instructional materials as designed, specific to integrated and designated ELD.
Serves as a resource in identifying appropriate instructional strategies and interventions to improve student achievement for all students including English Learners, students enrolled in Special Education Programs, and students with diverse learning needs.
Participates in collaborative regional (and occasionally campus) level meetings to assist in the analysis and utilization of assessment data to improve English learner student achievement.
Meets regularly with the regional leaders and campus principals/lead teams to review District/site-required assessment English learner data and to assess the outcomes of EL achievement goals.
Supports campus English Learner coordinators in the identification and reclassification process of emergent bilingual students.
Ensures 100% of required EB documents are obtained and maintained at the campus level using Ellevation.
Supports campuses with the mock TELPAS and TELPAS assessment windows.