Tlc Senior Team Lead - Teacher, Intervention - 9Th-12Th Grade

DPS • Denver, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a teacher who is also a member of the Instructional Leadership Team, playing a critical role in achieving student achievement goals. The role involves providing high-quality instruction in their own classroom for part of the day, and dedicating the other part to developing a team of teachers. This development focuses on enabling teachers to deliver joyful, rigorous, and personalized instruction that leads to high academic achievement. The Senior Team Lead acts as a content area expert, facilitates collaborative team time, provides one-on-one observation and coaching to peers, and manages the Leading Effective Academic Practice (LEAP) growth and performance evaluation for their team. They contribute to the year-long professional development plan, provide whole staff professional learning in their areas of expertise, and collaborate with school leaders and team specialists to align teacher support with school-wide instructional priorities. The expected outcomes include enhancing the instructional capacity of a team of teachers and fostering a team culture of continuous learning to maximize staff and student morale and performance. The role also involves creating distributive leadership structures in collaboration with school leaders and increasing opportunities for feedback and growth from content experts to drive student achievement, while also building the Senior Team Lead's own leadership capacity.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Education or a related field.
• Possess a valid Colorado Department of Education (CDE) teaching license.
• Have at least two (2) years of demonstrated teacher effectiveness through effective or equivalent end-of-year ratings through the LEAP growth and performance system, or a comparable, multiple measure, growth and performance system.
• Demonstrate essential skills for this role outlined in the Teacher Leader Scope and Sequence.
• Lead for racial and educational excellence and work to dismantle systems of oppression and inequity in the community.
• Believe in and support all students so they feel seen and heard with access to high quality education.
• Live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado.
• Have the ability with or without accommodations to meet the physical demands of the position.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective instruction leading to student outcome growth, evaluated by the Leading Effective Academic Practice (LEAP) growth and performance framework.
• Lead and develop a team of teachers through coaching, observation and feedback, professional learning, and facilitation of collaborative team time to build their capacity to share ownership and belief in the academic success of every child and closing of achievement gaps.
• Ensure effective instruction aligned to the Framework for Effective Teaching.
• Implement rigorous and relevant curriculum and daily and long-term planning in all classrooms.
• Improve assessment practices, data analysis, and action planning.
• Observe and evaluate team members on the Framework for Effective Teaching and the Professionalism Rubric, including hosting mid- and end-of-year evaluations.
• Coordinate with complementary team specialists and school leaders to ensure that expectations, processes, and objectives for collaborative time and coaching are aligned to the school-wide strategic plan.
• Build the capacity of a team of teachers to create welcoming and inclusive classroom learning environments and create a team culture that embraces continuous learning and feedback.
• Serve as a member of the school’s Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) to support alignment and build instructional and leadership capacity and accountability among a team of teachers, including attending meetings and performing other ILT duties.
• Demonstrate values-driven, reflective, and resilient leadership by leading a team of teachers to a collective commitment to demonstrating school values.
• Select which techniques are employed, based on the needs of their team of teachers, to achieve stated goals, including hosting and/or facilitating learning labs, co-planning, co-teaching/modeling, sharing resources, facilitating small group or whole-staff professional learning, and providing input into school-wide decisions.
• Participate in extra-duty activities such as coaching, tutoring, or summer programs, as outlined in the Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Agreement and in accordance with Department of Labor regulations.

Benefits

• A culture that values Equity, Accountability, Integrity, Collaboration and Fun with a shared vision that Every Learner Thrives.
• Competitive compensation with an additional $5,500 annual stipend on top of teacher salary.
• Time off
• Health and wellness benefits
• PERA Retirement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees