Job description
Thank you for your interest in joining our Maureen Joy Charter School family!
- Please note, the application must be completed in one sitting, and your resume must be ready for submission upon applying. We look forward to receiving your application!
Maureen Joy Charter School is seeking an Elementary School Instructional Coach for the 2022-2023 school year.
What You Bring:
- 5+ years of elementary teaching experience that demonstrate achieving excellent results
- Demonstrated ability and commitment to support and develop teachers
- Experience in managing individual adults and/or teams
- Experience in internalization and data analysis protocols and processes
- Experience designing and executing professional development sessions
Preferred:- Experience teaching Heggerty, Into Reading, and/or other literacy curriculum aligned to science of reading methodology
- Experience administering and analyzing diagnostic assessments (CORE Phonics, Counting Proficiency, iReady or comparative assessments)
- Experience teaching cognitively guided math instruction (Story Problem, Counting Collections, etc) and Achievement First and/or Investigations mathematics curriculum
- Experience with instructional coaching aligned with the Get Better Faster Model
- Experience designing professional development aligned to the See It, Name It, Do It model
What You Believe In:
Instructional Leadership Team Mission
We provide differentiated support to teachers through joyful, open, and empowering teacher-leader partnerships, - collaborative content-building experiences, and transformational coaching in order to develop culturally responsive instructional practices that meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of each individual student.
- All Hands: We step up and step in to support students, teachers, and our teammates.
Change the Narrative: We believe all of our kids deserve access to excellent learning experiences.- Always Getting Better: We have a growth mindset for our kids, our teachers, and ourselves.
- Excellence is a Habit: We believe in setting and reinforcing high expectations for our kids and ourselves.
- Choose Joy: We choose and love this work, and we celebrate growth!
Instructional Philosophies
Literacy Vision
Math Vision
What You’ll Do:
Instructional Coaching
Provide weekly instructional coaching for a portfolio of 6-8 teachers:
- Support teachers with lesson planning and internalization as needed with our curricula materials:
- Literacy: Heggerty (Phonological Awareness), Into Reading (Reading and Writing)
- Observing teachers for approximately 30-60 minutes (3-4 times)/cycle and providing observational feedback resulting in a bite-sized action step.
- Support teachers in real-time with model teaching, co-teaching, and real-time feedback as needed.
- Engage in coaching conversations with teachers every cycle to discuss data, classroom management, instructional planning, internalization, and/or execution.
- Collaborate with Assistant Principal to determine teachers who need to transition to an intensified support plan.
Grade Level Partnership
- Partner with grade-level leads and Assistant Principal to develop Student Orientation plans
- Join weekly grade-level team meetings to stay abreast of grade-level initiatives and plans
- Attend and collaborate on grade-level and school-wide events
- Provide presence, modeling and support during assigned critical culture-heavy times of the day
- Participate in implementation of social-emotional, Academic Development (SEAD) curriculum and practices
Professional Development
- Plan and execute monthly professional development and/or data analysis sessions.
- Plan and develop staff orientation sessions.
- Plan and develop ongoing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with grade-level teams to support instructional foci.
Curriculum, Assessments, and Grading
- Participate in making curriculum adoption/modification/implementation and development decisions.
- Modify planning documents including days for assessment, flex, and reteach.
- Create assessment calendars that include:
- Assessment / graded assignments administered
- Timeline for grading and providing feedback
- Timeline for data analysis, reteach, and posting or returning assignments
- Analyze Interim Assessment data and trends with Assistant Principal to inform Data Day and instructional team data analysis.
- Create and/or modify interim assessments and create keys on GradeCam.
- Create teacher-facing exemplars for Interim Assessments.
- Provide feedback on Interim Assessment/Benchmark Analysis and reteach plans.
- Ensure planners create assessment scorecards and provide feedback on assessments within the assessment cycle and framework.
Elementary/Middle School Instructional Leadership Team
- Serve on the school’s Instructional Leadership Team:
- Participate in bi-weekly walkthroughs with Assistant Principal to collect data on instructional trends using observation tools and the Get Better Faster (GBF) coaching rubric.
- Participate in Instructional Leadership Team walkthroughs to collaborate on observations, action steps, and teacher support.
- Meet weekly to discuss and analyze school-wide instructional trends using data from walkthroughs, Whetstone, Interim Assessments, etc.
- Work as a member of a larger team in making school-wide instructional decisions that ensure that all Maureen Joy scholars receive the best instruction possible
Maureen Joy Charter School is an equal opportunity employer. We hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. We strongly encourage diverse candidates to apply.
Maureen Joy Charter School is an equal opportunity employer. We hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. We strongly encourage diverse candidates to apply.
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