E SSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Support student performance (achievement and growth) via a student-centered coaching
m odel
- Provide job-embedded professional development towards the district's instructional
framework and focus in order to increase student performance across all content areas
- S upport the district’s defined curriculum, instructional models and materials and assessment
tools and plans across content areas
- Provide individualized, classroom-based support to build teacher efficacy in planning,
sequencing and scaffolding instruction
- Facilitate coaching cycles with individuals and PLCs which includes classroom
o bservations, co-teaching, and modeling
- B uild collaborative partnerships with building administrators in order to build a strong culture
supportive of job-embedded professional learning
- Build strong relationships with teachers that can be leveraged to support teacher growth
and risk-taking
- Support building and district improvement goals
- Collaborate with building MTSS / School Improvement teams
- Participate in a district-wide Instructional Coach PLC
- Work with teachers that are on a continuum of experience and expertise
- Work alongside curriculum coordinators
- B e supervised by the Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
T HIS JOB POSTING IS SEEKING A CANDIDATE
- W ith elementary instructional experience
- With coaching or other teacher leadership experience
- Interested in being an instructional coach in each and every classroom
- W ho can support teachers in deepening their instructional practice (classroom
management, lesson and unit planning, accessing and utilizing resources, lesson
enactment and more).
BOARD OF EDUCATION EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL FPS EMPLOYEES
To ensure work/choices contribute to the Learner Profile and District Goals, as demonstrated by:
- Ability to create a collaborative culture through providing a safe environment for employees to
take risks, work independently and interdependently and to value all perspectives.
- Ability to establish productive relationships which will support and leave people better off through
engagement in courageous conversations and empathetic interactions in order to make choices
t hat build trust and understanding.
- Ability to establish an environment of continuous improvement that will provide data/feedback
a nd reflection that will assist in identifying and solving problems in an innovative manner.
- A bility to establish an environment for cultural improvement by demonstrating honesty with self
and others through equity, not just equality, and seeing and embracing differences as assets.
- A bility to know your audience and to tailor communication in a timely, clear and appropriate
m ode; always seeking to understand.
