Secondary Building-Based Instructional Coach SY24/25

• Create positive relationships with building staff, students, families, and district-level teams.
• Develop collegial relationships with teachers with the goal of understanding the teacher's current instructional delivery strategy and opportunities to incorporate student-centered coaching and evidence-based instructional methods to meet the individual and collective needs of the students.
• Implement techniques that include modeling teaching, facilitating group observations, and critiquing to improve teaching and learning.
• Lead study groups and teacher meetings focusing on instructional planning and effective lesson delivery.
• Support Professional Learning Communities by analyzing student work and data.
• Analyze and monitor school-level data results to recommend intervention and relationship-building with identified teachers to impact student behavior, engagement, and achievement.
• Provide research-based feedback on proposed instructional and classroom management strategies in order to create an environment that promotes evidence and research-based techniques and approaches to classroom management and learning.
• Collaborate with building leadership in creating a culture of rigor, inquiry, reflection, and collective teacher efficacy.
• Collaborate with building leaders and district-level leaders in developing and facilitating professional learning.
• Communicate coaching goals and outcomes with building and district teams.
• Provide support, feedback, and assistance to curriculum coaches in developing and revising curriculum guides and assessments (formative, summative, common).

• Continue your professional development.
• Stay abreast of education innovations, programs, methodologies, and research.
• Maintain high levels of proficiency in leadership behaviors and professional deportment.
• Maintain organizational systems prioritizing coaching roles.
• Track coaching work.
• Maintain a neat and professional appearance.

• Minimum of 3 years effective teaching experience required
• Minimum of 5 years effective teaching experience preferred
• Master's Degree in Education or related field (or plan of study on file and active progression to a complete degree program) in an agreed-upon time frame
• Maintains Kansas Teaching License in the appropriate content area and level
• Expertise in one or more content areas, including grade-level expectations and course-level expectations

• EC-5th - Reading Specialist or other advanced training/experience in early literacy instruction preferred
• 6th-12th - Content area certification(s)
• Knowledge of content and Standards (National, State, District).
• Demonstrated effective coaching practices (preferred).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with various instructional technology resources
• Knowledge of adult learning theory and sound professional development practices
• Maintains a flexible daily and yearly schedule

• Ability to solve practical problems and manage a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, general curriculum and learning theories, correspondence, and protocols.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators, staff, parents, students, and the general public.

• Maintains communication with teachers and other school personnel to enhance cooperative action to meet students' educational needs.
• Maintains confidentiality regarding educational records.

• Utilizes existing technology effectively in the performance of duties
• Performs other related work as required

Kansas City Public Schools