Description
Position at IDEA Public Schools

About Southern Louisiana
Baton Rouge is ranked in the top 100 on the U.S. News and World Report Best Places to Live Rankings. It is also home to IDEA Innovation and IDEA Bridge, the first IDEA Public School regions outside of the state of Texas. We are honored to pledge our passion and focus to the students of Baton Rouge and provide an educational experience that will end with college acceptance and matriculation.

While Baton Rouge is well known for its delicious cuisine and entertainment, it is also a nucleus for an abundant culture and history. We are ecstatic to enlist a cohort of strong individuals that will help support student's dreams to get to and through college.

IDEA New Orleans is set to open its doors in the fall of 2019 and will begin by offering kindergarten through 5th grade to 360 students. Home to world-class restaurants, and beautiful architecture - IDEA is ecstatic to enlist a cohort of strong individuals that will help support student's dreams to get to and through college.

In 2017, only 1 in 6 students graduated in the state of Louisiana graduated college-ready. Changing this statistic is part of the promise IDEA makes to current and incoming students. IDEA Southern Louisiana is part of the solution for sharing the endless possibilities in grade school, college, and beyond.

Role Mission: IDEA Public schools has the mission of being the largest producer of low-income college graduates in the nation. The goal of the Regional Math Coach is the improvement of instructional clarity, content and execution of a strong conceptual math approach in K-8th grade, ensuring that school performance continually outpaces the rate of expansion of the district, through building the content and curricular capacities of regional Academy and College Prep principals, and assume the role of intervention specialist for math intervention, as needed.

Accountabilities :

Provide excellent partnership, knowledge and support to ensure that schools are improving and exemplary in achievement, resulting in:

School Performance

• 100% of s chools meet Math goal of 80/40/10 Basic+/Mastery+/Advanced+ percentages

School Improvement

• 100% of s chools receive a B or higher growth index/growth to m astery rating as reported by the LDOE

Instructional Improvement of K - 8 th Grade Math Instruction : Provide analysis, strategy, and consultancy to develop instructional staff to improve quality of math instruction

• Lead strategic initiatives to build instructional capacity at schools such as providing focused analysis to leaders, building content capacity through coaching, designing professional development, creating deliverables that address strategic curricular needs on campuses.
• Provide organization, region, school, assessment, and student-level analyses and strategic recommendations to increase both efficiency and efficacy of senior and school leadership.
• Build capacity in instructional staff to deliver high-quality first instruction and data-driven interventions to close gaps

Quality Professional Development for Lea ders and Teachers: Implement school based and regional professional development.

• Regularly analyze quantitative and qualitative data at academies and college preps across the region to identify instructional gaps in Math instruction and achievement.
• Design and partner with academic services team to provide timely professional development that increases the ability of teachers and leaders to meet ambitious academic goals in Math.

Ensure successful implementation of Math interventions

• Ability to read and interpret data in order to prioritize high leverage next action steps
• Conduct field observations of Critical Student Instruction (CSI) math classrooms at campuses in your region to increase student achievement data
• Ensure delivery of high quality trainings for CSI based on specific regional needs.
• Deeply understand the CSI model, last year's results, and priorities for improvement within the first month of hire
• Ensure that HotSpot blended learning effectively uses appropriate computer based math individualization tools
• Ensure that LEAP Spring Break Math Camp s successfully targets students who are on the cusp of Basic or Advanced and improves their performance by the necessary amount to improve achievement levels

We look for Team and Family who embody the followingvaluesand characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our missionand being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effectiveoutcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationshipsin order toachieve outcomes
• We believe in education asa professionand hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

• No direct management; provide coaching to teachers and leaders

Competencies:

• Mission Focus - focuses on IDEA's core purpose of getting all students into college
• Record of Results - holds high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals
• Managing Others to Deliver Results -- leads others to achieve measurable and ambitious results
• Instructional Leadership - leads instructional staff to improve their teaching quickly and measurably through observations, coaching, data conversations, and effective evaluations
• Problem Solving and Strategic Leadership - able to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies for achieving quantifiable goals
• Coaching & Developing - develops team through formal and informal methods; makes professional development a top priority
• Communication - effectively conveys information using a variety of channels and techniques
• Continuous Improvement - proactively identifies opportunities to improve and consistently reflects on past actions to guide future decisions
• Building Relationships of Trust and Collaboration - drive towards results because of strong business partnerships of credibility, trust, and effectiveness

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred
• Experience: 3-5 years of teaching experience with record of results as a K-8 classroom math instructor, 1+ experience managing teachers, experience as an Assistant Principal (or similar role) preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

• Mastery of Guideposts for Excellent Teaching (or similar teaching rubric)
• Ability to coach and influence leaders and teachers
• Strong content knowledge as a math teacher or coach
• Familiarity with Eureka Math, strongly preferred
• Knowledge of Louisiana state standards

Compensation:

Salaries for this role typically fall between $58,884 and $75,077 commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications. This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on individual and organizational performance and goal attainment.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.