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24-25 - Orchard Ridge - Instructional Coach - 1.0 FTE (40 HPW)

Employer
Madison Metropolitan School District
Location
Madison, WI, US
Salary
Competitive
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MMSD is seeking highly motivated and energetic teacher applicants for openings for the 2024-2025 school year. The Madison Metropolitan School District actively seeks and encourages women and candidates of color to apply.

Becoming a Model School District

The Madison Metropolitan School District is committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive. We have a simple but bold vision - to ensure that every school is a thriving school, fostering the growth of every student so they graduate from high school ready for college, career and community.

Our strategy is captured in our strategic framework , and centers on three major goals: that all children achieve academically, that our schools are places where children and adults thrive, and that our Black youth excel at school. To achieve this vision, we seek to retain staff in all positions, who are committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive. Staff who will actively contribute to our ongoing commitment to making MMSD a thriving, welcoming environment for all students, families and staff.

We firmly believe and are here to create a work environment that is challenging and rewarding, while supporting you in your career path. We aim to foster, cultivate, and retain a skilled workforce that supports and mirrors the diversity of our student population.

We know this vision doesn't come to life without dynamic leaders in every school. For more information on our teacher screening and selection process, please visit our TEACH Madison webpage.

About Our District

The Madison Metropolitan School District is the second largest school district in Wisconsin. The district serves a beautifully diverse population of more than 27,000 students. More than half are students of color. Almost half come from low income households. Nearly one third are English Language Learners, and more than 100 languages are represented in our schools. Madison schools are committed to making this district a place where every child thrives.

Job Summary

Highly effective teachers are critical to the success of our students. Our Instructional Coaches focus on teaching and coaching our staff on best instructional strategies. They support the implementation of the district priority of LETRS and the science of reading. This is inclusive of reading foundational skills, language development, and language comprehension so that all students, including our most vulnerable, are proficient in reading when they graduate from MMSD. The Instructional Coach implements research-based coaching and they do this based on real-time student-level data. Instructional Coaches are charged with increasing the reading proficiency of students by helping teachers grow in their practice and implementation of reading. Our Instructional Coaches report to the building principal.

Essential Duties

  • Coaches will follow the district LETRS training plan
  • Creates short and long term goals and schedules that prioritizes the teaching of reading and English. Meets regularly with building leadership to maintain a priority on the teaching of reading and adjusts as necessary based on student learning data and staff training needs
  • Majority of tasks are directly related to the instruction of reading. This includes reviewing appropriate reading English, ELA and Humanities lesson plans, observing and coaching appropriate teachers, providing specific PD related to reading data and the teaching of reading
  • Facilitate teachers' understanding and implementation of the Great Teaching Matters Framework, the school's improvement plan and the district's strategic framework
  • Plan, facilitate and organize equity-focused professional learning for school-wide, department, team, and individual professional learning and support
  • Create and implement detailed coaching plans, which include focused goals and measures of success, to drive learning and coaching cycles
  • Support teachers' achievement of goals by using coaching strategies that gradually release responsibility for implementing culturally & linguistically responsive, anti-racist instructional practices to the teacher
  • Consistently support teacher practice through ongoing classroom observations, data analysis, and examination of student work. Collaborate effectively with school and district staff to provide wrap-around support for teachers' growth in instruction and differentiated planning so that students grow and achieve
  • Provide clear and direct non-evaluative, equity-focused feedback to teachers based on analysis of practice.
  • Track and analyze student and teacher progress to assess the effectiveness of coaching
  • Develop teachers' capacity to collect and analyze multiple sources of data to improve the learning of all students
  • Foster teacher team collaboration, leadership and collective efficacy
  • Participate actively on the School Based Leadership Team
  • Attend district-led professional learning meetings, trainings and events
  • Coach other disciplines as necessary
  • Perform other related duties as assigned

Position Competencies

  • High Expectations For Every Student
  • Quality Instructional Practice
  • Cultural Competence
  • Data Proficiency
  • Team Collaboration
  • Student & Family Engagement
  • Resilience & Results Orientation
  • Self-Awareness & Growth Mindset

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

  • Strong knowledge and experience teaching reading
  • Strong knowledge of standards-based instruction and assessment, disciplinary literacy (and biliteracy preferred)
  • Strong organizational and strategic planning skills
  • Exemplary interpersonal and intrapersonal skills
  • Knowledge of adult learning theory
  • Experience facilitating teacher teams and professional learning sessions
  • Ability to maintain focus on early reading and beyond priority in a fast-paced work environment
  • Demonstrated knowledge of and success with culturally & linguistically responsive teaching, equity-focused instruction, and general cultural competence
  • Deep knowledge of high quality, anti-racist instruction and ability to coach teachers to examine their own practice and make shifts to meet the unique needs of students
  • Understanding of one's own identity and bias, and how that impacts relationships with students, colleagues and families.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms. Anticipate and respond to needs in a high-quality and courteous manner, while maintaining confidentiality. Engage in and facilitates difficult conversations focused on issues of racial equity.

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