Middle School Instructional Coach

**Position Responsibilities**

**Middle School Educator Responsibilities**
- Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Middle School.
- Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
- Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.
- Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
- Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
- Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
- Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.
- Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.
- Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
- Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).
- Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.
- Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.
- Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (supervision, overnight Classroom Without Walls trips, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, TRi Time, community service projects, etc.)

**Role-Specific Responsibilities**

PLC coaches act as champions for their team by focusing on the growth of individual members as well as the collective. They do this in three ways: teaching, coaching, and leading.
- By teaching, they hone their own craft, serve as a model, and experience the same challenges as those they are coaching and leading.
- By coaching, they facilitate feedback, learning, and professional growth for individual team members.
- By leading, they cultivate the health of their team and guide their team’s collective focus on enhancing student learning and well-being.

**Teach**
- Understand and utilize the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum in order to provide lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
- Employ research-based teaching practices that nurture students’ positive identities as knowers, doers, and sense-making of mathematics.
- Provide access and challenge to all students by utilizing data from formative and summative assessments as well as classroom observations.
- Foster positive relationships outside of the classroom by engaging with students in math-specific clubs and activities (sponsorship of Math Counts, Math Olympiad and/or grade-level Math Help).

**Coach**
- Use the SAS Guidebook to Teaching to coach on high quality culturally-responsive instructional practices in the learning space
- Observe instruction, analyze student work, and provide regular direct actionable feedback to coachee(s)
- Focus on individual and collective growth in both hard skills (e.g., pedagogy) and soft skills (e.g., trust, collaboration) and invest in development of own skill set related to teaching, coaching, and leading
- Coordinate team professional learning based on needs emerging from coaching experiences, data and current research
- Facilitate the goal setting, learning, monitoring and reflection process with the team. Support coachees and PLCs to ensure their goals are focused on measurable student learning outcomes and/or school/division priorities
- Demonstrate a willingness and ability to build and sustain trusted professional relationships with teachers, leaders, and other coaches. This may involve demonstrating a willingness to be a learner, to be vulnerable, and to establish a conducive working rapport with educators that enables them to grow and learn in their teaching practice.
- Collaborate with other PLC coaches and participate in PLC coach professional learning related to: working with adult learners, giving feedback, providing coaching, and regularly giving input into the PLC coach model

**Lead**
- PLC