Director of Implementation, Design, and Coaching - ELA

About the role

Leading Educators is seeking a Director of Implementation, Design, and Coaching – ELA to serve as the strategic lead driving instructional transformation across seven schools in the San Mateo‑Foster City and Ravenswood City School Districts. In this role, you'll own the full lifecycle of ELA implementation—from launch through measurable impact—while building the capacity of school and district leaders to sustain excellence in literacy instruction. This is a hybrid leadership position that demands equal expertise in instructional coaching, professional learning design, and strategic client partnership. You'll work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with teachers, instructional leaders, and district teams to translate complex literacy science into coherent, executable practice that reaches every student. You'll navigate competing priorities, surface implementation risks before they derail progress, and make real‑time adjustments that keep projects on track while maintaining fidelity to high‑quality instruction. Your ability to translate data into actionable insights—and to communicate those insights clearly to diverse stakeholders—will directly influence how thousands of students experience literacy instruction. You'll design and facilitate job‑embedded professional learning cycles that stick, conduct learning walks that reveal truth, and debrief with precision so that leaders see exactly what's working and what needs attention. Beyond execution, you'll be a thought partner to district leadership, surfacing opportunities and risks that emerge from school‑level implementation and contributing to strategic decisions that shape the partnership. Whether you're coaching a principal through a difficult feedback conversation, designing a professional learning session that shifts teacher practice, or analyzing student work data to refine instructional strategy, you'll bring both rigor and humanity to every interaction.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of ELA implementation from launch through measurable impact.
• Build the capacity of school and district leaders to sustain excellence in literacy instruction.
• Translate complex literacy science into coherent, executable practice for teachers.
• Design and facilitate job‑embedded professional learning cycles that stick.
• Conduct learning walks that reveal truth and debrief with precision.
• Serve as a thought partner to district leadership, surfacing opportunities and risks from school‑level implementation.
• Coach principals through difficult feedback conversations.