Instructional Coach/Coordinator for English Learners

FTE: 1.0

Certification Requirement(s): Current Illinois Professional Educator License with EL Endorsement

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate competency in organization, flexibility, and cooperativeness
• ACCESS certification preferred

Responsibilities

Elementary Coordinator (0.5)

• Assessment Management & Administration (WIDA Screener/ACCESS):
  • Provide modeling and co-teaching of a variety of proven instructional methods, as well as use of materials and assessments in the classroom setting to increase teacher efficacy and enable teachers to utilize a variety of effective teaching techniques.
  • Demonstrate methods required to perform classroom and/or subject-specific assignments for the purpose of providing an effective program addressing individual student requirements.
  • Collaborate and support the development, design, and implementation of curriculum.
  • Observe instruction to provide specific non-evaluative feedback to educators.
  • Facilitate peer observations of teachers and/or coaches demonstrating instructional practices.
  • Communicate purposely and frequently with teachers, principals, district-level administrators, and others in a variety of ways (e.g. emails, memos, newsletters, websites, study groups, etc.) for the purpose of sharing information.
  • Facilitate conversations with individual teachers, grade level teams, departments/divisions, whole staffs, and other groups for the purpose of meeting building or district objectives.
  • Identify coaching needs, interests, and desires through collaborative conversations with individual teachers, teams, and communities of practice for the purpose of providing appropriate and effective coaching.
  • Prepare a variety of written materials (e.g. grades, attendance, anecdotal records, data/assessment reports, staff attendance for PD hours, etc.) for the purpose of documenting progress and meeting mandated and/or district requirements.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of best practices and research for instruction.
• Screening & Placement:
  • Administers English Language Assessments (WIDA Screener/MODEL) for private schools.
  • Orders test materials, creates testing sessions, sets district schedules across domains, and monitors overall testing progress.
  • Updates WIDA accounts, trains staff on administration/score interpretation, and provides technical support during testing.
• Data Integrity, Compliance & Record Keeping:
  • Maintains student records and conducts internal compliance audits on required EL/Bilingual documentation and parent communications.
  • Verifies, updates, and corrects elementary student fields in Synergy and SIS to ensure state and district data accuracy.
• Teacher Consultation & Program Implementation:
  • Serves as the primary district resource for elementary ML program implementation and collaborates with teachers serving multilingual learners.
  • Coordinates with elementary teams to ensure complete and timely EL/Bilingual Progress Reports.
• Department Operations & Resource Management:
  • Helps maintain the ML Department website and Google Shared Drives, and collaborates on department newsletters.
  • Tracks teacher WIDA training compliance, inventories testing supplies, and orders MODEL/Screener materials as needed.

Instructional Coach Support (0.5)

• Develop positive and supportive relationships with classroom teachers, administrators, and staff, maintaining confidentiality when appropriate.
• Build trust and rapport with the entire school for the purpose of establishing credibility.
• Collaborate with principals, individual teachers, and school sites for the purpose of implementing effective instructional practices with a focus on co-planning, co-teaching, and modeling.
• Design and facilitate professional learning related to effective instructional practices, which includes, but is not limited to, data analysis, differentiation, and technology integration.
• Assist in identifying, planning, and facilitating professional learning opportunities for teachers for the purpose of improving student learning.