Instructional Coach - Secondary (2026 - 2027 School Year)

Crossroads Charter Schools is seeking highly effective, highly qualified, and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations, Real World Learning, Creative Culture, and Belonging.

About the School

At Crossroads Charter Schools, we:

• Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
• Interrupt the “school to prison pipeline” – policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
• Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
• Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional, and often difficult.
• Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning.

About the Role

The ideal candidate exemplifies excellent proficiency in:

• Constantly collaborating and effectively communicating with the leadership team.
• Identifying system-wide strengths and areas of growth.
• Managing and completing tasks both within and on the organization.
• Creating goals and implementing action plans in order to achieve goals.
• Maintaining a solutions-oriented and kids-focused mindset.
• Understanding of adult growth, personalysis, and differentiated teacher supports needed across varying teacher knowledge and experience.
• Elevating student learning at all levels across all content areas and teacher proficiency levels by connecting teachers to the needed resources, supports, and/or training.

Please provide a cover letter and at least 3 letters of reference.

Responsibilities

• Work with building admin to execute on academic vision and goals.
• Work with building administrators to create quarterly and semester academic goals.
• Collaborate with teachers to identify, share, and coach best practices for reaching all students including students with disabilities, ELL, and other specialized needs.
• Provide educators professional learning opportunities to equip each teacher and school leader with the ability to use formal and informal student data to refine instructional strategies and plan and provide appropriate small group or individualized instruction and interventions.
• Assist the faculty in the data team process, the creation of common formative assessments, the ongoing review and refinement of curriculum and learning objectives, and the implementation of the response to intervention (RTI) strategies.
• Help ensure the learning environment is dynamic and conducive to high-level learning.
• Support educators with analyzing student performance, examining students’ educational plans and needs, and assess students’ high school, college- and career-readiness.
• Provide teachers and administrators with professional learning on the use of student data including identifying trends and gaps in student mastery of content and how to develop targeted plans to address identified trends and needs.
• Research lessons, articles, innovative instructional practices, and books in order to assist teachers in designing relevant learning experiences.
• Attend and participate in school leadership team meetings.
• Plan, assist, and implement professional development, support digital curriculum implementation, and model personalization strategies.
• Assist educators in making the critical shift to be a facilitator of student learning.
• Support the creation of personalized learning environments including modeling blended learning approaches and instructional strategies.
• Provide follow-up to classroom observations, walkthroughs, coaching, and feedback to staff.
• Promote the school’s educational programs through online resources and social media.
• Act in a professional and ethical manner at all times and comply with school policies, procedures, and expectations.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.

All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established as part of the annual performance planning process or as the result of organizational planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education.
• Valid Missouri teaching certificate.
• Desire to continue professional development.
• Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities.
• Demonstrated success in urban education.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups, including parents, teachers, staff, volunteers, and partners, informed of critical issues, activities, and schedules.
• Excellent work ethic, positive attitude, flexibility, and willingness to perform tasks assigned.
• Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in the school environment and community.
• Must pass extensive background check.

Skills

• Strong background in both English language arts and math instruction.
• Sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core State Standards.
• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs.
• Ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents, and community.
• Ability to speak clearly and concisely in written or oral communication.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers.
• Bend, stoop, lift objects of at least ten pounds.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch.
• Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• May have to intervene in student fights or when students are escalated using MANDT training.

Communication

• Maintains communication with teachers, other school personnel, and parents/guardians to enhance cooperative action which will meet the educational needs of students.
• Provides health services, information, and counseling in an effective and positive manner to enhance the health and wellness of the school community.
• Completes accident/incident reports for students/staff.
• Compiles data for statistical purposes.
• Maintains confidentiality regarding educational records.

Organization

• Must be able to organize and prioritize work in a manner understandable to the leadership team.
• Maintains a daily log of school/staff visits and documentation.
• Maintains the daily environment of the health office facility and supplies.
• Utilizes existing technology effectively in the performance of duties.

Pay

This is a 10-month position, however, it requires 10 extra days throughout the school year mutually scheduled with the principal. There is a $7,000.00 stipend paid for the 10 extra days.

Expected salary should be indicated based on the 10-month Compensation plan.