Instructional Coach - Secondary Special Education (SPED Coach) - General Interest

About the role

Instructional Coaches are teacher leaders who increase the professional capacity of teachers through job-embedded professional development on high school and middle school campuses. They instruct classes of students while also acting as professional learning facilitators to grow teacher capacity at the campus level.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with campus/district leaders and colleagues in order to promote continuous improvement at the classroom level, ensuring high levels of learning for all students.
• Support the implementation of state standards by developing teacher understanding of TEKS, power standards, FISD curriculum, and instructional practices.
• Support department teacher teams in planning processes and instruction aligned to the four critical questions of a professional learning community.
• Support, communicate, and model district priorities.
• Aid in identifying areas for growth for the campus and district.
• Collaborate regularly with central office content coordinator and campus supervising administrator to ensure coaching impacts student performance.
• Collaborate with Curriculum and Instruction staff to plan and facilitate professional learning sessions.
• Facilitate formal and informal professional learning on content and strategies to content area campus teachers.
• Increase the quality and effectiveness of classroom instruction through collaborating, co-planning, and completing coaching cycle protocols.
• Foster trusting relationships with staff.
• Assist teacher teams in interpreting formative and summative assessment data and using assessment information to adjust instruction.
• Exhibit a non-evaluative growth mindset and utilize coaching skills to help teachers and teams evaluate progress and set action steps for continuous improvement.
• Exhibit a high level of ethics and confidentiality in regards to student and teacher records and classroom performance.
• Attend professional learning sessions to increase coaching skills; these may occur during the school year or summer.

Qualifications

• Secondary teaching certificate
• Special Education Certification required
• Master’s Degree preferred
• ESL Certification preferred
• Special Knowledge/Skills: Campus Leadership Experience Preferred, Experience facilitating professional learning preferred, Extensive training in the curriculum and instructional strategies, Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others, Experience: Minimum of three years of classroom experience in the content area and level preferred

Benefits

Frisco ISD retains the right to adjust the responsibilities and assignments of all positions as needed to meet the needs of the District.

Frisco ISD is committed to fostering a collaborative work environment that honors and supports the social and emotional well-being of all.

Employees are expected to interact in a manner that is becoming of educators and promotes high levels of productivity for the benefit of the students we serve.