New Instructional Leadership Specialist: Elementary Science

About the role

The Instructional Leadership Specialist collaborates with district and school leaders to facilitate and execute the district’s Strategic Plan with fidelity and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Spend 50% of their work schedule in classrooms actively engaged in modeling, coaching, co-teaching, and/or demonstrating standards-based best practices.
• Spend 30% of their work schedule reviewing data, leading team meetings, presenting professional development, facilitating professional learning communities.
• Spend 20% of their work schedule instructing students.
• Lead and coach adults by:
  • Planning, implementing, and supporting rigorous standards-based instruction for all students.
  • Designing model classrooms for demonstration purposes.
  • Supporting and facilitating the planning and implementation of rigorous, standards-based lessons in response to student data.
  • Supporting educators with the implementation of technology tools and resources that enhance student-centered, standards-based instruction.
  • Accessing, analyzing, and acting on school, classroom, and individual student data in support of quality tiered standards-based instruction.
  • Facilitating professional learning communities.
  • Collaboratively designing and executing targeted school-based professional development that is in alignment with the district’s Strategic Plan.
  • Attending and actively participating in all school-based Instructional Leadership Team meetings.
  • Attending and actively participating in all applicable district-based professional development to ensure connections are made between district initiatives and the instructional goals of the school’s improvement plan.
  • Actively engaging the school community to understand how everyone contributes to the execution of the district’s Strategic Plan to collectively raise student achievement.
  • Creating a school culture of reflective practice, high expectations, and continuous learning.
  • Developing partnerships with district and building administration, families, and community to support the improvement efforts of the school.
  • Consistently modeling high expectations for the quality of instruction and ensuring accessibility for all students.
  • Developing and nurturing a culture in which staff members are reflective about their practice and use student data, current research, best practices, and theory to continuously adapt.
  • Coaching and managing teams to create, monitor, and achieve district and school-based goals.
  • Delivering constructive feedback to educators that acknowledges effective practice and provides next steps that will impact teaching and learning.

Qualifications

• Has completed a minimum of 5 years of experience working directly with students, with most of the teaching experience in the content area to which the candidate is applying.
• Has a 95% attendance rate in a historical context from the academic year 2024-2025 and the academic year 2025-2026.
• Possesses a master's degree from an accredited college or university or will possess a master's degree within 1 year (9-12 credits of completion in an approved program is the minimum for a 1-year provisional appointment contingent on completion of the degree within a year).
• Possesses a professional teaching license from the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The license should reflect the content and grade-level of the position that the candidate is seeking to obtain in either English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
• Overall exemplary evaluation rating from a direct supervisor is preferred. A minimum of an overall proficient rating is required. These evaluations must come from the last two current years of employment.
• Demonstrate growth in student achievement based on assessments over the past one to two years.