Who We Are

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 57,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 132 schools in the city of San Francisco every year. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose. Our goal is that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile. Every day in our quest to achieve this mission we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.

What It Means to Work Here

When you join our team at SFUSD you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused organization that approaches public education as a social justice movement, requiring broad collaboration across an array of strategic partners. In 2014, SFUSD created an inspiring statement, Vision 2025, which captures our aspirations and vision for the future of public education in San Francisco. Alongside the District’s strategic plan, Transform Learning. Transform Lives.SFUSD is reimagining how public education will change over the next decade to meet the dynamic future of San Francisco. As aCORE district, SFUSD is also a leader in critical systems change for more comprehensive school accountability and innovations that help strengthen the instructional core, which is the foundation of our strategic plan and Vision 2025.

Who We Want

While San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is one of the highest performing urban districts in California, the district continues to struggle with ensuring that students who are African American, Latino, Samoan, English Learners and/or Special Education achieve equitable outcomes. Recognizing this need, SFUSD is continuing to take important steps to disrupt student underachievement and to build the capacity of school communities to engage in continuous improvement and accelerate student outcomes.

A key element of the district’s theory of change is to ensure that teachers have multiple opportunities to engage in high quality professional learning, including opportunities to: receive job-embedded coaching and instructional guidance, reflect on instructional practices, and plan and collaborate with colleagues around short and long-term instructional goals based on demonstrated student work or data. SFUSD is seeking to identify a cadre of Literacy Coaches with deep content knowledge and a proven ability to positively support adult learners who will lead the district towards the development of a common vision for effective literacy instruction through providing teachers with direct instructional guidance and impactful professional development.

Literacy Coaches will either be “site-based” or will work across multiple sites, supporting teachers in both informal and in more formalized coaching cycles around an identified aspect of instructional practice. Coaches will serve up to ten additional work days (compensated accordingly), to participate in coaching network meetings to develop protocols, professional learning modules, and role-alike training in preparation for the start of the school year.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a valid Teaching Credential with English Learners authorization (CLAD or BCLAD) in one of the following:

• Multiple Subjects; Single Subject English; or any Single Subject Credential with a Specialist Credentials in Reading and Language Arts or the Reading Certificate or National Board for Professionals Teaching Standards in the area of Early and Middle Childhood/Literacy: Reading – Language Arts
• Certification as “Highly Qualified” per the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 2001 (ESEA)
• Outstanding and /or Highly Satisfactory Summary Evaluations
• At least three years of classroom teaching experience with demonstrated effectiveness in the subject matter, use of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Desired Qualifications

Familiarity with the components of SFUSD’s Comprehensive Approach to Literacy (reading workshop, writing workshop, word study, interactive read-aloud, etc.) and the SFUSD ELA PK-12 Core Curriculum.

• Leadership/coaching experience in the subject matter through participation in professional organizations, district and state initiatives (e.g. SFUSD ELA teacher leadership, Early/Extended Literacy Initiative, mentor teacher, Master Teacher Program, BTSA provider, Instructional Reform Facilitator, Humanities R&D group participant, or previous Superintendent’s Zone Instructional Coaching position)
• Successful experience working with a diverse adult and student population; track record of success in an urban school setting
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and modeling of lessons in subject matter
• Experience in group facilitation and conducting professional development in the subject matter
• Experience and knowledge in how to use programs and/or materials as instructional resources
• Demonstrates understanding of the Gradual Release of Responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with district and school-based administrators
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; high degree of organization and effective time management
• History of successful instruction with educationally and socially underserved communities
• Skillful in analyzing student assessment data, instructional planning and professional development of teachers
• Credentialed by California as a teacher or administrator
• Record of positive demeanor and collaborative success
• Bilingually proficient (speaking, reading, writing) in Cantonese or Spanish

What We Offer

SFUSD is committed to attracting and retaining the best educators in the nation. Benefits of teaching in San Francisco include:

• Competitive salaries determined by experience, education level, and credentials
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance for teachers and their eligible dependents
• City and state programs for housing assistance:
• Teacher Next Door Program:
• MyHome Assistance Program:
• Additional salary stipend of $5000 for National Board Certified teachers
• Additional salary stipend of $2000 for credentialed teachers teaching in high potential schools and a $1000 stipend for teachers teaching hard to fill subject areas

How to Apply

• Create an account and complete an application.

Please check back often to connect your application to specific openings as they are posted. Applicants will be contacted based on the needs of the district.

Non-Discrimination Policy

San Francisco Unified School District programs, activities, and practices shall be free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression; or on the basis of a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. This policy extends to San Francisco County Office of Education, including community school programs and activities.