Multi-Classroom Leader pool

General Definition of Work

An educator in the Multi-Classroom Leader® (MCL) role leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teaching residents in the same grade or subject to meet the standards of excellence. These team leaders establish each team member’s roles and goals at least annually, determine how students spend time, and organize teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The team uses its leader’s methods and tools. Each team leader co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches and gives feedback, and leads and supports the team in building a tutoring culture. They also teach students part of the time. The leader organizes the team to analyze student learning data and change instruction to ensure high-growth learning for every child, with a focus on small-group teaching and tutoring. The leader collaborates with the team, using the team’s ideas and innovations that the leader agrees may improve learning. The leader also guides and directs any paraprofessional with whom they work. The team leader is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team members.

Qualifications

• Mastery of teaching skills evidenced by a track record of  “accomplished” or holds advanced license Masters/ NBCT
• Valid teaching certificate (optional, depending on school context and legal requirements)
• Has achieved an average EVAAS growth index of 1.5 or higher over the past three data years, with no year below 0 
• If EVASS data is unavailable candidate must provide clear evidence that they have closed achievement gaps with their student population and/ or helped other educators to become more successful 
• Provides Data narrative outlining strategies and practices used to achieve high growth
• Demonstrated interpersonal and group effectiveness working with adults and students, including interpersonal understanding and action to maintain relationships needed for success in a school or similar environment.

Responsibilities 

Planning and Preparation

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for all students taught by team
• Establish methods and create instructional tools and materials that team teachers use in all classrooms
• Set direction, verbally and with tools and materials, that clarify content and teaching process 
• Lead team to:

• plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments using a high-standards curriculum 
• design and lead instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students), prioritizing small-group teaching and tutoring and offering accelerated learning
• design assessments that accurately assess student growth
• prepare to deliver small-group teaching and tutoring

Classroom Environment

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious and measurable 
• create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
• establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport 

Instruction

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement
• maximize student learning by incorporating small-group teaching and tutoring 
• identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers
• identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-management skills
• invest students in their learning using a variety of influence techniques
• incorporate questioning and discussion in teaching
• monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform engaging instruction and small-group teaching and tutoring 
• communicate with students and keep them informed of their progress

Professional Responsibilities

• Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills
• Engage in regular coaching cycles with team teachers 
• Lead team to maintain regular communication with families, and work collaboratively with them to design learning both at home and at school, and to encourage a home life conducive to learning success
• Organize and schedule team time to ensure alignment of instructional vision, prioritize data-driven targeted instruction, and small-group teaching in all classrooms, and troubleshoot students’ persistent learning challenges
• Allocate instructional process elements (lesson planning, minimal large-group instruction, a focus on small-group instruction, individual interventions, data analysis, grading, etc.) among team based on strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals
• Allocate noninstructional administrative duties among team 
• Model instructional tasks to aid team development
• Clarify and adjust team members’ roles and provide feedback, developmental advice, and assignments to develop their effectiveness
• Actively participate in professional development opportunities offered by the school and district

Multi-Classroom Leader® Role—Critical Competencies