Early Childhood Class Coach

Position Description:

• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach ensures young children receive high-quality instruction. The Early Childhood CLASS Coach leads the development and improvement for teachers through planning,modeling, observing, and providing feedback.
• The Early Childhood CLASS Coach provides training and support to schools and early childhood sites.
• The Coach serves as the instructional expert and provides support on assessment, curriculum, high-quality interactions, and the science of teaching in early childhood education.

Scope of Responsibility:

• Provide high-quality professional development around effective early education practices and the foundations of effective interactions in early education.
• Provide feedback, engage in one-on-one coaching, and model best practices.
• Coordinate and support instructional leaders and teachers to fully implement high quality
• interactions.
• Identify where high-quality interactions and built-in supports are not being maximized
• Model and teach new effective interactions with embedded instructional support strategies.
• Coach teachers on using high-quality, evidence-based assessments to determine the most
• effective interventions, including full implementation of Teaching Strategies GOLD.
• Facilitate professional development for teachers.
• Observe teachers, provide feedback, and identify next steps to improve instructional support
• strategies for the purpose of support and not evaluation.
• Monitor and coordinate interventions conducted by the classroom teacher.
• Model and teach exemplar interactions when appropriate.
• Support lesson preparation using high-quality curriculum.
• Model and support high-quality interactions with students
• Analyze data, identify trends, and support teachers to adjust instruction based on data.
• Communicate a belief in all students’ abilities to become successful learners.
• Attend all required meetings and trainings.
• Communicate with leadership team on school-wide curriculum progress.

Physical Involvement:

• Movement throughout early childhood and preschool classrooms is required most of each workday.
• Must be able to operate office equipment.
• Standing, walking, reaching, bending, and lifting up to 10 pounds is sometimes required. Ability to provide own transportation to schools, work locations, and meeting sites.
• Mobility skills necessary to access a variety of work locations, including locations not on the ground floor.

Skills and Qualifications:
Successful candidates will be detail-oriented, independent self-starters who demonstrate an unwavering commitment to raising student achievement and who have a record of high performance in challenging situations and will also demonstrate:

• Minimum of three (3) years teaching experience as a certified Early Childhood teacher
• Knowledge and experience with Frog Street’s approach to instruction for young children
• Knowledge and experience with a CLASS approach to effective instructional support interactions
• Successful and documentable experience that impacted student achievement
• Strong knowledge of how young children develop and learn
• High degree of professionalism with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities while
• consistently demonstrating sound judgment and disciplined thinking
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to organize and motivate people and to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others
• Possess integrity, initiative, and good moral character
• Demonstrate ability to relate to students, staff, administration, parents, and community
• Possess desirable attributes of personality, enthusiasm, and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of working with diverse individuals at all levels to drive decision-making and results
• Ability to be visionary and strategic is essential.
• Understanding of regulations regarding the operation of Louisiana schools including but not limited to Bulletins 741,1530,1706,130, 140, and 1508

Desirable Qualifications:

• Master’s or advanced degree in Education preferred

Compensation:

• JPPSS offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience.
• JPPSS also offers a competitive benefits package.