Bilingual Elementary Instructional Coach

Job Title: Bilingual Campus Level Instructional Coach/ RTI

Job-Type: Full-time

Contract Days: 210 Days

Reports to: Campus Principal

Salary: See Teacher Pay Scale $12,000 Stipend

Required Education/Certification:

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• Master’s Degree (Preferred)
• Valid Texas teaching certificate
• 5 years of classroom teaching experience (Required0
• Demonstrated significant academic achievement with scholars
  
  

ABOUT WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: Wayside Schools is an open-enrollment, tuition-free PreK3-12th grade public charter school

network that provides over 1,900 scholars across its four South Austin campuses with a rigorous education. Since 2012, Wayside

Schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academic

skills, intellectual habits and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four-year colleges and

universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and

empower the families and communities to which they belong.

Job Goals

The instructional coach serves as a guide, collaborator, and consultant to support teachers’ professional growth and development,

with the goal of improving scholar achievement across all content areas. This role provides teachers with strategies and resources

aligned to content standards to enhance instructional practices and increase teaching and learning proficiency. Additionally, the

instructional coach dedicates 50% of their time to working directly with teachers and scholars in Tier II and Tier III Response to

Intervention (RTI), ensuring that scholars receive appropriate interventions, services, and supports, while modeling instruction,

teaching small groups, and providing targeted support to meet student needs.

Skill Requirements:

• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills for building an environment with a common instructional focus
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate the ability to design and deliver quality professional development for administrators and teachers.
• Demonstrate knowledge of collaborative models for individual teachers and teams as they develop goals for growth.
• Demonstrate knowledge of vertical and horizontal curriculum alignment
• Demonstrate ability to support work across grade levels in all content areas
• Demonstrated previous coaching or teacher leadership experience and a strong commitment to continued personal growth
• Demonstrated experience with the coaching cycle, including developing lessons with teachers, pre-conferencing with teachers, modeling lessons with/for teachers, observing teachers,
  
  

and structuring activities with teachers that are designed to enhance instructional delivery in the classroom, and post-conferencing with teachers.

• Demonstrated experience in research-based instructional practices.
  
  

Performance Requirements:

• Plan and implement professional development opportunities that are based on an analysis of scholar performance indicators and are aligned with current research.
• Ability to establish trust and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Coach teachers by developing lessons, pre-conferencing with teachers, modeling lessons with/for teachers, observing teachers, structuring activities with teachers that are designed to
  
  

enhance instructional delivery in the classroom, and post-conferencing with teachers.

• Assist teachers with disaggregating and interpreting assessment data for all scholars, using available resources and technology, with an emphasis on identified subgroup populations
  
  

and to plan effective instruction.

• Conference with teachers using data to effectively inform instruction.
• Positively impact overall scholar achievement through targeted coaching and professional development.
• Participate in weekly scheduled campus professional development.
• Collaborate with other curriculum & academic coaches to develop a comprehensive coaching program geared toward educator excellence and innovation.
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Physical Effort and Work Environment:

• Services are generally provided within a standard classroom environment.
• Some movement throughout the classroom is generally necessary to facilitate learning (e.g., standing, walking, stooping, bending, sitting, and/or kneeling).
• Light lifting of materials and other objects associated with a classroom environment is required (e.g., books, teaching aids, up to approximately 20 – 40 lbs.).
• Candidate should be willing to contribute directly or indirectly to the development of children both inside and outside the classroom, which may include working hours in addition to the
  
  

regular school day.

• Regular attendance is required for this position.
  
  

Personal Work Relationships:

• Candidate receives administrative supervision and is typically evaluated formally one time per year.
• Candidate has significant contact with scholars and other school staff to provide instruction, offer guidance and exchange information.
  
  

Additional Information:

This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Wayside Schools has the exclusive right to

alter this job description at any time without notice. This position is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). From time to time the employee may work an extended

schedule, including weekends and evenings according to demands of the role and tasks. In accordance with applicable laws and Wayside Schools policies, no person shall be excluded from consideration for recruitment, selection, appointment, training, promotion, retention or any other personnel action, or be denied any benefits or participation in any educational programs or activities which it operates on the grounds of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or veteran status (except where age, sex, or disability constitutes a bona fide occupational qualification necessary to proper and efficient administration). All new employees must present proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States. The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.

Benefits:

• Free Health Insurance, including major medical, dental, vision, and life (Employee Only)
• Sustainability Fridays
• Free Pre-K for Staff Children
• Professional Development and Coaching
• 403(b) plan
• Texas Retirement System Plan
• Stipends for candidates who meet special program qualifications