Job Description:

General Description:

Work collaboratively with the school principal, District Master Teacher and the school leadership team to analyze student data and create and implement an academic achievement plan for the school. Academic Coaches lead cluster groups and provide demonstration lessons, coaching, model teaching and team teaching to career teachers. They also spend time working directly with students and teachers on strategies to improve student achievement and instructional effectiveness. Academic Coaches conduct follow up support activities with career teachers to support implementation of new instructional strategies and conduct teacher evaluations.

Qualifications:

1.       Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, Master’s preferred.

2.       Valid Arizona teaching certificate.

3.       Strong organizational, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills.

4.       Extensive knowledge of curriculum and instruction appropriate for grade level campus assignment and core subject area.

5.       Ability to provide high quality instruction to students and communicate with peers and supervisors in a collegial coaching atmosphere.

6.       Extensive knowledge of instructional technology integration with core curriculum.

7.       Ability to interpret data especially for the purposes of instructional decision-making.

8.       Effective presentation skills such as classroom demonstrations, team teaching, model teaching

9.       Student data that illustrates the teachers’s ability to increase student achievement through utilizing specific instructional strategies and interventions.

10.   Experience providing professional development to adult learners preferred.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.       Participate in the leadership team with responsibilities to include but not limited to:

o   analyzing student data to identify student learning goals;

o   developing a school academic achievement plan;

o   coordinating a cluster assessment plan with the school assessment plan;

o   monitoring goal-setting and activities;

o   classroom follow up and goal attainment for cluster groups and Individual Growth Plans (IGPs);

o   assess teacher evaluation results and

o   support inter-rater reliability.

$2,000 Sign On BONUS

Full coverage Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance paid by the district.