Part-time Effectiveness Coach

Northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado

TNTP seeks a Part-time Effectiveness Coach to work up to 25 hours a week, supporting teams across the organization. This position may be based in a home office anywhere in the U.S.

WHO WE ARE
TNTP brings research, policy, and consulting together to reimagine America’s public education system. We are a fully remote, national organization of over 600 full-time TNTPers with expertise from a variety of fields, united by the vision to change outcomes for all students. Working collaboratively, we dig into educators’ toughest challenges, and we provide actionable solutions grounded in evidence. This work takes place in schools and districts across the country, and our national position allows us to spot trends, collect and analyze data, and advocate for policy changes that introduce greater impact at scale. We work across sectors and partner with school systems to ensure that the 3.5 million young people who graduate high school every year have pathways to economic and social mobility. 

Learn more about us, what we do, and working here.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO
As a Part-time Effectiveness Coach you will play a critical role in TNTP's teacher development initiatives and program by coaching program participants. You will be responsible for the performance of the teachers in your caseload, developing teachers to reach their full potential.

Here are some examples of what a Part-time Effectiveness Coach might do:  

• Develop and execute a data-driven and comprehensive coaching strategy that supports retention and improved performance of teachers in multiple schools, networks, and districts across a variety of schools/contracts.

• Directly develop a caseload of teachers through responsive coaching, training and modeling, ensuring that teachers rapidly improve their performance and are inclusive of the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the students they teach

• Build trusting partnerships with teachers that feel inclusive and honor diverse perspectives

• Facilitate trainings on and demonstrate instructional techniques using research-backed best practices and instructional models

• Leading a team of summer pre-service training staff, ensuring that new teachers are effectively prepared for a strong start to the school year

• Identifying and implementing innovative solutions for improving teachers’ overall performance to meet contract goals

• Designing and delivering content specific sessions and lead teacher study groups focused on all contents, teacher professional development

• Design standards-aligned, content specific sessions for teacher professional development

• Supporting teachers by providing feedback on lessons and assessments that align with standards

• Regularly communicate with school leaders, school-based coaches/mentors, and other stakeholders to provide consistent developmental support for teachers on your caseload

• Supporting TNTP’s broader teacher development initiatives, proposing and crafting long-term, standards aligned teacher development strategies and services

WHAT YOU BRING 
First and foremost, we are looking for amazing people who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission, and are highly motivated to change children's lives through education.  We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, and the people around you to the next level.

We expect our Effectiveness Coaches to: 

• Have classroom experience. You have at least two years of teaching experience (preferably in a high-need school) and a proven track record of raising student achievement. You have strong familiarity and expertise with the Common Core State Standards and/or the state standards. (highly preferred). 

• Know great teaching when they see it. Whether you are watching a teacher deliver a lesson or looking at student performance data, you can identify where that teacher is effective and what they need to do to improve immediately and in the long-term.

• Develop teachers. You track and analyze teacher data, but it’s what you do with it that reall