2025-26 Middle School Instructional Coach: STEM

About Us

Brilla Schools, a growing K-8 network in the Bronx, serves over 2,000 students with plans to expand to educate 3,000 across four elementary and four middle schools. Managed by Seton Education Partners, Brilla Schools are dedicated to forming students of strong wisdom and virtue.  Our classically inspired approach to education combines a content-rich curriculum, inquiry-driven learning, and a focus on virtues, while providing individualized support to meet each child’s unique needs.  A national leader in character education and supporting students with varying needs, over the past two years, Brilla alumni have secured spots in the most prestigious high schools in the tri-state area, earning over $3 million in scholarships and financial aid. Our staff are mission-aligned change-makers who believe in fostering a joyful, rigorous learning environment, and Brilla offers some of the most competitive salaries in the market to honor their dedication. With high expectations and a supportive community, we’re preparing students to excel in high school, college, and beyond.

Position Overview
The Middle School STEM Instructional Coach is a full-time member of the school leadership team who supports teachers in aligning instruction with Brilla’s curricular and instructional vision, ensuring student mastery of academic targets across science, math, and technology-related disciplines.  Supervised by the Assistant Principal, the STEM Instructional Coach acts as the primary content expert and pedagogical leader for all STEM components within the school. This includes ensuring vertical and horizontal curriculum alignment, providing targeted coaching and professional development, analyzing student achievement data, and developing and adapting curriculum materials to meet Brilla’s Classical model and the needs of all learners.  The ideal candidate has deep STEM content expertise, thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments, and is passionate about data-informed, inquiry-driven learning that integrates Brilla’s emphasis on Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.

This position requires a positive, flexible, solutions-oriented, organized, and reflective leader who can balance multiple roles and responsibilities with grace and virtue. Instructional Coaches work daily with teachers and in close collaboration with the Assistant Principal, Principal, and Brilla Network Academics Team to ensure that curricular materials are consistently adapted and implemented to meet the needs of teachers and the classroom. In addition to planning and coaching requirements, Instructional Coaches maintain materials inventories and requisitioning, attend regular content meetings, and actively deepen their own knowledge of content, standards, and Classical pedagogy. Brilla Instructional Coaches daily support teachers through active observation, live coaching and must have a deep appreciation for inductive, inquiry-driven, data-informed, student-engaged learning. They must offer as well as accept, implement, and seek feedback. They will manage multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities, while inspiring outstanding achievement in a joyful, vigorous, and collaborative work environment.

Core Competencies & Responsibilities

• Conduct classroom observations and provide real-time coaching and actionable feedback to improve instructional practice and student outcomes.
• Design and facilitate campus-based and cross-network professional development sessions focused on STEM content knowledge, instructional best practices, and data-informed action planning.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Principal and Instructional Leadership Team to analyze student achievement data and build intervention plans that target learning gaps and drive academic growth.
• Develop, adapt, and internalize STEM curricula that align with New York State standards and Brilla’s Classical vision of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.
• Guide teachers in unit and lesson internalization meetings that deepen content mastery and pedagogical technique across grade levels.
• Serve as the school’s resident STEM content expert by modeling best instructional practices and continuously building your own content and pedagogical depth.
• Manage assessment preparation and implementation, including quality assurance, scheduling, teacher training, and data analysis for NWEA, NYS exams, and internal benchmarks.
• Build strong relationships with teachers, students, and families while modeling Brilla’s core virtues of courage, wisdom, justice, and self-control in all interactions.
• Engage with other Instructional Coaches and the Brilla Network Academics Team to ensure interdisciplinary alignment, pacing fidelity, and best practice sharing.
• Support classroom material inventory, maintain instruction