Elementary Instructional Coach (Immediate)

Company Description

Salary Range: BA Scale $55,000-$90,000 | MA+ Scale $60,000-$98,000 

About KIPP Nashville Public Schools 

KIPP Nashville Public Schools is a network of high-performing, free, open-enrollment K-12 schools that has been committed to positively affecting student outcomes in Nashville since 2005. KIPP Nashville is part of the acclaimed KIPP Network, which educates 100,000+ students nationwide and supports students from Pre-Kindergarten through college, career and beyond. Through the KIPP Forward program, our team helps students identify their career of highest aspiration and develop the skills and confidence to chase their dreams. KIPP Nashville currently operates 4 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, and 2 high schools and educates over 3,000 students in the Nashville metropolitan area.

The mission of KIPP Nashville is together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. Our core values are GROWTH, TEAM, and SHINE. If you share in these beliefs and values, if you have a proven willingness to do what it takes for students to be their best, if you thrive in an environment that is both collaborative and entrepreneurial, then you are already a KIPPster.

Job Description

Responsibilities of the Instructional Coach will include, but are not limited to:

• Student Culture
  • Work closely with the Principal to establish a loving, structured, and achievement-oriented school culture
  • Facilitate faculty training and support around discipline, relationships, expectations, consistency, and management
  • Coordinate and implement a school-wide discipline system with meaningful incentives and consequences in multi-class settings (i.e. buses, arrival, dismissal, breakfast, lunch, and recess)
  • Conduct regular school culture walkthroughs and audits to help staff maintain a high bar of excellence
  • Problem-solve with students, teachers, and families to improve behavior of individual students over time
• Instructional Excellence and Managemen
  • Provide weekly one-on-one coaching for teachers on classroom culture, management, and instruction.
  • Lead content internalization sessions to deepen instructional knowledge.
  • Deliver school-wide instructional professional development.
  • Provide feedback on aims and assessments weekly
  • Conduct weekly data and planning/internalization meetings with teachers after each benchmark assessment, and monitor overall academic progress for students
  • Internalize and adapt grade-level scopes and sequences as needed.
  • Support the Principal in coordinating and managing state and interim assessments.
  • Knowledgeable about the science of reading and the foundations of literacy. 
  • Strong understanding of the conceptual framework for mathematics. 
• Growth Mindset
  • Willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to change and improvement
  • Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, including pre-service training over the summer and weekly during the academic year
• Other
  • Assist with daily school operations, including lunch, arrival, dismissal, and class coverage.
  • Carry out any additional daily school duties as decided upon by the Principal
  • Ensure effective field lessons, school events, and extracurricular activities
  • Model school core values and character strengths at all times
  • Support the behavior support team with behaviors across K-4

Qualifications

Required Experience

• Evidence of significant and consistent personal and professional achievement
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• 4+ year(s) of experience as a classroom teacher with a proven record of high achievement AND
• 1+ year(s) experience leading and/or coaching teachers, including but limited to roles such as Assistant Principal, Principal, Dean of Instruction, Dean of Academics, Instructional Coach, Teacher Coach, etc.
• Clear understanding of culturally responsive pedagogy and leadership
• Experience teaching or supporting English Language Learners, preferred

Desired Characteristics

• Unwavering commitment to KIPP Nashville’s mission, students, families, and community
• Excellent communication skills with diverse constituents; clear writer, facilitator and speaker and eagerness to collaborate
• Demonstrate commitment