Fast Facts

City Arts and Leadership is seeking an experienced ELA and Humanities Instructional Coach to enhance teaching practices in a diverse college preparatory school environment.

Responsibilities: The Coach will support teachers in exemplary pedagogy, conduct professional development, analyze data, and lead classroom observations to improve instruction and student achievement.

Skills: Strong background in English Language Arts and Humanities, experience in curriculum development, and ability to lead professional learning communities are required.

Qualifications: Candidates must hold a valid California Teaching Credential, possess a Bachelor's Degree, and have 5+ years experience as an instructional coach or teacher with a record of student achievement, especially in diverse settings.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $90000 - $105000 / Annually

City Arts and Leadership seeks an experienced ELA and Humanities Instructional Coach to lead teachers to success in a diverse college-prep school community.

THE POSITION

The ELA and Humanities Instructional Coach will report directly to the assigned site Principal and will matrix to the Senior Director of Academics at our Support Office. The Coach is a member of the School Site Instructional Teams, and is charged with supporting teachers with delivering exemplary pedagogy to all students within their subject area of expertise. The Coach provides leadership and assistance in implementing student work analysis, intellectual prep, curriculum adoption, analyzing formative assessment data, and conducting professional development for enhancing teaching strategies with the goal of ensuring that every teacher is delivering rigorous, grade level appropriate instruction. The Coach will also lead the development of aligned unit and lesson plans, support instructional inquiry cycles, design and deliver exemplary professional development, and model lessons and pedagogical strategies in classrooms as needed. The Coach will also provide mentorship and context coaching for teachers going through their intern or induction years. The highly successful candidate has a love of teaching and learning, deep content knowledge, expertise with designing standards-based curriculum and delivering rigorous and equitable instruction to diverse learner groups, and a passion for closing the opportunity gap for students. 

WHO WE ARE

Our mission is to transform the lives of students - especially those who will be the first in their family to attend college - by preparing them for success in college, career, and life. Envision Education currently operates four small schools in San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward, as well as a national educational consulting firm called Envision Learning Partners. Envision Education has made an explicit commitment to becoming an exemplar network of schools with an instructional and cultural vision rooted in an anti-racist and pro-Black framework. The following represents Envision Schools’ vision for 21st-century skills, character traits, and cognitive and social-emotional skills that learners need for success in college, career, and life.

• Knowledge and Love of Self and Land
• Collectivism
• Critical Thinking
• Self Determination
• Criticality
• Leadership

WHO YOU ARE

• You are equity-focused. You are unapologetic about your deeply held belief that all children can achieve. You believe that anti-racist and pro-Black practices and frameworks are essential to change the status quo for all students.
• You are collaborative. You make decisions in partnership with others, focused on what is best for the students.
• You are invested in our core values. You hold high expectations for the entire school community. You examine your own biases in your pursuit of equity for all.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be a Champion for excellence in English Language Arts and Humanities!
• Work with Principals to Identify and support coherent resources and guidance for curriculum, instruction and assessment
• Engage in weekly classroom observations cycles, intellectual prep, and student work analysis with teachers
• Facilitate professional learning communities and instructional rounds, analyze data and articulate progress across the content area, reflect on teacher practice and analyze student work (e.g., classroom video, lesson plans, student work, audio recordings, observations, teacher narratives), to plan next steps to improve teacher practice, and to reflect on student learning and growth. 
• Support the writing of lesson plans for long term substitutes
• Support school leaders and teachers with the implementation of rigorous, data driven summative and formative assessments by partnering in facilitating the administration, scoring, and data analysis of academic assessments.
• Lead demo-lessons, book studies, and trainings during PD days and intersession PD.
• Align school-site PLCs to organizational goals and instructional priorities by backwards mapping curriculum, instruction, and goals from the Common Core State Standards.
• Engage and collaborate with Special Education team to ensure all teachers are effectively implementing IEP accommodations, modifications, and are planning with all students in min
• Implement and support the teacher observation and feedback schedule as well as regular teacher feedback and support meetings 
• Support teachers who are in various pathway programs (National Board, Teacher credentialing, induction)
• Manage the delivery of systems for teachers to use data in their planning and instruction and for that data to be shared with students
• In collaboration with other Instructional Leaders and Data & Assessment team members, analyze academic performance data for patterns. Develop next steps and action plans for effective teaching and learning cycles with teachers.

Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Required: Valid Clear California Teaching Credential
• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years as a highly successful instructional coach at the middle and/or high school level. 
• 5+ years as a highly successful teacher with a proven track record of breakthrough student achievement results. 
• 5+ years of experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and/or under-resourced communities
• Demonstrated experience delivering high quality instruction in a full inclusion Special Education setting
• Commitment to the mission of Envision Education.
• Commitment to anti-racist and pro-Black pedagogy. 
• Demonstrated experience using data to lead decision making processes
• Motivated, self-starter who is able to work independently and be a great team member
• Ability to deliver strong work and lead decision making, even in uncertainty and/or ambiguity.

LOCATION

This position is onsite.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

This is a 12 month role. The salary for this role is $90,000-$105,000 and is dependent upon years of aligned experience and credentials.

This role includes an annual $5,000 City Arts and Leadership Supplement in addition to the salary.

• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation time.
• Excellent health benefits package with employer contribution to benefits.
• Optional Flexible Benefits Plan including dependent care, medical care, parking, and commuter benefits.
• Retirement system from STRS.
• 403b Plan.
• Life Insurance at no cost to employee.
• Access to ongoing opportunities for learning, professional, and leadership opportunities.

If you are offered this position, your pay will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, Envision Education complies with applicable pay equity laws and considers internal equity among current employees when developing the final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the base range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package.

As an equal opportunity employer, we believe deeply in diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all people. Envision Education recruits, employs, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and the many other characteristics that make us diverse.