PART-TIME INSTRUCTIONAL COACH - LOS ANGELES REGION

ABOUT INTERNATIONALS NETWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Internationals Network is a non-profit organization committed to challenging the status quo and ensuring equitable education for recently arrived adolescent multilingual learners (MLLs). With a 20-year history, Internationals Network partners with school teams, leaders, and systems to provide an education that prepares MLLs for college, career, and beyond. The organization's strategic plan for 2024-2029 focuses on enhancing and broadening their impact and building a more equitable and effective MLL ecosystem.

Strategic Plan: 2024-2029

Internationals Network is embarking on a strategic plan to enhance and broaden our impact over the next five years. The organization will focus on refining offerings, improving support for schools and academies, elevating impact through advocacy and research, and ensuring sustainability and team effectiveness. With a clear vision and plan, we aim to grow our annual budget, increase earned revenue, and secure ongoing philanthropic contributions to support our mission.

Internationals Network invites individuals who share our commitment to join us on this transformative journey. Through innovation, improvement, and strategic planning, we aim to deepen and expand our impact, ensuring that all recent immigrant students who are multilingual learners have access to an equitable education that prepares them for college, career, and beyond. We welcome you to be a part of our journey.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Internationals Network is currently seeking a passionate, skilled, and committed values-based educator to assume the role of Instructional Coach. The Instructional Coach plays a key role in the development of new schools and in supporting existing schools and programs by working with teachers, teacher teams, and school-based instructional coaches. The coach is part of a team that collaboratively supports individual school leaders to strengthen teachers’ capacity to use key elements of the Internationals Approach to foster higher levels of achievement for their multilingual learners. The coach meets regularly in-person with teachers and school-based coaches in schools affiliated with Internationals Network in Los Angeles, CA (and possibly in other regions of CA if interested). The coach also supports teachers, teacher teams, and school-based coaches in strengthening instructional support for MLLs and facilitates school-based and network-wide professional development workshops to support new and experienced teachers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Internationals coaches work individually and as a team to:
  • foster and facilitate school communities that reflect the Internationals Approach within and among schools supported by the Internationals Network;
  • provide leaders, coaches and teachers with concrete, practical, and immediately relevant resources;
  • encourage self-reflection;
  • engage in goal-driven conversations and evidence-based action.
• Provide coaching for secondary teachers from a variety of disciplines who teach in the International Newcomer Academies in LA; teachers teach courses in English and promote translanguaging throughout all courses.
• Employ a repertoire of coaching strategies for adult learners including real-time, side-by-side classroom coaching, co-planning, analysis of student work, sharing of pertinent resources, and observation and feedback that builds on teachers’ strengths and models student learning. These include Internationals-developed coaching cycles for teachers and teams.
• Support teachers in integrating English and native language development in content instruction using collaborative experiential projects across the curriculum.
• Review curricular materials and provide feedback on materials.
• Provide real-time group and individualized professional development and classroom coaching and high quality feedback to classroom teachers in all subject areas on teaching teams responsible for heterogeneous student cohorts.
• Model effective adult learning strategies and gradually release responsibility to instructional coaches or teacher leaders at partner schools.
• Collaborate in design and delivery of professional development, committees and working-groups for teachers and staff from across the Internationals network.
• Plan, facilitate, and create reports for school review walkthroughs and corresponding strategic planning sessions.
• Document work with school staff by preparing reports that reflect progress, milestones, challenges, and evaluate your own work as coach.
• Collaborating virtually and/or in person with other coaches to share challenges, innovations and successes; work through professional dilemmas using protocols; and engage in collaborative projects.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Master’s Degree in education.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of successful 6-8 or 9-12 classroom teaching experience, preferably with MLLs and diverse student populations.
• Skills and attributes:
  • Have a strong understanding of engaging, rigorous, project-based instruction that fosters both language development and academic content.
  • Experience with coaching or mentoring adult learners and ability to articulate understanding of effective approaches for doing so.
  • Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, with strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships on behalf of the organization; and to work collaboratively with a variety of staff members.
  • Ability to model continuous improvement, demonstrate professional growth, and apply new learning to help teachers succeed.
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to address issues as they arise.
  • Ability to react and respond to ambiguity and change productively.
  • Ability to multi-task assigned tasks from supervisor and be proactive in addressing unanticipated situations.
  • Capacity for developing and leading workshops for educators.
  • Be a flexible problem solver and effective communicator, both orally and in writing.

Location: Hybrid; Regular travel to LAUSD schools

Position Type: Part-time (3 days per week, re-evaluated annually depending on service demands)

Reports To: Director of School Support, California Region

BENEFITS AND SALARY

• The salary range for this part-time role is ($43,000 - 54,000) per year.
• Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience and percent time worked.
• 401(k) Retirement, and paid time off.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates should complete this form and upload their resume and a cover letter outlining their relevant experience and interest in the position by September 1.

Internationals Network is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

For more information on Internationals Network for Public Schools, visit our website at www.internationalsnetwork.org.