(1.0 FTE) Instructional Coach Middle School

Position Type:

Instructional Coach

Date Posted:

5/21/2025

Location:

Northwood Middle School

Date Available:

08/18/2025

Closing Date:

Until Filled

Our Mission:

The mission of North Shore School District 112, a community partnership committed to a world-class education, is to nurture every child to become an inspired learner, a well-rounded individual and contributing member of a global community by striving for excellence within an environment that fosters innovation, respect, engagement and intellectual inquiry.

Primary Function:

The Instructional Coach will work as a colleague with classroom teachers to support student learning. The Instructional Coach will develop the capacity of individuals and teams to continuously improve and expand research-based effective instruction that will enable staff to diagnose student needs more analytically, plan more productively, and teach more effectively. In order to meet this purpose, the instructional coach will provide support that is based on the collaboratively identified goals and needs of individual teachers and teams of teachers.

General Responsibilities:

The criterion indicated below are intended to describe various types of work that may be performed. The exclusion of specific responsibilities does not prohibit them if the work is similar, related, or a logical task of the position.

Classroom Supporter (Partner)

Co-teaches and models strategies and techniques that ensure rigorous core instruction for all learners

Co-plans instructional units with teachers using backward design and effective instructional practices

Observes teachers and provides feedback with a focus on students’ academic achievement

Conducts teacher-driven conversations to promote reflection and to identify next steps.

Provides timely and specific feedback that helps learners grow and improve instructional practices

Instructional Specialist

Understands effective instructional practices, instructs teachers in these practices, and models the practices

Supports teachers’ individual and group efforts to meet all students’ needs and to implement core instruction

Supports teachers in using differentiated instruction

Helps teachers select and implement appropriate instructional practices

Leads district and building professional development

Leads professional development for new staff during new teacher orientation

Data Coach

Supports teachers’ use of data to determine appropriate instruction

Helps teachers understand state standards for proficiency at all grade levels and in all content areas

Helps teachers use multiple sources of data

Helps teachers use student work to identify information about their learning (formative assessment).

Facilitates individual and group reflections about student growth

Learning Facilitator

Develops relationships with adults that lead to increased rigor, change in practice, reflection, and schoolwide collective efficacy that promote student achievement

Plans for high-quality professional learning that is integrated and embedded into day-to-day teaching and learning, and that aligns with the school and district visions and missions

Facilitates teacher collaboration through structured learning opportunities and coaching conversations

Uses local, state, national standards and research to design and deliver professional learning

Actively learns and engages in professional reading and research to keep current and regularly shares new ideas with teachers and administrators

Evaluation:

Performance will be evaluated in accordance with the Teacher Evaluation Plan.

Qualifications:

Illinois Professional Educator License

Preferred Bilingual Spanish speaking skills

Required - Endorsements in any of the following: Reading specialist, MS Mathematics, MS Language Arts, elementary education, LBS1, ESL, or teacher leader

Required - Four years of classroom teaching experience

The employee must have foundational knowledge of district curricular standards and targets; State of Illinois learning standards; best practices in teaching; differentiated instruction; successful classroom management strategies; and other related curriculum objectives.

Education Requirements:

The employee shall possess the equivalent of a Master’s Degree; completion of a teacher preparation program through an accredited university or college.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel instructional materials and classroom tools. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The employee shall possess personal computing skills with the following types of software including web browsers, word processing, spreadsheet, and databases and student database systems. The employee shall use board approved resources, classroom textbooks, teacher manuals, technology, and assistive technology. While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a classroom setting with children, occasionally works in outdoor weather conditions, and is subject to noises associated with an educational environment.

Working Conditions:

Salary: Per NSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement, plus excellent benefits, TRS Retirement Pension Service Credit, paid sick, personal, and bereavement leave.

Application Procedure:

Apply on line by completing the on line application and uploading support materials. PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS.

Selection Procedure:

The Assistant Superintendent for Teaching & Learning will review on line applications and supporting materials and the principal will call individuals in for interviews. After initial interviews, candidates meet with the Director of Personnel Services who may recommend the individual for hire by the Board of Education.

The North Shore School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer