Coach/ Trainer

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Posted:

September 11, 2025

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Dr. Shemone Howard-Phillips

Educational Leader

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Dynamic and results-driven educational leader committed to fostering high-quality teaching and learning through strategic leadership, effective coaching and mentoring of educators, and collaborative stakeholder engagement. Adept at aligning school goals with budgetary planning to ensure sustainable growth and academic excellence. Seeking to leverage my experience in instructional leadership, fiscal responsibility, and community partnership to drive systemic improvement and elevate student outcomes. Employment history

Early Head Start/Head Start Coaching Manager, Jul 2023 - Present Kidango Education Children in Spring Our Future, Fremont, CA

• Supervises a team of coaches, including weekly individual and team reflective supervision meetings, supporting coaches’ ongoing growth and professional development, and ensuring coaches are accountable for meeting job expectations and providing excellent coaching support to teachers.

• Assist in co-creating a vision for the purpose and function of coaching at Kidango, codesign a transparent model for coaching at Kidango, and ensure its successful implementation and ongoing fidelity.

• Support coaches in establishing collaborative coaching relationships with teachers, including focused classroom observation, reflection and feedback, goal setting, and active planning.

• Honors and exemplifies Kidango’s organizational values and values for children.

• Work closely with Regional Directors, Center Directors, and the Professional Learning team to create and provide onsite classroom-based coaching, training, and technical assistance that meets the overall needs of the classroom and individual children, supporting continuous quality improvement.

• Work closely with the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation team and the Early Intervention and Inclusion Supports team to ensure coaching is aligned with Kidango’s whole-child, whole-family interdisciplinary model of human development.

• Support data collection efforts to document teachers’ growth and gauge coaching effectiveness and teacher professional development.

• Provide training for coaches, master coaches, and teachers on Kidango’s coaching model.

• Complete assigned professional development training.

• Maintain confidentiality of children, families, and staff.

• Reframing the coaching department, creating Standard of practice documents.

• Provide an excellent customer experience for all staff, families, and partners.

• Advocate on behalf of all children and families. Educational Coach, Nov 2020 - Jul 2023

Kidango Education Children In Spring Our Future, Fremont, CA

• The Coach, who reports to the Senior Regional Director, is responsible for supporting teaching staff in implementing the program's policies, procedures, and goals and providing training, technical assistance, and coaching to individuals and teaching teams regarding best classroom practices.

• Observe classrooms and collect data using research-based tools and methods.

• Design training, coaching, and technical assistance based on data.

• Participate in the design and implementation of program quality improvement initiatives.

• Manage special projects.

Educational Coach, Oct 2018 - Nov 2020

YMCA OF THE EAST BAY-EARLY CHILDHOOD IMPACT, Berkeley, CA

• The Coach, who reports to the Program Manager-Education, is responsible for supporting teaching staff in implementing the program's policies, procedures, and goals and providing training, technical assistance, and coaching to individuals and teaching teams regarding best classroom practices.

• Observe classrooms and collect data using research-based tools.

• Design training, coaching, and technical assistance based on data.

• Participate in the design and implementation of program quality improvement initiatives.

• Manage special projects.

Lead Preschool Teacher /Early Intervention Counselor II/Back up Site Supervisor-part time, Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

Therapeutic Nursery School, East Bay Agency For Children, Oakland, CA

• Assist children in the management of disruptive, assaultive, and out-of-control behavior.

• Provide crisis intervention utilizing multiple therapeutic behavior interventions, including the use of physical restraint.

• Helping children manage program transitions, including to and from buses, is applicable.

• Collaborate with teaching staff to support their classroom activities.

• Carry out specialized group and individual activities with children.

• Record progress notes on Medicare billing and other charting requirements as necessary promptly.

• Participate in staff meetings, training, and treatment planning and clinical reviews.

• Consult with Program Director, Clinicians, and classroom staff on individual children’s progress.

• Participate in overall program development as a member of the treatment team.

• Maintain program supplies as appropriate for specialized projects such as Shop, Expressive Arts, and Skills groups.

• Periodic driving of preschool students to and from preschool in a min-van size van. FAMILY ADVOCATE, Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

YMCA OF THE EAST BAY-EARLY CHILDHOOD IMPACT, Emeryville, CA

• Establish mutually respectful partnerships with families and conduct outreach, recruitment, and enrollment.

• Develop strengths-based assessments with families describing their goals, strengths, resources, support networks, necessary services and supports, and health concerns.

• Follow up with the family on their progress toward meeting their goals and any necessary adjustments to the plan.

• Track all health, dental, and nutrition-related data and ensure routine follow-up.

• Provide and/or coordinate training and educational opportunities for parents.

• Provide opportunities for children and families to participate in family literacy services.

• Support families in accessing community resources and assist families in crisis.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations. Early Intervention Counselor II, Dec 2016 - Jan 2018 Therapeutic Nursery School, East Bay Agency For Children, Oakland, CA