Instructional Coach (k-8)

Gary, IN

GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into post-secondary immersion as early as 9th grade.  GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.

About Us:
21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world. 

REPORTS TO/TERM: 

Principal and Administrative Team

10-month school calendar with 10 additional days during the summer break

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS:

An Instructional Coach is required to perform the following duties:

• Be willing to teach up to 3 class periods of core subjects

• Develop an exemplary academic improvement plan based on research-based strategies that will support student achievement in the identified areas of need as revealed from a thorough analysis of student and teacher performance data; provide adequate modeling and follow-up to ensure proper implementation of strategies

• Participate in the implementation of the teacher support and development system, including weekly professional learning and data team meetings

• Observe and provide peer assistance and coaching toward meeting teacher’s Individual Growth Plan goals

• Evaluate teacher performance using the school’s developed Performance Evaluation process and conduct follow-up teacher conferences

• Communicate teacher performance to the principal, highlighting teachers in need of coaching due to insufficient performance; assist the principal in the development of individual growth plans for teachers that have received poor performance ratings and/or student growth results

• Continuously analyze results of assignments, standardized assessments, and other data points in order to develop targeted interventions to ensure the academic success of all students

• Provide leadership in facilitating group processes, including consensus building and conflict resolution

• Communicate and collaborate with teachers and school administrators

• Attend all required staff meetings

• Participate in staff development opportunities

• Willing to perform other duties when asked by supervisor.

• Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A master’s degree or higher in relevant academic discipline

• Valid Indiana Teaching License in Elementary or Secondary Education

• At least 5 years of successful teaching as measured by performance evaluations

• Core Knowledge Experience

• Experience with Blended Learning

• Excellent communication skills and understanding of how to facilitate growth

• Student data that illustrates the teacher’s ability to increase student achievement through utilizing specific instructional interventions

• Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating tec