Learning Coach - TEAM Center

Learning Coach

The Learning Coach (LC) will play a critical role in supporting teachers, enhancing instructional practices, and promoting student success. The LC will implement new exciting opportunities to collaborate with educators, provide instructional guidance, and contribute to the implementation of innovative teaching strategies within a supportive educational environment. Learning Coaches are strong teachers who deliver targeted, purposeful, and differentiated instruction to students. The LC will play a critical role in supporting teachers via push-in or pull-out support. By providing individualized academic support, the LC will play a pivotal role in ensuring that every student can succeed. This position is dedicated to working directly with students.

Education/Certification: Bachelor's Degree required, Certified in the area assigned (ELAR or Math), ESL Certification is preferred.

Experience: Minimum three years of classroom teaching experience with strong instructional skills, demonstrated through proven academic outcomes.

Special Knowledge/Skills: Ability to intervene with small groups of identified students around academic standards, deep content knowledge in ELAR or Math with an achievement and outcomes orientation, strong instructional and classroom management skills, high level of personal organization and planning, ability to inspire, motivate, and engage children, proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software applications, excellent organizational and time management skills, effective written and verbal communication skills, ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment, demonstrated problem-solving abilities and adaptability in a dynamic work environment, commitment to maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information with integrity, strong interpersonal skills and a customer service-oriented approach, flexibility to handle changing priorities and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

• Instructional support
• Student support (in collaboration with the classroom teacher and in a small group settings)
• Plan and prepare a variety of learning activities considering individual student’s culture, learning styles, special needs and socio-economic background
• Utilize materials and resources that support learning objectives and address students’ varying learning styles and special needs
• Establish and maintain a positive and safe learning environment in which students are encouraged to be actively engaged in the learning process and self-directed in high interest research and/or problem-based learning
• Assist with the development and implementation of student support and/or self-directed learning plans
• Monitor and communicate the progress of identified students
• Create structures for students to showcase their learning to the community, including parents, staff, and professionals
• Support student independence and learning with acceleration support to help them achieve meets expectations in a learning and/or innovation lab
• Support the implementation of all classroom expectations for the classroom environment and instructional cycle
• Support teachers with timely transitions, i.e., start and stop, and transition to and from intervention and/or extension
• Support teachers with grading and organizing student work on a weekly basis
• Collaborate with teachers to enhance instructional strategies, differentiation, and assessment practices
• Support the implementation of curriculum plans aligned with state standards and district initiatives
• Collaborate with teachers to analyze student data and identify areas for instructional improvement
• Collaborate with teachers, instructional leaders, and support staff to align initiatives and support student success
• Stay updated on the latest educational trends, research, and best practices
• Support teachers in utilizing formative and summative assessments to monitor student progress and inform instructional decisions
• Applies deep content and pedagogical knowledge to move students to grade-level proficiency
• Creates engaging, rigorous lesson plans
• Implements robust, outcome-based intervention plans that sequence and scaffold learning to maximize student access to grade-level standards
• Leverages the collective understandings of the multidisciplinary/MTSS team to increase student outcomes
• Uses data from student work, assessments, and observations to refine interventions, extensions and support

Other Duties:

• Applies excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Communicates with principal, teachers, and staff about identified student needs and offers support as needed
• Communicates and models research-based instructional practices that result in increased student performance
• Maintains a continued awareness of current research and trends in curriculum
• Follow district safety protocols and emergency procedures
• Foster a collaborative and supportive school culture by promoting open communication and teamwork
• Participate in school-wide initiatives, committees, and professional learning communities
• Support classroom management and substitute as needed
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Equipment & Software Skills: Personal computer, printer, fax machine, copier, scanner, and calculator, Microsoft Office applications, Google Suite applications

Working Conditions: Mental Demands / Physical Demands / Environmental Factors

• Tools/Equipment Used: Standard office equipment including computer and peripherals; standard instructional equipment.
• Posture: Moderate standing; occasional kneeling, squatting, bending, and stooping
• Motion: Moderate walking
• Lifting: Regular light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds)
• Environment: Work inside and outside (exposure to sun, heat, cold, and inclement weather); exposure to noise
• Mental Demands: Work with frequent interruptions; maintain emotional control under stress.

Approved: Human Resources Department May 2026