School Partnership Coach

School Partnership Overview

We typically work with ~50 schools throughout the U.S. each year in our School Partnership, which centers on a comprehensive, research-based school change framework (SPACE) and focuses on timely and practical strategies that positively impact students and faculty. We believe real, lasting change requires the entire school community to identify challenges and drive the solutions. Partnering schools leverage a team of 10 community members, consisting of administrators, counselors, teachers, parents/caregivers, and students, to engage in an inclusive community-driven process to improve well-being, belonging, and engagement in their school.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a coach for ~10 schools that are composed of a team of community members (administrators, teachers, counselors, students, and caregivers), including coaching, presentations, and monthly 1:1 leadership calls.
• Support our community-driven approach to center (re)design of policies and/or practices on those most marginalized by current systems by coaching for equity and cultivating asset-based mindsets.
• Build school capacity to center student and parent/caregiver survey data, qualitative school data, and other research to inform school change in partnership with the research team.
• Deliver virtual/in-person professional development and community education to school communities and assist with virtual public webinars.
• Assist in renewing existing schools in collaboration with the marketing and sales efforts.
• Support school partnerships through ongoing feedback and measurement processes that develop long-term sustainability of community-driven policies and/or practices
• Support schools at in-person and virtual regional in-person Challenge Success conferences.
• Engage in monthly 1:1 meetings with the Director of Programs to reflect on coaching efforts, share learnings, and engage in personal development goals.
• Participate in weekly internal program team meetings to share learnings, collaborate, and support ongoing improvements in school programming.

Background & Experiences

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of K-12 teaching and/or school leadership experience is required; an advanced degree in education is preferred.
• Minimum 2 years experience designing and leading professional learning and education.
• Minimum 2 years experience using improvement science to lead change in a school environment, preferably using a Liberatory Design Process.
• Experience working with diverse student communities in independent and public school landscapes.

Knowledge & Skills of Education Ecosystem

• Ability to work collaboratively with experienced school leaders.
• Deep knowledge of continuous improvement/improvement science principles and practices
• Commitment to culturally responsive and sustaining practices, equity, and access for all students. Understanding of what equity means in the larger context of education and society.
• Understanding and practice of asset-based pedagogies, such as an awareness and understanding of different cultures, with the ability to accept differences without judgments.
• Proven facilitation and/or coaching for equity skills, ideally in a school setting.

Skills & Attributes in Working Environment

• Mission-driven with a deep commitment to improving student well-being, belonging, and engagement with learning through transformational school change.
• Commitment to an internal culture of professional learning. Embodies a learner mindset. Proactively engages in reflection and creative problem-solving.
• Able to balance workload efficiently and produce high-quality work. Self-driven in multiple complex situations. Working hours are flexible and are determined by School Partnership Coach and school assignments.
• Highly flexible, organized, collaborative, and responsive in a remote working environment.