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Senior Instructional
Coaching Training Specialist

About JFF

To
meet the demands of a changing global economy, Jobs for the Future creates
strategies to improve the educational and workforce pipelines for a more
competitive America.

Jobs
for the Future has earned a national reputation for accelerating opportunities
for those who need them most to advance in education and careers.  Its expansive agenda includes research,
analysis, policy development, practical, on-the-ground projects, advocacy,
communications, and peer learning.  JFF
works to better understand the challenges and barriers that keep people from
fully participating in education and the economy; to help youth and adults
attain postsecondary credentials that enable full engagement in the global
economy; and to influence and improve the state and national policies that
drive our country’s educational and training systems.  By 2020, JFF, with its partners, is committed
to doubling the number of low-income youth and adults who attain postsecondary credentials
or training that helps them advance into family-sustaining careers.  For more information, please visit: www.jff.org.

The UPCS Institute at
JFF:

JFF has designed the UPCS Institute professional development
program to help school development organizations and their schools implement a
coherent instructional approach designed to prepare all students, regardless of
their incoming skill level, for college-level work. The three-year structured program focuses on helping
teachers to adopt a common instructional framework that uses six engaging
research-based strategies: collaborative group work, writing-to-learn, literacy
groups, questioning, scaffolding, and classroom talk. Teachers learn to use
these strategies in their classroom and design lesson and unit plans that
feature rich performance tasks aligned to college-readiness standards. The six strategies were
selected through empirical analysis of the instructional program used at the
University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, Massachusetts and a review
of the relevant research.

UPCS has been recognized as a national model
school by the EdTrust, the Alliance for Excellent Education, the National
Association for Secondary School Principals, and others for its outstanding
record of achievement and has hosted formal trainings for over 500 visiting
educators in the last three years.

About the Position:

We are
seeking a seasoned teacher and professional developer with a track-record of
success improving the academic achievement and college-going rate of students
historically underrepresented in higher education to help design and deliver
this program to a growing client base of small school and alternative school
developers.  This position reports to the
Managing Director, UPCS Institute for College-Readiness.

Responsibilities

·        
Lead the development, design, and
writing of Institute curricula for training instructional coaches to facilitate
structured workshops, support effective lesson planning and curriculum
development, and to work one-on-one with teachers improve their pedagogy and
support all students to achieve college readiness.

·        
Manage a professional coaching team
consisting of full-time staff and consultants within the UPCS Institute.

·        
Travel to partner sites in states
including Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia to deliver instructional coaching
training modules.

·        
Model effective instructional coaching
practice including:

o   Leading
structured professional development workshops for full school faculty.

o   Teach
demonstration lessons using best-practice instructional strategies.

o   Conduct
clinical observations focusing on student learning.

·        
Review student achievement data with
coaches, and support them to facilitate workshops and coach teachers to use
data to inform their daily classroom instruction.

·        
Provide mentoring support and guidance
to training participants around their progress though phone, email, video
conference and other means.

·        
Collaborate in development of online
modules and training materials and use of webinars and video conferencing to
deliver training and coaching support.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated
  record as a school coach or professional developer at the secondary school
  level.
• 5 or
  more years of successful teaching experience and demonstrated record of
  achievement for diverse learners

• Commitment to a
  standards-based approach to engaging all students in a rigorous college
  preparatory curriculum.
• Knowledge and
  experience implementing best practices in instruction
• Experience
  using assessment tools and analyzing student data
• Strong
  knowledge of adolescent literacy issues
• Ability to work
  collaboratively to advance a complex and multifaceted agenda
• Ability to
  manage multiple projects effectively and with a degree of independence
• Willingness to
  travel in various states in the US 4-to-6 days per month (can vary from
  month to month)
• Excellent public
  speaking and presentation skills
• Excellent
  written communication skills.
• Masters degree
  or higher

This
position is located in our Worcester office. 

Compensation:  Commensurate with experience

To apply click on:

http://www .​jff.​org/​jobs