About the Role
The Facilitator/Coach will facilitate professional learning and provide instructional coaching for educators and school leaders, focusing on implementing high-quality instructional materials and research-based practices. This role is essential for delivering effective professional learning and coaching that drives teacher growth and student success.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate professional learning and provide instructional coaching for educators and school leaders.
- Design and deliver professional development sessions, including engaging in feedback cycles and adjusting based on participant input.
- Provide tailored 1:1 coaching and group learning experiences for educators, both in-person and virtually.
- Build collaborative, trusting relationships with educators and leaders to strengthen instructional capacity and improve student outcomes.
- Support data collection, reporting, and reflection processes to measure the effectiveness and impact of coaching and professional learning initiatives.
Requirements
- Deep experience coaching educators in grades PK-2 ELA.
- Experience teaching or coaching Creative Curriculum, Wilson Fundations, Heggerty, Wit & Wisdom, and/or EL Education curriculum.
- At least two (2) years of experience as an instructional coach to teachers or school leaders with evidence of impact in student learning outcomes.
- Experience supporting various levels of instruction across classroom settings.
- Strong background in instructional best practices, with the ability to apply strategies that support effective teaching and learning for a wide range of educators and students.
- Experience in designing professional development materials or serving as an instructional designer.
- Experience facilitating impactful professional learning and coaching for educators in both virtual and in-person settings.
- Experience building and managing relationships with diverse stakeholders in an education context.
- Experience empowering teachers through trusting relationships and supporting shifts in practice and mindset to improve student learning.
- Strong commitment to growth mindset for both adults and students, with a desire to continuously strengthen instructional practices and team capabilities.
- Ability to design and deliver high-quality, evidence-based professional learning that advances teaching and learning outcomes.
- Compelling communication and facilitation skills that build engagement and influence across diverse educators and stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage complex projects, multiple priorities, and tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Candidates must have the ability to travel to New York, NY on a weekly basis.
Skills
- Early childhood curriculum-based professional learning
- Equitable instructional practice
- 1:1 coaching
- Group learning facilitation
- Creative Curriculum implementation
- Wilson Fundations implementation
- Heggerty implementation
- Wit & Wisdom implementation
- EL Education implementation
- Instructional routines
- Responsive, standards-aligned practice
- Growth mindset
- Evidence-based professional learning design
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- Dual language support
- Bilingual support
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Contractor (1099)
- On-site
- Virtual
- In-person
Experience Level
- Individual contributor
Salary/Compensations
- ⅓ day rates (<2 hours) are $350
- ½ day rates (<3 hours) are $500
- Full day rates (<6 hours) are $1,000
- Extended day rates (<8 hours) are $1,150
Benefits
- Paid training and onboarding
About the Company
- Teaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning.
- We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives.
- In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes.
- We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes.
- Teaching Lab seeks to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning in pursuit of excellent educational outcomes for every child.
- Teaching Lab’s ultimate goals are: Educators learn more than they would without us; Students learn more than they would without us, in a way that cannot be predicted by race, gender, or family income; Educators we serve say they love our approach, and they want to keep doing it to advance educational equity.
- All employees are expected to embrace Teaching Lab’s Values to help us achieve our ultimate goals.
- Teaching Lab’s Values include: Collaboration & Responsive Service, Resilient Solution-Finding, Research & Learning With Humility, Accountable Excellence, Equity & Justice.
