District Math Coach Jobs in Cleveland, OH (NOW HIRING)

Position Type:
Administration and Professionals
Date Posted:
2026-06-03
Location:Administration or As Assigned
ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.
CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.
Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.
BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES
The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Network Support Leader
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 7
Compensation: $ 68,891.00 - $ 93,003.00
Number of Positions: 2
**Internal applicants are required to upload a resume to their application**
The Pre-K-12 Action Team Coach is a pivotal role. The ATC will be school-based, and will working closely with the Principal and School Leadership Team at each CMSD school in his or her portfolio. The ATC is ultimately accountable for successfully executing a program of job-embedded, ongoing and customized professional development for overall school improvement, working with Principals, Academic Superintendents, Deputy Chiefs, the Chief Academic Officer and others as needed to monitor progress and adjust Academic Achievement Plans as necessary to meet goals for student achievement.
Responsibilities

• The Action Team Coach should have a sophisticated sense of how to use information to diagnose and intervene to improve educational outcomes, and be able to manage and motivate multiple teams
• Work collaboratively with Principals and School Leadership Teams and the Academic Superintendent and CAO Deputy Chiefs to evaluate and frame the work to be done at each CMSD school in the portfolio
• Lead conversations and processes that engage principals, teachers, subject area specialists, department chairs, Literacy and Math coaches, and others to use all available data, including student achievement data, curriculum, lesson plans, teaching strategies, and other benchmark data that affect student achievement in order to define the joint work of the school and its Action Team
• Identify specific principal, teacher and student needs and develop customized curriculum, teacher professional development, and school leadership strategies to build capacity and a culture of collaborative support
• Facilitate meetings between Action Team Barrier Breakers, Flexible Content Experts and Solution Specialists to ensure necessary services and resources are provided to schools in a timely manner
• Mentor and serve as general resource person for principals and teachers by providing model lessons, coaching and ongoing professional assistance
• Work with new teachers to incorporate best practices in their curriculum and classroom management techniques
• Manage targeted curriculum development projects on behalf of the Deputy Chiefs and Academic Superintendents
• Participate in periodic meetings, conferences and workshops organized to address urgent issues and to share strategies for achieving greater levels of student success
• Collaborate and coordinate work across reporting and departmental lines to ensure that all key stakeholders get fully and timely information regarding student academic progress
• Research current academic issues, providing principals and teachers with up-to-date data, relevant and timely application of assessment tools, and concrete instructional strategies for boosting student achievement
• Monitor, document and evaluate the academic progress of each school within the portfolio

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, Masters preferred
• The successful candidate should be willing to do whatever it takes to advance CMSDs transformation work
• Prior experience working in a high-stakes academic (K-12) context with state-of-the-art professional development programs
• Respect for, and command of, national and state assessment tools and a knowledge of how to work with existing curricula and shape them to meet exacting standards
• Demonstrated success at achieving measurable success in a results-oriented environment with shifting priorities and deadlines
• Successful classroom teaching experience strongly preferred
• Practical data management skills; the ability to interpret student assessment data accurately, convert it into concrete action plans and explain it persuasively to teachers and others
• Demonstrated willingness go above and beyond for CMSD students and a sense of urgency about meeting student learning needs to measurably increase their performance
• Optimism about instituting a change agenda, and a defined sense of how to contribute to the overall success of the transformation process
• Strong computer skills, preferably with PowerPoint and Excel

Working Conditions/Physical Demands
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Expected moving, walking and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
• The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment
• Local travel may be required for training/meetings

NOTE: The above stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of similar nature or level of responsibility
Education
To Apply
Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO Statement
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District's Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District's Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District's Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District's Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070
TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org