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Who We Are

New Paradigm For Education (NPFE) is a non-profit Charter Management Organization (CMO) composed of educational practitioners, community advocates, and business leaders who have dedicated years of service to children. NPFE serves 2,100 students in Detroit, Michigan. We specialize in maximizing student learning potential through proven education practices and managing all phases of school design, planning, and program implementation.

Why New Paradigm for Education

NPFE is on a mission to ensure that all students in Detroit achieve at the highest levels, supporting educational transformation through increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support. NPFE’s Mission is to provide a quality education through shared responsibility in a safe supportive environment for all students to meet the needs of a global society. We are committed to excellence and strive to offer a new educational paradigm evident by increased student achievement, fiscal responsibility, and community support.

New Paradigm for Education seeks educators who have a relentless belief that all students, regardless of their race and economic or social circumstances, can perform at high levels, deserve a quality education, have access to high quality instruction and curriculum, and can attain post secondary success. Educators who are driven bv academic achievement, continuous growth, and excel working in a rigorous and supportive environment. We seek culturally responsive educators who have experience working with diverse communities and strong relationship-building skills that they apply to understand their students, families, and communities.

What You’ll Do

The Instructional Coach will support teachers and instructional staff in NPFE's teacher certification program, the Educator Development Institute (EDI). The Instructional Coach will support teachers across all content areas implementing high quality curriculum. Grounded in high quality instructional curriculum, strong instructional practices, and knowledge of adult learning, the Instructional Coach will support teachers inside and outside the classroom, developing their craft and driving student achievement growth. A successful Instructional Coach will help close student achievement gaps in reading and accelerate reading learning for all students by building teacher capacity through implementation of effective reading instructional practices.

Through productive struggle, research based instruction, and targeted lessons and tasks, NPFE students become problem solvers, collaborators, communicators, and owners of their reading growth, to ensure college and career readiness.

The EDI Instructional Coach will work under the supervision of the Director of the Educator Development Institute.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Ability to work a part-time schedule

• Must possess a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in education

• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate

• 5+ years of teaching experience.

• Be skilled at using data to ground conversations about instructional practice.

• Be skilled at using student work to ground conversations about instructional practice.

• Have experience leading adult learning, deep understanding of conceptual understanding, and ability to develop teachers resulting in improved student outcomes across content areas.

• Understanding the instructional needs of Multilingual Learners and thinking and learning differences of students.

Duties & Responsibilities

INSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

• Provide teachers and other staff with the instructional leadership necessary to develop proficiency and success in implementation of core curriculum

• Coach and develop teachers on lesson planning, classroom management, instructional practices, and the effective use of data to guide instruction, providing real time instructional support in the classroom whenever possible.

• Design and host targeted professional development opportunities for teachers and other instructional staff

• Conduct regular curricular pedagogy meetings with specific goals and full participation by all teachers

• Support classroom teachers and classroom instruction through co-teaching, modeling, and real-time coaching as needed

• Participate in professional development opportunities and site visits to observe successful implementation of curriculum and supplemental programs - and bring those learnings to the school site

PLANNING AND ASSESSMENTS

• Review student achievement data and make recommendations or adjustments, refer students for case discussion, etc.

• Coordinate assessments by organizing, distributing, and explaining the assessment process to teachers -- and supporting the execution of the process

• Organize, track and coordinate curricular materials and resources for staff, students and families

• Create staff development plans based on targeted student data and observations

• Analyze assessment data to identify students for delivery of supplemental services

• Report assessment data to instructional staff and school community, and explain plans for student improvement

• Other ancillary duties as needed or assigned

If this sounds like you, apply TODAY to join the NPFE team! If transcripts are available at the time of application, please upload during the application process. Otherwise, transcripts will be collected during the hiring and onboarding process.