2025 Summer Instructional Coach

We are seeking highly effective professional teachers to serve as Instructional Coaches (IC) for Summer 2025. IC’s are at the core of our summer program and play a crucial role by training, supervising, and supporting BTSV Teaching Fellows in becoming effective instructors and leaders. IC’s observe, articulate, refine, and improve the techniques of aspiring teachers in a collaborative environment, and as a result, get the opportunity to reflect upon and evaluate their own pedagogical practices. Rather than teaching students directly, IC’s oversee lesson plan development and execution, classroom management, and student interactions for our summer Teaching Fellows. They mentor and guide our Teaching Fellows over the course of the summer, providing ongoing formal and informal feedback on each teacher’s performance. Furthermore, IC’s have a unique opportunity to shape the professional path of tomorrow’s educators. During the summer, our Teaching Fellows instruct a core academic subject (Literature, Writing, English Language Arts, Math, Science, or High School Prep) and an elective course of their choice. As subject area experts, IC’s help our Teaching Fellows transform their passion into rigorous and engaging lessons. BTSV also implements a specific teacher training sequence, known as BIT (Breakthrough Instruction Training), which includes research-based best practices. Breakthrough Silicon Valley launches talented but underserved middle school students on the path to college, while at the same time inspiring high school and college students to become educators. While ambitious in our goals, BTSV works: 97% of BTSV graduates are accepted into four-year colleges (through the class of 2019) and 87% of BTSV Teaching Fellows (2017-19) are inspired to pursue a career in education as a result of their summer experience. Breakthrough Silicon Valley’s tuition-free program provides year-round out of school time academic support, advising, and advocacy for a diverse group of talented students, most of whom come from under-resourced communities and are first in their family to go to college. Through our students-teaching-students model, Breakthrough also provides a consummate professional development experience in education by providing talented high school and college students the opportunity to design and teach classes under the direction of seasoned education professionals. Located in San Jose, California, Breakthrough Silicon Valley is an affiliate of The Breakthrough Collaborative, a leading national service organization that acts as the national voice for 24 Breakthrough sites across the country.