2025-26 OA Instructional Coach (New Orleans)

Opportunities Academy Instructional Coach

The Instructional Coach plays a pivotal role in the success of Opportunities Academy as we ensure that teaching in all classrooms and internships is excellent and preparing scholars to live independently, obtain employment and self advocate. This teammate will lead a model classroom or internship space for half of the day and instructional coach for the second half of the day.

About Collegiate Academies: Collegiate Academies prepares all students for lives of unlimited opportunity. Founded in 2008, Collegiate Academies serves over 3,000 students in five public high schools and two postsecondary programs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. We serve a dramatically higher proportion of students with special needs, students who are English language learners, and students who are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. We see the individual greatness of every student who comes through our doors.

Responsibilities:

Teacher & Job Coach Coaching and Development

• Lead teach a model classroom or internship space that can be observed by other teammates as part of development. This includes strong prep, implementing strategies from the CA playbook (Key 3, narration, etc) and collecting and responding to data regularly in alignment with OA’s Vision for Excellent Instructional Spaces.
• Develop a group of 2-3 teachers and 8-12 Job Coaches(JCs) using the coaching model determined by the School Leader to ensure teachers and JCs grow quickly.
• Achieve results using the highest leverage tools you have, including but not limited to: real-time coaching, debriefing with teachers, co-planning lessons, lesson plan review, and data meetings.
• Focus on results using academic data (daily exit ticket data, task analysis data) and observational data (aligned to the Collegiate Academies Rubric for Excellent Teaching- CARET).
• Develop teachers in planning rigorous PATH goal aligned unit and lesson plans with their students that focus on application in the real word and multiple rounds of practice.
• Coach teachers across classroom levels, experience levels, and needs, from unit planning to lesson planning, rigor, execution, prompting hierarchy, behavior management, classroom culture, etc.
• Coach job coaches around prompting hierarchy, behavior management, restrooming support, behavior intervention plan impelementation and instructional priorities.
• Support teachers and job coaches in non-classroom skills needed to be successful: time management, organization, and self-awareness and self-management.

Professional Development

• Execute Professional Development sessions with fidelity and excellence.
• Develop new Professional Development based on needs you identify within your teacher and job coach coachees.

Growth

• Frictionlessly give and receive feedback.
• Hold other team members accountable to exemplifying our core values.
• Build adult culture by modeling our agreements and values aligned choices. Make the choice consistently to affirm for showing our agreements and remind teammates if they aren’t making the choice yet to model them.
• Welcome adjustments to job responsibilities as needed to accomplish school-wide goals.

Qualifications:

Our ideal candidate has the following qualifications:

• Deep belief that all students, regardless of their backgrounds and educational pasts, have the potential to obtain employment, live independently and self advocate.
• Deep belief that it is the responsibility of educators to help all students realize that potential.
• Desire to grow as a professional and person.
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• An organized, detail-oriented, and execution-focused mind.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; an ability to build deep professional relationships and mutual respect with teammates.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3 years of teaching experience and 1 years of experience coaching teachers preferred.

Additionally, CA provides the following benefits:

• Industry-leading comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 403(b) Plan with a 3% match
• 6 weeks of breaks per year (plus additional federal holidays) for all employees, with an additional 6 weeks for most school-based roles.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and 6 weeks of secondary
• Up to $2,500 for out-of-state moving expenses

To Apply:

Please submit a resume and cover letter. In your cover letter, please explain how you heard about Collegiate Academies and your interest and qualifications for the position. In the application, you will also be asked to answer the following questions. You may want to plan your answers in advance of beginning the application:

• Why are you drawn to the mission of Collegiate Academies?
• Describe a time in your career where you had to grow dramatically in your mindsets and skills to ensure student performance. What was challenging about this? How did you do?
• What gives you energy at work on a daily basis and what at work drains your energy on a daily basis?

Application Deadline: We are accepting applications for teaching roles for the 2025-26 school year on a rolling basis.

Collegiate Academies encourages individuals of all identities and backgrounds to apply for this position. We are an equal opportunity employer, fully committed to hiring a talented and diverse group of individuals. Collegiate Academies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin or ancestry, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable law. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. Collegiate Academies does not sponsor employment visas.