"Possible" Building-Based Math Coach

JOB TITLE: "Possible" Building-Based Math Coach

REPORTS TO: Building Principal

EVALUATION: Building-based mathematics coaches as designated by the ANA will be evaluated according to quantitative and qualitative data measures. Summative and formative student assessment data, surveys, and site visit reports will be used in determining ANA mathematics coaches' effectiveness

PROVIDES SUPPORT TO: Teachers

DAYS: 197 Days

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

Education and Experience:

• Hold a valid Alabama professional educator certificate in early childhood education, elementary education, or special education
• Have a minimum of five years of experience as an early childhood, elementary, or special education teacher.
• Demonstrate expertise, as attested by a current or former employing county or city superintendent of education, in mathematics instruction and intervention and early numeracy interventions, including dyscalculia interventions.
• Hold a master's degree or have completed professional development recommended by the Elementary Mathematics Task Force, or both.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supporting the improvement of instruction with an emphasis on Tier 1 instruction to ensure students do not fall behind.
• Collaborating with the school principal and faculty to establish and implement a strategic plan for coaching and mathematics instruction to improve student achievement in mathematics.
• Facilitating schoolwide mathematics professional learning, including job-embedded assistance using coaching strategies, including joint preplanning, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, targeted observation to collect data, and debriefing.
• Modeling evidence-based mathematics instructional and intervention strategies for teachers.
• Continuously mentoring and coaching teachers.
• Assisting teachers in using data to differentiate mathematics instruction and to identify students exhibiting the characteristics of dyscalculia and other exceptionalities.
• Monitoring the progress of K-5 students in mathematics through benchmark formative assessments at least three times per year and making recommendations for modifying instruction based on the individual needs of students and trends in student data.
• Focusing solely as a mathematics coach for schools with elementary grade students.
• Collaborating with teachers and grade-level teams of teachers to foster the use of appropriate instructional materials, including concrete materials, necessary to ensure that students understand mathematical concepts.
• Collaborating with grade-level teams to develop rigorous tasks, lessons, and assessments aligned with grade-level mathematics content standards; to facilitate the analysis of student work samples and assessment data; and to work in partnership with teachers to provide real-time feedback and make next-step instructional decisions based on the student evidence.
• Assisting teachers in using formative assessments and analyzing student work to identify students with misconceptions, students exhibiting characteristics of dyscalculia, and students needing acceleration.
• Assisting teachers in administering early numeracy screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, in Grades K-2. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
• Assisting teachers with administering fractional reasoning screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, for students in grades four and five, subject to legislative appropriation. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
• Advocating, planning, and coordinating opportunities, in conjunction with the principal, for school-based family and community engagement in mathematics.
• Actively and cooperatively participating in any Office of Mathematics Improvement (OMI) regional coordinator and Alabama Mathematics, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) regional mathematics specialist visits and professional learning to meet agreed upon personal outcomes and all school, district, and state established mathematics goals.
• Engaging in ongoing learning opportunities to grow in knowledge. skills. and expertise in mathematics.
• Facilitating the use of assessment data in all tiers of mathematics instruction to assist in making decisions that will move students to higher levels of performance in mathematics.
• Planning or facilitating, or both, professional learning opportunities that will assist teachers in targeting student deficits; facilitate professional conversations; foster student engagement; assess student learning; reflect on professional practice; and identify next learning steps to achieve state, district, and school goals in mathematics.
• Recording job duties and time spent with teachers on a state-specified electronic platform.
• Supporting teachers in the authentic integration of computer science and computational thinking concepts within the mathematics classroom.

Background Check Required:

• (Ala. Code §§ 16-22A-5) Upon offer of employment, employees will be required to submit legible fingerprints for a background review by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands to finger, to handle, or feel objects, equipment, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull, carry and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include near vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Adequate physical and mental health documented with a signed statement from a physician.

Additional Details:

• Position will be subject to the Students First Act of 2011. Cullman City Schools reserves the right to fill this position by internal applicants by means of transfer
• Under the Students First Act of 2011, no credit toward tenure or non-probationary status is earned in the initial year of employment if hired after September 30.

Cullman City Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities