Preschool Promise Instructional Coach

Job Summary

The Preschool Promise Instructional Coach responds to coaching requests and referrals to provide reflective and relationship-based coaching to both teachers and instructional leaders, while also supporting the implementation of Preschool Promise. This position serves as a coach to early educators in family and center based child care settings, school districts and other early education programs to meet program, classroom and teacher goals, best practices standards and increase the level of job-embedded professional development, collaborative routines and instructional leadership.

Essential Duties

1. Creates ongoing trusting relationships with early education programs and a range of educators to develop the most conducive environment for learning, reflection and establish collaborative coaching relationships.
2. Articulates and facilitates understanding of Preschool Promise program expectations, especially in the areas of Supportive Environments and Ambitious Instruction, Continuous Quality Improvement, Leadership with Knowledge, and Inclusionary Practices.
3. Delivers regular one-on-one coaching sessions to educators and instructional leaders of Preschool Promise programs, following the Oregon Early Learning Coaching Competencies and employs specific coaching strategies to engage teachers and instructional leaders.
4. Utilizes reflective practices with Preschool Promise programs to facilitate goal setting, data evaluation, and observation feedback.
5. Supports continuous quality improvement in practice especially around Preschool Promise Program Expectations, NAEYC Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and implementation of best practices in early learning, inclusion, dual language learning and social/emotional development.
6. Conducts regular direct observations of coachee in practice using formal and informal tools and provides feedback.
7. Uses technology to support Preschool Promise programs and coachees through video review, feedback, resource sharing and coordinating peer feedback.
8. In partnership with Preschool Promise administrators and teachers, creates coaching goals, action steps and identifies available resources through engaged data dialogues and reflective conversations.
9. Supports Preschool Promise programs in their use of data to create program and early educator goals.
10. Provides materials, resources and recommendations to strengthen practice implementation and reach set coaching goals.
11. Serves as a resource in identifying appropriate research-based instructional strategies and interventions to improve outcomes for Preschool Promise children and families.
12. Uses coaching data to inform training and technical assistance plans. Develop and deliver training to early educators and ECE professionals that adheres to Oregon’s Professional Development Registry criteria.
13. Participates in ongoing coaching provided by contracted Mentor Coaches.

Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor degree in Early Childhood Education or related field (Human Development, Child and Family Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology) or a Step 10 on the Oregon Registry and coursework in age three to five development.

Experience: Two years of experience providing Technical Assistance and training, including coaching, to early education programs, providing classroom observations and/or home visits to families with young children. Experience supporting the primacy of families, their home languages, and their cultures, and an understanding of how to engage them.