Multi-Classroom Leader

About the position

An educator in the Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) role leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teaching residents in the same grade or subject to meet the MCL's standards of excellence. MCLs establish each team member's roles and goals at least annually, determine how students spend time, and organize teaching roles to fit each teacher's strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The team uses the MCL's methods and tools. The MCL co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches and gives feedback, and leads and supports the team in building a tutoring culture. The MCL also teaches students part of the time. The MCL organizes the team to analyze student learning data and change instruction to ensure high-growth learning for every child, with a focus on small-group teaching and tutoring. The MCL collaborates with the team, using the team's ideas and innovations that the MCL agrees may improve learning. The MCL also guides and directs any reach associates with whom they work. The MCL is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team members.

Responsibilities

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for all students taught by team
• Establish methods and create instructional tools and materials that team teachers use in all classrooms
• Set direction, verbally and with tools and materials, that clarify content and teaching process
• Lead team to plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments using a high-standards curriculum
• Design and lead instruction that is enriched and personalized, prioritizing small-group teaching and tutoring
• Design assessments that accurately assess student growth
• Prepare to deliver small-group teaching and tutoring
• Hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement
• Create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
• Establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport
• Maximize student learning by incorporating small-group teaching and tutoring
• Identify and address individual students' social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs
• Invest students in their learning using a variety of influence techniques
• Incorporate questioning and discussion in teaching
• Monitor and analyze student assessment data to inform engaging instruction
• Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members
• Maintain regular communication with families and work collaboratively with them
• Organize and schedule team time to ensure alignment of instructional vision
• Allocate instructional process elements among team based on strengths
• Model instructional tasks to aid team development
• Clarify and adjust team members' roles and provide feedback

Requirements

• Knowledge of subject matter being taught
• Bachelor's degree
• Hold valid type C, level 1 or higher LA teaching certificate (or out-of-state equivalent)
• Have at least two years successful teaching with effective evaluations via Compass
• Must be within Top 30% (70th percentile) of VAM scores for VAM Teachers
• Must provide evidence of exceptional student growth for Non-VAM Staff
• Ideally, experience successfully leading a team of adults to accomplish goals

Benefits

• Competitive pay for an excellent teacher dependent upon funding
• Opportunities for pay raises
• Benefits based on the number of students reached successfully