At-Risk Special Education Instructional Coach

Job Description

Certificates and Licenses:Active Special Education State Teaching License

Residency Requirements: TEXAS. May consider residents of surrounding states (NM, OK, AR or LA). This position could include travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school.

Start Date: 2026-2027 School Year

Salary: $60,000

Summary: The Instructional Coach partners with teachers and campus leadership to cultivate high-impact instructional practices that increase student learning and achievement. Through Professional Learning Community (PLC) facilitation, lesson planning support, individualized coaching, and data-informed collaboration, the Instructional Coach builds teacher capacity aligned to TEKS, rigorous instructional design, and best practices in differentiation and student engagement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Individual & Small Group Coaching

• Provide 1:1 and small group coaching cycles thatemergefrom:
• PLC and planning support
• Walkthrough data & Observations
• Identifiedcampus needs
• Utilize coaching conversations that promote reflection, goal setting, and measurable growth.
• Conduct regular 1:1 goalcheck-inseach semester with assigned teachers tomonitorprogress and adjust support as needed.

Collaboration with Campus Leadership

• Meet with administrators to align coaching focus areas with campus instructional priorities.
• Collaborate regularly to analyze data anddeterminecoaching targets.
• Support alignment between instructional expectations, curriculum implementation, and professional learning initiatives.
• Provide feedback and insightregardinginstructional trends and areas of growth.

Lesson Planning & Instructional Design Support

• Collaborate with teachers during planning to strengthen TEKS alignment, clarity of learning targets, and assessment alignment.
• Support teachers in lesson internalization, including unpacking standards,anticipatingmisconceptions, andidentifyingexemplar responses.
• Facilitate structured lesson internalization opportunities to refine instructional delivery, questioning strategies, pacing, and checks for understanding prior to implementation.
• Support the integration of research-based instructional practices that increase student engagement and rigor.
• Assistteachers in designing differentiatedinstructionto meet the needs of at-risk and educationally disadvantaged students.
• Provide guidance on scaffolding, questioning strategies, and instructional pacing.\
• Share strategies, tools, and brief professional learning (i.e.Brick Shift sessions) to build educator capacity and support instructional growth.

Professional Learning Community (PLC) Facilitation

• Facilitate purposeful PLC meetings focused on Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) alignment, lesson internalization, differentiation, and rigorous instructional design.
• Guide teams in developing aligned lesson plans that incorporate Depth of Knowledge (DOK) questioning and standards-based instructional strategies.
• Support teachers in analyzing student work and formative data to inform instructional adjustments.
• Ensure PLC conversations translate into actionable next steps for classroom implementation.

Instructional Practice & Resource Development

• Support teacher growth in best instructional practices through modeling, co-planning, feedback, and reflective dialogue.
• Develop and curate instructional resources that align to curriculum maps and district expectations.
• Provide support with:
• Differentiation strategies
• TEKS alignment
• DOK-based questioning
• Student engagement strategies
• Data-informed instructional adjustments

Support for New-to-Virtual/Stride Teachers

• Provide targeted instructional support forteachersnew tovirtual instruction.
• Support effective virtual lesson delivery, student engagement strategies, and digital classroom management.
• Assistnew teachers in internalizing curriculum expectations and aligning instruction to TEKS.

This position may perform other duties as assigned in alignment with the State Compensatory Education (SEC) program. Duties this position may not perform under auspices of SCE program:

• Duties related to testing, such as test administration
• Activities related to teacher evaluations, including TTESS related activities
• Activities undertaken in the role of parent liaison, community li