Position Title: Servant Leader Apprentice (SLA) Coach
Location: Philadelphia
Reports to: Regional Manager
About CBED
The Center for Black Educator Development exists to (re)build a national Black Teacher Pipeline to achieve educational and racial justice by ensuring there is equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators that reflect the cultural background and share common socio-political interests of the students they serve. Launched in June 2019, the Center for Black Educator Development is revolutionizing education by dramatically increasing the number of Black educators so that low-income Black and other disenfranchised students can reap the full benefits of a quality public education. Learn about our key strategies to build a national Black Teacher Pipeline by visiting our website at www.thecenterblacked.org.
About the Position
The Servant Leader Apprentice (SLA) Coach will be responsible for supporting the development of a high quality, academic-centered after school experience for Servant Leader Apprentices, scholars, and their parents. Servant Leader Apprentices (SLAs) attend weekly professional development sessions, receiving feedback and coaching in an effort to nurture an ecosystem of support and accountability. The Center commits to equipping future educators with pedagogical understandings and tools that extend beyond the traditionally euro-centric models currently prevalent in the field of education. By doing so, the Center hopes that our SLAs will emerge from their apprenticeship committed to entering the field of education upon graduation.
This is an in-person, seasonal position from January to May 2023. Participants must be available from 2:30-6:00 pm during Monday - Friday.
Responsibilities include:
Management & Coaching
- Work with the Center’s Regional Manager to plan compelling and practical professional development workshops for SLAs
- Demonstrate a passion for supervising the growth of college-enrolled educators and high school students
- Use the Center’s curriculum and instruction model to observe instruction, providing coaching, mentoring, and feedback
- Provide leadership growth opportunities for SLAs, helping to enhance their instructional and behavioral management skills
- Provide onsite supervision to SLAs on weekdays from the hours of 2:30p-6:00pm
- Observe SLA performance, visiting classrooms regularly to support instruction and literacy activities
- Attend weekly Mbongi/Think Tanks with SLAs
Program Implementation
- Collaborate with the Regional Manager and Site Lead to make strategic decisions and track progress towards SLA goals and scholar goals
- Develop strategies to tackle programmatic challenges and create plans to implement them
- Incorporate learning goals to create positive academic experiences for elementary Scholars.
- Build sustainable relationships with SLAs, Site Leads, and school-based liaisons, communicating updates as needed
- Offer support to scholars experiencing academic or behavioral difficulties
- Order supplies and develop an inventory of learning materials
Data Collection & Analysis
- Collaborate with Site Lead to coordinate program logistics
- Meet with Site Lead to review scholar attendance
- Assess student data, using program benchmarks to achieve desired results.
- Create high-quality, data-driven reports
- Collaborate with Regional Instructional Manager and Site Lead to develop and implement a tutoring program improvement process (goal setting, action plans, and assessment).
Requirements, background, and experience expectations:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field (Education, English, History, Literacy preferred but not required) with at three (3) years teaching experience and at least one (1) year in teacher coaching capacity
- Prior experience teaching or tutoring elementary school students (K-4)
- Ability to motivate others, demonstrating patience and follow through when working with colleagues.
- Interest in and ability to work as a part of an intergenerational and multicultural team
- Ability to operate Zoom, manage Google Sheets and work with online data tracking systems
- Interest in helping elementary school students achieve their personal learning goals
- A deep commitment to The Center’s mission, vision, and core values
- Results-oriented– a flexible thinker willing to do “whatever it takes” and show resilience in the face of challenges
Other work requirements:
- Must be able to work in-person during program operating hours of Monday - Friday from 2:30-6:00 pm each day
- Program runs from January 17 - May 26
- Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required such as maneuvering in an office space, reaching file cabinets, filing, faxing, scanning, coping, typing, mailing, and making phone calls
- Must be able to perform physical activity that may be required during an in-person training or team building setting; Must be able to lift up to 20lbs
- Must be able to travel as needed
- Must be able to operate technical equipment such as projectors and smartboards