Multi-Classroom Leader

Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools 

River Road Middle School

Reports to: Principal 

 

Purpose:  An educator in the Multi-Classroom Leader (MCL) role leads a small team of teachers and paraprofessionals, and teaching residents to meet the MCL’s standards of excellence. 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: 

Planning and Preparation

• Set high expectations of achievement that are ambitious and measurable for all students taught by the 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 processes 
• Lead team to:

• plan backward to align all lessons, activities, and assessments using a high-standards curriculum 
• design and lead instruction that is enriched (developing higher-order thinking skills) and personalized (reflecting learning levels and interests of individual students), prioritizing small-group teaching and tutoring and offering accelerated learning
• design assessments that accurately assess student growth
• prepare to deliver small-group teaching and tutoring

Classroom Environment

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for high expectations of behavior and engagement that are ambitious and measurable 
• create physical classroom environments conducive to collaborative and individual learning
• establish a culture of respect, enthusiasm, and rapport 

Instruction

Lead team to:

• hold students accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement
• maximize student learning by incorporating small-group teaching and tutoring 
• identify and address individual students’ social, emotional, and behavioral learning needs and barriers 
• identify and address individual students’ development of organizational and time-management skills
• 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 and small-group teaching and tutoring 
• communicate with students and keep them informed of their progress

Professional Responsibilities

• Solicit and eagerly receive feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills
• Lead team to maintain regular communication with families, and work collaboratively with them to design learning both at home and at school, and to encourage a home life conducive to learning success
• Organize and schedule team time to ensure alignment of instructional vision, prioritize small-group teaching and tutoring in all classrooms, and troubleshoot students’ persistent learning challenges
• Determine how students spend instructional time based on strengths of all adults on the team
• Allocate instructional process elements (lesson planning, minimal large-group instruction, a focus on small-group instruction, individual interventions, data analysis, grading, etc.) among team based on strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals
• Model instructional tasks to aid team development
• Clarify and adjust team members’ roles and provide feedback, developmental advice, and assignments to develop their effectiveness
• Participate in professional development opportunities at school

 

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Knowledge of the subject matter being taught
• Bachelor’s degree

 

• Must have a continuing license
• Prior evidence of high-growth student learning in the relevant subjects 
• Ideally, experience successfully leading  a team of adults to accomplish goals, though not necessarily as a formal leader
• Demonstrated effectiveness working with people who have differing cultural backgrounds and/or personal characteristics, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or economic differences. Preference is given for experience working successfully with those of similar demographics to the desired school placement
• Evidence of taking initiative and being a self-motivated individual 

Salary:

• State Salary schedule plus local supplement and MCL supplement starting at $8,000 

Hours

• Full-time position
• MCL has built-in additional or consolidated planning and collaboration times to complete administrative tasks, analyze data, plan instruction, and manage the team
• Summer Training Required