2026-2027 DW Instructional and Behavior Coach (Part-time) - CROFTON Elementary

Christian County Schools; Crofton (MD); On-site; USD 20,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Christian County Schools seeks a part-time DW Instructional and Behavior Coach at Crofton Elementary to support RTI implementation and the District Improvement Plan. The role focuses on coaching teachers, data analysis, and targeted classroom interventions, with a flexible 185-day schedule.

Reporting to the Chief Instructional Officer, the position emphasizes modeling effective instructional practices, providing professional development, and collaborating with administrators and teachers to

Qualifications

• Kentucky teacher certification and Rank II/Master’s Degree.
• Minimum of six years teaching experience.
• Knowledge of state and national standards.
• Deep knowledge of reading, writing, literacy and/or math.
• Experience with data-driven instruction and assessment-driven planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional development and coaching around RTI and the District Improvement Plan.
• Model instructional practices and assist with data analysis and progress monitoring.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical assistance for teachers and students.
• Assist in developing and implementing district curriculum and benchmark assessments at building level.
• Support teachers in development of differentiated lessons and best-practice instruction.
• Collaborate with school leadership to facilitate professional learning communities.

Skills

Communication

Data analysis

Professional development

Collaboration

Instructional coaching

Education

Kentucky teacher certification

Rank II / Master’s Degree

Job description

2026-2027 DW Instructional and Behavior Coach (Part-time) – Crofton Elementary (JobID: 5639)

Location: Crofton Elementary School

Employment Conditions: 185-day employee with flexible calendar. Salary determined by adopted teacher's salary schedule of the Christian County Board of Education.

Background Check Requirement: State law requires a national and state criminal history background check and a letter from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services stating the employee is cleared to hire based on no findings of child abuse or neglect.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Meet the requirements of a criminal record check as specified by Kentucky State Law
• Meet health requirements as specified in the district personnel policy

POSITION SUMMARY

Provide professional development and coaching around Response to Intervention and identified needs to fully implement the District Improvement Plan; model academic and behavioral interventions; assist with data analysis and progress monitoring; provide coaching, mentoring, and technical assistance/consultation for classroom teachers and students, with emphasis on effective instructional practices; assist in developing, implementing and monitoring the district curriculum and benchmark assessments at the building level.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Kentucky teacher certification and a Rank II/Master's Degree
• Minimum of six years successful teaching experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of state and national standards
• Deep knowledge of reading, writing, literacy development, and/or math
• Deep knowledge of and experience in content, instructional strategies, conditions of learning, and assessment-driven instruction (teaching/learning process)
• Effective communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills for building an environment with a common instructional focus, promoting initiatives, and conveying expectations
• Ability to design and deliver quality professional development for administrators and teachers
• Ability to model lessons demonstrating best practice instruction
• Ability to support teachers in development of differentiated lessons
• Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in a professional manner both orally and in writing
• Demonstrated strength in organization, communication skills and efficiency in meeting deadlines
• Experience in analyzing data to plan for instruction
• Demonstrated ability to function as a positive collaborative member of a team
• Demonstrated interest and engagement in professional learning and reflection

REPORTS TO

Chief Instructional Officer

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES

Instructional Focus

• Facilitate curriculum and benchmark assessment development/refinement work at the district and building levels
• Assist teachers in developing and implementing formative assessment practices that are aligned to curriculum maps and pacing guides
• Provide individualized, classroom-based coaching with participants to support them in implementing good instructional practices
• Assist teachers in aligning their teaching with appropriate standards, curriculum and assessments
• Assist teachers in their professional learning as a trained peer observer in the Professional Growth and Evaluation System
• Assist teachers in analyzing formative assessment data to inform instructional practices
• Assist teachers and school leadership in implementing a Response to Intervention program through professional development, coaching, and monitoring
• Model effective, differentiated instruction and how to appropriately intervene in a Response to Intervention program
• Assist new teachers, in a collaborative model of observation, conversation, and lesson demonstration, to analyze and reflect on their practice to promote quality instructional practices
• Support the principal in facilitating professional learning community groups and/or grade-level teams among teachers in which issues related to implementing effective content instruction are considered, current research and writing on effective practice is read and discussed, engaging lessons are planned, and student work and data are reviewed to inform instruction
• Provide comprehensive/balanced training in and across given subject areas and curricular areas
• Implement a collaborative coaching and learning approach
• Participate fully in professional development for coaches, including peer observations, professional research and reading, and inquiry sessions
• Work collaboratively and collegially with other coaches, district specialists, building leadership and district leadership
• Support the instructional vision and mission of Christian County Public Schools

Behavioral Focus

• Assist school leadership in developing and promoting the components and operation of a proactive school-wide discipline system that includes procedures for teaching school-wide behavioral expectations; procedures for encouraging school-wide behavioral expectations; procedures for discouraging rule violations and problem behavior; and procedures for monitoring, adapting, and enhancing implementation
• Promote fundamental strategies and system of classroom management that includes classroom-wide positive expectations taught and encouraged, and the teaching of classroom routines and cues taught and encouraged
• Assist the principal with guiding strategic data-based action planning with school teams that includes data collection, analysis and summarization, development of data-based action plans, organization of teams, review of data, analysis and prioritization of problems, development of specific measurable outcomes, selection of evidence-based practices, provision of supports for sustained adoption and implementation, and monitoring of implementation and progress toward outcome

Performs other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or designee.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

185-day employee with flexible calendar. Salary determined by adopted teacher's salary schedule of the Christian County Board of Education.

EVALUATION

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Certified Personnel.