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Seeking passionate school leaders! TNTP seeks a full-time Leadership Coach for our Kansas City PLUS team. This position can be based from a home office anywhere in the Midwest Region of the United States, with heavy travel up to 40% of the time to Kansas City, and is available immediately.   Who We Are TNTP is a national nonprofit founded by teachers that believes our nation’s public schools can offer all children an excellent education. Today we’re a diverse team from a wide range of fields, united by a fierce commitment to helping school systems end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students. We work at every level of the public education system to attract and train talented teachers and school leaders, ensure rigorous and engaging classrooms, and create environments that prioritize great teaching and accelerate student learning. Across the country, we work to create effective leaders by recruiting and training new school leaders and developing current leaders through targeted professional development and one-on-one coaching. Our work, including Kansas City PLUS, provides the education sector the opportunity to learn more about how to effectively recruit, train, and support school leaders over time.  What You’ll Do We know that to have an effective teacher in every classroom, there must be an effective leader in every school.  As a Leadership Coach, you will work with our team and schools in the district, charter and/or parochial sectors to drive systemic change by creating and developing a shared vision of what excellent instruction looks like. You’ll coach new and current school leaders to operationalize that vision by developing their instructional expertise, management and personal leadership skills to be successful. Specific responsibilities may include: Facilitating weekly goals-based coaching aligned to program priorities and differentiated for individual leader needs and context Contributing to the design of a professional development scope and sequence for new and veteran school leaders Designing and facilitating professional development for new school leaders and current school leaders Collaborating with network and district leadership to observe and deliver concrete, actionable feedback to new and veteran school leaders Collaborating with TNTP Leadership Coaches across contracts to develop TNTP’s best practices in leadership development Serving as a leader in the local educational sector advocating for improved educational opportunities for children  Transforming challenges into opportunities – for your team, for your residents and school leaders you support  What You Bring We are looking for amazing people who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you learn from failure and overcome adversity, cultivate strong relationships, and push yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level.  We expect the Leadership Coach to: Bring a distinguished track record in coaching or school leadership. You have coached school leaders or led schools that achieved great things for their students. Demonstrate expertise in facilitating powerful learning experiences for adults. You excel at designing and implementing professional development experiences and have the content expertise to create rich training materials, conceptualize meaningful interactive learning experiences, and facilitate training sessions for school leaders.  Facilitate high-quality presentations to diverse audiences. We’re counting on your strong public presentation skills and ability to provide thoughtful and compelling insights in settings small and large, formal and informal.  Know great teaching and learning that prepares students for success in college and career when you see it.  You understand the implications of the shifts in instruction required by standards for students, teachers, school leaders and district staff and how the different elements of the standards work together. Propose innovative solutions to complex challenges. You have a history of tackling high stakes challenges head on and moving work forward toward successful outcomes. Ambiguity doesn’t overwhelm you; just the opposite, you thrive on it. Your creative instincts will help you deal with vague situations and develop new approaches with limited guidance. Influence leaders to act. You’ll regularly interact with and be expected to influence clients – motivating them to make both incremental change and take quantum leaps.   Qualifications: Previous experience as a school principal and a proven track record of raising student achievement, preferably in high-need schools or with high-need populations (required) Experience coaching and facilitating professional development for school leaders and teachers (required) Immediate understanding of what effective teaching looks like and a deep commitment to effective and rigorous instruction Strong familiarity and experience with the Missouri Learning Standards (preferred) Ability to track and analyze performance data to uncover trends and act strategically and effectively to improve results Ability to communicate compelling feedback that motivates leaders, develops instruction and accelerates student achievement Comfort tackling sensitive issues and modeling crucial conversations Outstanding interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills, including the ability to collaborate, and attain and grow effective partnerships to meet common goals What We Offer TNTP offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position with the potential for an annual performance based bonus. We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, commuter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan with employer matching. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. TNTP may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.   To Apply Please submit your resume and tailored cover letter online.  It’s in your best interest to apply as soon as possible. We recommend including a cover letter in your application addressing why you are interested in TNTP and how your experience has prepared you for this position.  TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn More TNTP:  www.tntp.org Benefits and hiring process: http://tntp.org/join   Kansas City PLUS: http://kansascityplus.org/about-the-program/how-it-works  Life at TNTP: http://tntp.org/about-tntp/our-people

TNTP seeks a full-time Site Manager - Instruction for the Clark County SEED Team. This position may be based in a home office anywhere in the U.S., with a preference for applicants based in Nevada, and is available immediately. If not based in Clark County, travel up to 40% annually is required.  Who We Are  TNTP is a national nonprofit founded by teachers that believes our nation’s public schools can offer all children an excellent education. Today we’re a diverse team from a wide range of fields, united by a fierce commitment to helping school systems end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students. We work at every level of the public education system to attract and train talented teachers and school leaders, ensure rigorous and engaging classrooms, and create environments that prioritize great teaching and accelerate student learning.   Staff on TNTP's Client Team work alongside teachers, school leaders, districts and states to help them achieve their goals for students. In Las Vegas, we are partnering with the Clark County School District to improve their in-house teacher preparation program with a specific focus on increasing the number of diverse and highly effective teachers for students in high-need subject areas. We will support CCSD in designing and implementing a rigorous program that will meet the needs of its highest need student populations.   What You’ll Do  The Site Manager, Instruction will work with our clients in Las Vegas to design and implement a teacher pipeline and training program aimed to raise the quality of classroom instruction for the highest priority subject areas and student populations, including developing teachers into their most effective selves – through consulting with program leadership at the Clark County School District to develop innovative and practice based online and in-person coursework, supporting staff who coach program participants to meet ambitious performance goals, preparing and executing a high-quality teacher training program, and sustaining lasting change by ensuring district staff can manage all program components independently and improve the quality of program participants over time.   Specific responsibilities include:  Support a team of teacher coaches  Support the design and implementation of a high-quality teacher training program from pre-service training through early career support  Develop innovative approaches to cohort-wide teacher development on a fast timeline  Regularly collaborate with your colleagues and program partners to craft a long-term teacher development strategy that ensures new teachers are receiving actionable, differentiated professional development   Work with district partners to ensure that program participants are receiving effective support   Regularly track, measure, and communicate progress to district partners   What You Bring  We are looking for amazing people who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you learn from failure and overcome adversity, cultivate strong relationships, and push yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level.   We expect our Site Managers to:  Know great teaching when they see it. Whether you are watching a teacher deliver a lesson or looking at teacher performance data, you can identify where that teacher is effective, what she/he needs to do to improve, and how to develop her/him.  Partner with education leaders. You’ll regularly interact with, and be expected to influence clients, motivating and guiding them to lead transformative change efforts.   Develop teachers and teacher coaches at various points in their career. You track and analyze teacher data, but it’s what you do with it that really has an impact. Based on your data analysis and what you see in the classroom, you work with coaches to pilot innovative approaches to improving teacher performance under a quick timeline to build a cohort of highly effective teachers.   Contribute to a thriving team. One of your greatest responsibilities and privileges will be to work alongside other TNTP and district staff to create a thriving and inclusive team.  Be comfortable with the unknown. Ambiguity doesn’t scare you; just the opposite, you thrive on it. You will use your creative instincts and information from your staff to develop solutions in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment.   Qualifications  A strong education background and instructional skill set with at least four years of school-based experience with a track record of improving student outcomes, preferably in a high-need school (required)  Strong familiarity with the Common Core State Standards (required)  Experience managing and developing other teachers – as a department chair, instructional coach, assistant principal, or other instructional lead (required)  Ability to communicate direct feedback in a compelling way that inspires teachers or coaches to make immediate improvements to instruction to accelerate achievement  The ability to critically assess challenges and identify effective solutions  The ability to work effectively with others at all levels of an organization and to consistently display a high level of professionalism in all interactions  Flexibility in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment of rapidly changing priorities and tight deadlines   What We Offer   TNTP offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position with the potential for an annual performance based bonus. We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, commuter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan with employer matching. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. TNTP may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.   To Apply   Please submit your resume and tailored cover letter online.     It’s in your best interest to apply as soon as possible. We recommend including a cover letter in your application addressing why you are interested in TNTP and how your experience has prepared you for this position.   TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law.   Learn More  TNTP:  www.tntp.org   Benefits and hiring process: http://tntp.org/join   Life at TNTP: http://tntp.org/about-tntp/our-people

Seeking Dynamic Common Core Experts in Rigorous and Engaging Instruction TNTP seeks a full-time Site Manager for our client team. These positions are based in a home office anywhere in the U.S. Frequent travel up to 50% annually is expected. Who We Are TNTP is a national nonprofit founded by teachers that believes our nation’s public schools can offer all children an excellent education. Today we’re a diverse team from a wide range of fields, united by a fierce commitment to helping school systems end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students. We work at every level of the public education system to attract and train talented teachers and school leaders, ensure rigorous and engaging classrooms, and create environments that prioritize great teaching and accelerate student learning.  TNTP is currently expanding our work into academic strategy to build stronger classrooms for more kids, faster.  While strong human capital policies and practices are necessary to build and maintain excellent schools, we know that in order to ensure students are really learning, districts must have a clear academic vision, the ability to translate that vision to schools, and, most importantly, know how to improve the quality of instruction offered to kids. TNTP is helping schools, districts and states to establish policies and practices that prioritize and support effective teaching, every day.   What You’ll Do As a Site Manager, you will partner with school districts and/or TNTP programs across the country to develop, advocate for and implement models aimed to raise the quality of classroom instruction through the development and implementation of academic strategies. Specific responsibilities may include: Leading projects that will improve the quality of instruction at scale, aligned to the Common Core or other college and career readiness standards in schools.  In particular, this will include supporting school leaders (principals and/or instructional coaches) to design and execute regular cycles of teacher professional learning that is grounded in strong instructional materials and is intended to improve instruction and, ultimately, student outcomes. Tracking the success of these projects and making strategic decisions about what is needed next Helping district and school leaders deliver on their instructional leadership priorities by supporting them with key aspects of their roles, including conducting classroom visits to assess the quality of instruction, supporting implementation of instructional materials aligned to the shifts and demands of college and career ready standards, setting up and maintaining data systems, and executing a strategy to monitor changes in instruction Developing and managing relationships with district leaders, school leaders, teachers and other stakeholders Contributing to the creation of high-quality, data-driven reports demonstrating the effect of newly created models on the quality of instruction What You Bring We are looking for amazing people who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you bring deep knowledge and expertise, but also you learn from failure and overcome adversity, cultivate strong relationships, and push yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level.  We expect our Site Managers to: Know great, Common Core-aligned, teaching and learning when you see it. Whether you are watching how students engage during a lesson or looking at student performance data, you can identify whether students are grappling with the right content and diagnose what needs to happen at the classroom and school level to improve student learning outcomes immediately and in the long-term. You understand the implications of the shifts in instruction required by college and career ready standards for students, teachers, school leaders and district staff. Motivate and influence education leaders.   We’re counting on your strong public presentation skills and your ability to build strong individual relationships.  You’ll regularly partner with, and be expected to influence, clients, teachers and school leaders, investing them in a vision of rigorous instruction that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards or other college and career readiness standards, instructional excellence and generating excitement about effective approaches to professional development.  Translate your Common Core expertise. You have both a deep understanding of instruction and the systems that support—or hinder—it.  You use this knowledge to meet our clients where they are at by designing reasonable solutions to their challenges and you have the ability to assess and adjust to the needs of your clients.  You can clearly communicate complex information to a variety of audiences, including teachers, school leaders and district staff. Connect the dots in ambiguous circumstances. You’ll use your analytical and problem solving skills to design and facilitate trainings and meetings, craft strategic academic interventions that improve student performance, and propose solutions to academic challenges every day. Ambiguity doesn’t scare you; just the opposite, you thrive on it. Your creative instincts will help you deal with vague situations and develop new approaches with limited guidance. Qualifications Strong familiarity and expertise with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) required, including a deep conceptual understanding of the instructional shifts Deep knowledge of content and instruction, with at least four years Pre-K-12 teaching experience, preferably in high-need schools or with high-need populations, and a proven track record of raising student achievement The ability to critically assess challenges and identify effective solutions, particularly in the area of academic strategy Previous experience developing and facilitating adult learning/training  Previous experience and success coaching teachers or leaders  The ability to work effectively with others at all levels of an organization and to consistently display a high level of professionalism in all interactions Demonstrated independence in moving work forward, implementing an agreed-upon strategy and effectively identifying when that strategy needs to be adjusted Flexibility in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment of rapidly changing priorities and tight deadlines  Excellent oral and written communication skills Experience with curriculum selection, adoption, roll out and implementation a plus What We Offer  TNTP offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position with the potential for an annual performance based bonus. We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, commuter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan with employer matching. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. TNTP may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.    To Apply  Please submit your resume and tailored cover letter online.    It’s in your best interest to apply as soon as possible. We recommend including a cover letter in your application addressing why you are interested in TNTP and how your experience has prepared you for this position.  TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law.  Learn More TNTP:  www.tntp.org Benefits and hiring process: http://tntp.org/join  Life at TNTP: http://tntp.org/about-tntp/our-people