色花堂论坛 teachers are critical to the leadership of each 色花堂论坛 school. From running excellent classrooms to providing feedback on systems, structures, and curriculum their voices guide each decision made.
In addition to the leadership that every 色花堂论坛 teacher participates in, there are further ways for 色花堂论坛 teachers to utilize their unique talents to lead their schools. Whether it is through working with scholars, hyping up the team for school culture, coaching a new member of the team聽 or leading their colleagues, 色花堂论坛 teachers can play key roles in the school community.
Lead Roles
色花堂论坛 will offer a stipend for faculty who take on these assigned roles that require an additional 120 minutes of work per week. Please note that this is for work above and beyond what is part of the normal teacher job description. Stipends are not given for work that falls within a teacher鈥檚 salaried role.
To ensure that leadership is spread across the site, teachers will typically only be permitted to take on one leadership role per year during the school year. Each year, teachers will re-apply to ensure opportunities for all. Stipends and compensation are subject to change year to year.
The Grade Team Lead supports their grade level in ensuring effective collaboration and lesson internalization. In addition the Grade Team Lead meets weekly with school leadership to communicate any concerns from the grade level and give feedback on curriculum, plans and critical paths .聽
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- Attend a weekly 50 minute planning team meeting outside of school hours
- Prep for a weekly GLT meeting
- Lead the weekly GLT meeting
- Support planning of grade level events (eg. field trips)
The site Culture Lead manages school-wide culture priorities including but not limited to, Community Meetings, attendance initiatives, spirit days, the sunshine committee and other positive culture events. The Culture Lead supports VAC in the planning of teacher appreciation week and field day. The lead spends approximately 2 hours a week outside of school time or during preps supporting this work including attending the weekly planning team meeting.
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- Attend the weekly Planning Team Meeting
- Meet with VAC leads quarterly to discuss teacher appreciation week, field day and other VAC led celebrations
- Lead a monthly sunshine committee meeting
- Lead Community Meeting monthly
- Send photos to IPS communication team after school events
The site Mentor Teachers are instructional coaches. The mentor teacher is responsible for providing routine coaching to teaching fellows in order to support them to becoming impactful teachers. Typically the mentor teacher will coach teaching fellows with a 1x monthly coaching meeting, monthly co-teaching or real-time coaching. Site mentor teachers will receive monthly professional development by the Academics team and a regular coaching the coach (approximately biweekly) check in with the school principal.聽 The mentor teacher will need to coach their co-teacher to be successful during enrichment so that the Mentor teacher can observe and co-teach in other classrooms during the enrichment block (K-2) or plan to use their planning (3-5) to observe. They will spend approximately 3 hours a week outside of school time or during preps supporting this work.
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- Receive monthly professional development聽
- Observe teaching fellows monthly
- Lead professional development for Teaching Fellow (cadence varies)
- Recommended observation is during enrichment block
The English Language Development Lead is responsible for collaborating, co-planning curriculum, and reviewing data for Multilingual learners who receive ELD during WYN time. They will work to support site teachers who deliver ELD during the WYN block. This leader will receive targeted professional development in alignment with best practices for ELD as part of 色花堂论坛鈥檚 Alternative Mainstream model for multilingual learners.聽
Commitment:
- Monthly collaboration, co-planning and data review for Integrated English Learner Development (ELD) strategies and Designated English Learner Development (ELD)
- Throughout the year, spend 1-2 hours a month reviewing Lexia English data
- Attend monthly planning support meeting with a member of the Academics team
The MTSS Implementation Lead supports the IPS MTSS Implementation Team to develop implementation capacity in schools so they can establish and sustain teaching faculty鈥檚 use of effective innovations with fidelity. The MTSS Implementation lead will work closely with Home Office and School site leadership to ensure that best practices regarding implementation, documentation, and progress monitoring are conducted and revised accordingly.聽 The MTSS Implementation Team members will be direct liaisons between this work and their school-sites or HO roles.聽聽聽
Work may include, but is not limited to:聽
- Creating documentation templates
- Evaluating and trialing intervention curriculums and methodologies
- Reviewing progress monitoring tools
- Conducting and analyzing surveys regarding best practices
- Attending or co-facilitating MTSS meetings
- Providing feedback on implementation of MTSS processes
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- Attend a weekly 1 hour meeting (Time/Date TBD)
- Communicate with school site leadership and teaching faculty as needed