Teach For America – Twin Cities is seeking a Manager, Teacher Leadership Development (MTLD). MTLDs manage, coach, and develop our corps members and school-based alumni educators to ensure that their students experience transformational academic outcomes, personal growth, and leadership development. MTLDs deeply engage our corps members to cultivate and enhance their learning and professional development in areas of instructional knowledge, skills and excellence; student and family engagement; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and a variety of mindsets focused on providing them the foundation necessary to achieve ambitious student learning and academic goals. MTLD also apply their knowledge, skills, and learning to help shape the support for our 200+ base of alumni teachers. MTLDs contribute to the collective responsibility of our regional team to create a connected and thriving network in which our constituents actively support our corps members, alumni, and leaders to achieve impact and become lifelong advocates for educational equity.
As the Twin Cities region develops and implements innovative continuum programming, our MTLDS will build on the foundations of transformational coaching while also leading new, vision-aligned initiatives that drive our region towards breakthrough results in corps culture, alumni engagement, and student outcomes. MTLD’s will play a critical role informing how the Twin Cities Region continues to develop a strong, localized theory of leadership development with differentiated strategies as well as programing scope and sequence for first and second-year corps members and alumni. MTLDs will problem solve, test, create case studies for our own learning and the organization’s learning, and improve upon our ability to create a program whose leaders are focused on collective impact at every stage of our participant experience. The MTLD role will report directly to the Director of Program Continuum & Partnerships for the Twin Cities region and will work closely alongside other members of the Program Continuum & Partnerships Team as well as the Twin Cities Regional team.
Transformational Coaching (50%)
- Directly coach a cohort of 12-17 corps members and hold an alumni portfolio of 15-25 alumni.
- Manage and develop our corps members to be able to confidently design and deliver strong instruction to their students through a variety of different supports (one-on-one coaching, professional developments, peer-to-peer facilitated learning, and targeted content-area support consultancy/interventions).
- Lead corps members to meet ambitious and measurable teacher leadership goals through short-cycle coaching and ongoing professional development
- Support corps members in actively seeking out opportunities to build greater context and leadership to deepen their identity development and direct their professional development and personalized learning
- Ensure strong culture, engagement, and retention across corps member cohort and alumni portfolio
- Commit to developing personal coaching practice, through workshops, professional development, and regional programming
- Help corps members understand the community in which they teach, the people they work with and the schools they are a part of and provide strategies for them to build meaningful relationships with multiple partners within the community.
- At the end of a successful year of work, you will have built a strong foundation of instructional excellence in your cohort of first-year corps members. As a result of maximizing the instructional development of their cohort of first-year corps members, you and your corps members will be able to see students on a new path of expanded life opportunities due to major academic growth.
Program Continuum Design and Delivery (20%)
- Inform enhancement of participant journey and leadership development trajectory that starts with prospective applicants includes admitted and matriculated candidates through the onboarding of incoming corps members and their summer training (Induction and Institute), and continues into the 2-year corps commitment, and extends into alumnihood.
- Execute and manage a comprehensive and supportive scope and sequence for first-year corps members that sets a strong foundation for them as they transition into their second-year experience, which will focus primarily on leadership development and activation of personal and community possibility.
- Create and facilitate instructional learning experiences for continuum professional development, including professional Saturday sessions, cohort time, and skill-based workshops.
Program Continuum & Regional Impact Projects (20%)
- Develop and enhance network understanding of student outcomes data including but not limited to student growth, classroom culture, engagement with rigorous content, and student feedback on instruction and learning
- Contribute to the health and sustainability of the Program Continuum Team and Region through implementing impact projects (including but not limited to matriculation, onboarding, recruitment, corps member hiring, and more).
- Support, mentor, and supervise interns, fellow, alumni, and volunteers as they contribute to regional initiatives and learn and develop into equity-minded leaders committed to education excellence
Collective Responsibility (10%)
- Advance TFA’s mission by participating in recruitment and selection for corps members and mobilizing alumni and community leaders to strengthen the movement for educational equity.
- Build strong relationships with school leaders, district leaders, community partners and to deepen teacher leadership
- Support Twin Cities regional operations by executing regional responsibilities such as ensuring compliance with TFA human capital, finance, and data management policies and procedures contributing to regional and national meetings and events.
- Advance Team Culture and sense of community by operating within TFA’s Core Value and commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness
- At least 3 years of teaching experience with strong and measurable classroom results
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and influence, particularly across lines of difference
- Experience in adult coaching preferred
Skills
- Ability to analyze classrooms across multiple content areas and grade levels
- Ability to coach adults toward measurable outcomes
- Strong prioritization and decision-making skills
- Deep understanding of diversity: racial, gender, socioeconomic, etc. and how it is present in education
- Analyzing multiple data sources (both qualitative and quantitative) to draw accurate conclusions and to inform team-wide approach as well as individual priorities and actions
- Tracking tasks, assessing progress, and following through on the execution of larger scale plans
- Developing and cultivating relationships and networks internally and externally in order to achieve results and gain alignment
Work Demands
- Willingness to work some weekends and evenings to facilitate the corps member professional development
- Willingness to travel within the region for in-person meetings as well as supporting TLD staff and corps members across the region