Managers of Teacher Leadership Development (MTLD) are at the heart of Teach For America's work. As an MTLD, you will manage, coach, and develop our corps members to fundamentally transform the lives of students and become lifelong advocates for educational equity. You will help corps members’ students achieve major academic and personal growth. You will build leadership in your corps members both in their classrooms as well as the long-term movement. You will also be deeply involved in communities and schools, engaging with principals, students and families.
To reach this vision, you will work directly with a group of secondary teachers. You will regularly collaborate and problem solve with other team members to ensure the success of Teach For America – Oklahoma City. You will play an important role in achieving critical organizational goals in multiple functional areas (for instance, selecting new corps members, recruiting alumni to join staff, or helping out at regional events). You will report to the Senior Managing Director - Program Continuum, who manages and develops you to achieve these goals.
We seek educators from diverse backgrounds with a passion for our mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, and humility. As an MTLD you will:
Lead with a commitment to diversity, equity & inclusiveness
- Deepen your understanding of your own identity by engaging in personal development around diversity, equity and inclusiveness.
- Coach corps members around diversity, equity and inclusiveness, to ensure they are making progress in their development and integrating equitable practices in their classrooms.
- Build meaningful relationships with school level staff, administration and people in the community that may offer differing perspectives, to build a culture that celebrates unique contributions and unites people around shared values and common purpose.
Coach and empower corps members
- Have a deep knowledge of effective teaching practices.
- Observe corps members live in action to help them connect their values and beliefs to their work, stay centered on their classroom visions, and learn critical instructional and leadership skills.
- Facilitate small group sessions and design learning experiences that offer best practices and create communities of collaboration.
- Help corps members understand the community in which they teach and provide strategies for them to build meaningful relationships with multiple partners within the community.
Science Content-Specific Support
- Design and execute individual and group learning experiences to ensure that educators in our network acquire critical instructional and content-specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets to increase proficiency
- Collect, create and maintain high quality instructional tools including long-term plans, assessments, rubrics, etc.
- Build and maintain a data-base of staff and educator-facing content-related resources (sessions, readings, instructional tools, etc.)
- Build district relationships to find, promote, and capitalize on alignment between regional vision, content vision, and school/district vision.
Collaborate with national support team and content specialists in other regions to align on a vision of excellence within the content area, strengthen our capacity for supporting educators across our network, and accelerate student gains in the classroom.
- When faced with obstacles, you deepen resolve, adapt, and persist with optimism.
- You demonstrate resilience in the face of challenges, and you are committed to coaching corps members to do the same.
- You have the ability to engage in difficult conversations.
- You know how to zero in on the main issues and prioritize accordingly with strong solutions.
- You constantly reflect and work to grow and improve.
Requirements
- Minimum of two years of experience achieving ambitious outcomes as a classroom teacher in a low-income community.
- Secondary teaching experience required.
- Secondary science teaching experience preferred.
- Experience coaching adults.
- Have a deep commitment to Teach For America's mission and core values.
Work Demands
- Occasional weekends and evenings.
- Independent travel to multiple school sites throughout the day that may be significant distances from one another.
- Some regions require a valid driver’s license or the ability to obtain one before the first day of employment with no major driving violations in the last three years (varies by region).
- Potentially travel to at least two Teach For America conferences each year.