Calhoun County Schools
Position Vacancy

Position Tracking Number: 2024-013

Position: Math Coach

Location: Weaver Elementary School

Opening Date: March 18, 2024

Closing Date:    April 8, 2024

Expected Date of Employment:     July 17, 2024

Qualifications:
  • Hold a valid Alabama professional educator certificate in early childhood education, elementary education, or special education.
  • Have a minimum of five years of experience as an early childhood, elementary, or special education teacher.
  • Demonstrate expertise, as attested by a current or former employing county or city superintendent of education, in mathematics instruction and intervention and early numeracy interventions, including dyscalculia interventions.
  • Hold a master's degree or have completed professional development recommended by the Elementary Mathematics Task Force, or both.
Duties/Responsibilities:
  • Supporting the improvement of instruction with an emphasis on Tier 1 instruction to ensure students do not fall behind.
  • Collaborating with the school principal and faculty to establish and implement a strategic plan for coaching and mathematics instruction to improve student achievement in mathematics.
  • Facilitating schoolwide mathematics professional learning, including job-embedded assistance using coaching strategies, including joint preplanning, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, targeted observation to collect data, and debriefing.
  • Modeling evidence-based mathematics instructional and intervention strategies for teachers.
  • Continuously mentoring and coaching teachers.
  • Assisting teachers in using data to differentiate mathematics instruction and to identify students exhibiting the characteristics of dyscalculia and other exceptionalities.
  • Monitoring the progress of K-5 students in mathematics through benchmark formative assessments at least three times per year and making recommendations for modifying instruction based on the individual needs of students and trends in student data.
  • Focusing solely as a mathematics coach for schools with elementary grade students.
  • Collaborating with teachers and grade-level teams of teachers to foster the use of appropriate instructional materials, including concrete materials, necessary to ensure that students understand mathematical concepts.
  • Collaborating with grade-level teams to develop rigorous tasks, lessons, and assessments aligned with grade-level mathematics content standards; to facilitate the analysis of student work samples and assessment data; and to work in partnership with teachers to provide real-time feedback and make next-step instructional decisions based on the student evidence.
  • Assisting teachers in using formative assessments and analyzing student work to identify students with misconceptions, students exhibiting characteristics of dyscalculia, and students needing acceleration.
  • Assisting teachers in administering early numeracy screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, in Grades K-2. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
  • Assisting teachers with administering fractional reasoning screeners or diagnostic assessments, or both, for students in grades four and five, subject to legislative appropriation. The assistance of a mathematics coach may not exceed two hours per week.
  • Advocating, planning, and coordinating opportunities, in conjunction with the principal, for school-based family and community engagement in mathematics.
  • Actively and cooperatively participating in any Office of Mathematics Improvement (OMI) regional coordinator and Alabama Mathematics, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) regional mathematics specialist visits and professional learning to meet agreed upon personal outcomes and all school, district, and state established mathematics goals.
  • Engaging in ongoing learning opportunities to grow in knowledge, skills, and expertise in mathematics.
  • Facilitating the use of assessment data in all tiers of mathematics instruction to assist in making decisions that will move students to higher levels of performance in mathematics.
  • Planning or facilitating, or both, professional learning opportunities that will assist teachers in targeting student deficits; facilitate professional conversations; foster student engagement; assess student learning; reflect on professional practice; and identify next learning steps to achieve state, district, and school goals in mathematics.
  • Recording job duties and time spent with teachers on a state-specified electronic platform.
  • Supporting teachers in the authentic integration of computer science and computational thinking concepts within the mathematics classroom.
Length of Contract/Terms:
10 Months / 202 Days

Compensation:
As per Board salary schedule for this position

Application Process:
1.Complete an online application at the State Dept. of Education’s “Teach in Alabama” website (www.alsde.edu/TeachInAlabama) and include all attachments: Alabama Teacher’s Certificate, college transcript(s), and current resume.
2.Click on the “Jobs” link on Teach in Alabama and select all desired posting(s).
3.Complete a Statement of Interest form available for download on our website at www.calhouncountyschools.com (under the “Employment” tab) or at the Central Office.
4.Print and sign one paper copy of the completed Teach in Alabama application with attachments.
5.Mail or hand deliver both the Statement of Interest Form and the signed application with attachments to the following address:

Employment Committee
Calhoun County Schools
P.O. Box 2084
4400 McClellan Blvd. Anniston, AL 36202

Only ONE signed paper application should be submitted. These will be retained for a 3-year period and a new signed application need not be submitted unless applicant information has changed so that updates are needed. If you later apply for additional vacancies, submit only a new Statement of Interest form, which will be added to the signed application already on file.
This position will be subject to the Students First Act of 2011. Calhoun County Schools reserves the right to fill this position by transfer of a qualified applicant who is already employed by the Calhoun County School System.

Under the Students First Act of 2011, no credit toward tenure or non-probationary status is earned in the initial school year of employment if the date of hire occurs after September 30.

The Calhoun County Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, national origin, religious belief, gender, or disability. Those applicants needing reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the school principal/supervisor or Superintendent's Office.