Job Description
Job Summary Instructional Coach Position Start Date: November 1, 2026 About Covenant Academy of Mobile (CAM): Covenant Academy of Mobile is the area's first elementary charter school that opened on August 8, 2023, with grades K-5th. During the 2027-28 school year, 8th grade will be added, and thereafter, a new grade level will be added yearly until 12th grade is established. The school serves approximately 460 students. Covenant Academy of Mobile provides a "non-traditional" education that prepares students in a S.T.E.A.M. environment to be leaders in a globalized world.
Mission: To create and maintain a positive learning environment that promotes relevant and engaging learning, inspires students to be ambassadors of good character, empowers students to develop skill sets and a passion for lifelong learning. By maintaining this environment, we provide opportunities for our students to be productive and caring contributors in a changing world.
We are committed to empowering all students to take ownership of their learning, so they can prepare for success as leaders in a globalized world. Through the efforts of dedicated teachers, administrators, parents, and mentors, all students will be challenged and motivated in an environment that facilitates growth and success.
Personal Attributes: - Support the mission and vision of our school.
- Set and work to attain high goals for our students and themselves.
- Ready to be a part of a collaborative team.
- Open to receiving coaching and support.
- Demonstrate initiative, persistence, and resiliency.
- Result-oriented and a reflective learner.
Minimum Qualifications: An Instructional Coach shall have all the following minimum qualifications:
- Hold a valid Alabama professional certificate in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or Special Education.
- Have a minimum of five (5) years of successful teaching experience as an early childhood, elementary, secondary, or special education teacher.
- Demonstrate expertise in instructional strategies, intervention, and data-driven instruction.
- Hold a Master's degree or have completed state-recommended professional development frameworks in curriculum and instruction.
Duties and Responsibilities: The primary role of the Instructional Coach is to work directly with teachers to improve instruction and student achievement. Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Administrative & Strategic Support: Assists the principal in advocating, facilitating, and monitoring instructional strategies that improve student achievement across all student demographics.
- Differentiated Instruction: Assists teachers with the development and implementation of instructional strategies that support differentiated instruction to meet the needs of remedial, average, and advanced students.
- Classroom Coaching: Provides strategic classroom coaching, modeling, co-teaching, and ongoing follow-up to develop model literacy and core academic classrooms to build school-based literacy capacity.
- Tier 1 Instruction: Supports the improvement of core instruction with an emphasis on Tier 1 systems to ensure students do not fall behind.
- Professional Learning: Facilitates schoolwide professional learning, including job-embedded assistance such as joint preplanning, modeling lessons, targeted data-driven observations, and collaborative debriefing.
- Data Analysis: Assists teachers and grade-level teams in analyzing formative benchmarks, screeners, and student work samples to identify student misconceptions, target learning deficits, and provide real-time feed-forward instructional choices.
- Family & Community Engagement: Advocates, plans, and coordinates opportunities, in conjunction with the school principal, for school-based family and community engagement in student learning.
- Professional Growth: Participates actively and cooperatively in district and regional educational specialist site visits and professional development to meet state, district, and school goals.
Job Details & Benefits: - Job Type: Full-time (8-hour shift, Monday to Friday)
- Pay: $48,358.00 - $70,000.00 per year
- Work Location: In person (Mobile, AL 36693)
- Ability to Relocate: Mobile, AL 36693: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Benefits: - Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Retirement plan / 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
Job Tags
Full time, Relocation, Monday to Friday, Shift work