2025 - 2026 Instructional Coach - Specialist Reading

• Position Type: Central Professional/ Instructional Specialist Reading
• Date Posted: 1/5/2026
• Location: Teaching and Learning

Job Title: Instructional Specialist - RLA (Secondary focus) Wage/Hour Status: Exempt

Reports to: Executive Director of Teaching & Learning Pay Grade: AP 3

Dept./School: Teaching & Learning / Central Office Length of Contract: 226 days

Revised Date: 1/20/26

Primary Purpose

The Instructional Specialist improves teaching and learning across the district by working directly with campus instructional staff to strengthen planning, instruction, and assessment aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). This role focuses on building instructional capacity through job-embedded coaching, collaborative planning, assessment development, and high-quality professional learning.

Instructional Specialists spend the majority of their time on campuses providing job-embedded support to teachers and leaders.

Major Responsibilities and Duties

? Provide instructional coaching to teachers through planning support, classroom observation, feedback, modeling, co teaching, and demonstration lessons.

? Support new, developing, and struggling teachers to improve instructional practice and student learning.

? Collaborate with campus and district leaders using a coach the coach model to strengthen instructional leadership.

? Collaborate with teams of teachers to develop, review, and refine district common assessments aligned to TEKS and appropriate levels of rigor.

? Support lesson internalization and standards based planning, including unpacking standards, identifying success criteria, and planning aligned instruction.

? Design and facilitate professional learning for educators focused on curriculum, content standards, and research based instructional practices.

? Support the effective use of district curriculum resources and instructional materials. Analyze student performance data with teachers and leaders to inform instructional decisions and monitor progress.

? Facilitate collaborative instructional conversations focused on continuous improvement.

Qualifications Education / Certification

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree preferred

Knowledge & Skills

Strong knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment

Understanding of TEKS and standards based instruction

Ability to design and facilitate effective adult professional learning

Ability to analyze and apply student data

Strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills

Experience

Three years' experience as a classroom teacher

Supervisory or leadership experience preferred

Policy, Reports, and Law

Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and local board policy.

Working Conditions

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

Maintain emotional control under stress. Occasional prolonged or irregular hours.

The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.