Instructional Coach

Position Type:
Professional Educator - Secondary/Instructional Coach - Secondary

Date Posted:
11/12/2025

Location:
Prairie Phoenix Academy
(High-Needs School)
STARTING WAGE: $10,583.60+ annually(based on experience)

This position is part time 0.2 FTE (8 hours/week).

Our Mission:
Futures depend on us to inspire and prepare every child, every day, by providing relevant, engaging, and innovative learning experiences in and out of the classroom.

SUMMARY
Our Vision:
To be a high performing district of choice that reflects the cultures of our diverse community. To realize this vision, all instructional coaches support professional educators to implement the Sun Prairie Area School District's Instructional Framework in order to ensure coherent instructional programs and high levels of student achievement for all students.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Coaches the Educational Environment

Coaches others to create conditions so that students can acquire habits, skills, and attributes regarding their emotional development, self-concept, and social competence. This includes opportunities to access high quality social-emotional learning (SEL) instruction, evidence-based educator practices, and the integration of social-emotional competencies into the learning environments.

Coaches others to establish student/educator relationships as a partnership. Sun Prairie learning environments will be places where emotional connection and trust are the foundations for educators to provide both strong relationships and expect high standards. Coaches support educators to support each student's feelings of belonging and value in their learning community. Students are learning partners with one another within their classroom communities.

Develops a sense of school connectedness and belonging through the development of genuine caring, nurturing, and supportive relationships between and among students and educators so that students have a positive experience at school.

Utilizes restorative practices to emphasize community-building and the development of belonging and acceptance as a means to establish positive relationships and connection. When harm occurs between individuals and/or to the community, there is a focus on repairing the relationship in order to restore a healthy sense of community.

Coaches Educational Experiences

Coaches educators to create conditions where educators and students combine knowledge of learner interests, learner development, and academic and social-emotional learning standards (SEL) to provide challenging, aligned, and enduring learning experiences. Coaches educators to adapt and supplement curriculum as needed.

Analyzes and leverages student data to determine coaching cycles. Coaches others to analyze and leverage student data when supplementary learning opportunities are needed in order to ensure learning of essential standards.

Coaches others to provide students with assessment opportunities to demonstrate competency and proficiency of essential standards. Competency is defined by student understanding, and proficiency is defined by a student's ability to apply their learning to unique or authentic problems.

Coaches others to provide opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding of standards in multiple formats and media. Tasks and assessments contain developmentally appropriate and increasingly expansive opportunities for students to use spoken word, writing, composition, demonstration or other forms of expression to communicate understanding and create meaning.

Coaches provide feedback that is prompt, aligned to school goals and promotes educators' self reflection. Coach also supports educators to provide students' feedback that is prompt, aligned to learning targets, and promotes students' self-reflection.

Coaches support others to allow students to have real, significant, and authentic choices about their learning, and the strategies and approaches they will use to meet learning objectives. Students may align choices to their areas of interest. Students are able to communicate their learning goals and then set, plan and achieve…