The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is the State Education Agency for the District of Columbia charged with raising the quality of education for all DC residents. OSSE is focused on sustaining, accelerating, and deepening the progress being made for the District’s 90,000+ students. OSSE serves as the District’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Education and works closely with the District’s 470+ early childhood facilities, 250+ schools, 60+ local education agencies (including DCPS and charter organizations), and community-based organizations to provide critical programming and resources to our stakeholders.

OSSE’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) team currently manages the District of Columbia’s first Advanced Technical Center (ATC) and plans to open its second center tentatively in August 2025 in Ward 8. ATCs are designed to deliver multiple CTE programs of study in a well-equipped facility to visiting students from high schools from across the city and prepares them for highwage, high-skill, and/or in-demand careers in our region. ATCs are critical to the access and equity goals of OSSE and removes a number of participation barriers by allowing students from all over the city to access CTE coursework not offered at their home campus. 

Specifically, the Instructional Coach for our ATCs is located within the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), Office of Post-Secondary and Career Education Division. Reporting to the State CTE Director, the position plays a critical role in implementing OSSE’s instructional vision of the ATCs, with alignment to its unique college and career programming that provides students opportunities for work-based learning experiences, industry recognized credentials, workforce licensing, and connections to postsecondary education pathways.

Under the supervision of the State CTE Director, the instructional coach for the Advanced Technical Centers is responsible for onsite quality instructional implementation and monitoring. The Instructional Coach will work in collaboration with the respective ATC Administrators and their postsecondary instructional partners to guide and support ATC instructors in the delivery of curriculum, instruction, and assessment according to the elements of high-quality CTE programming. The Instructional Coach also collaborates with stakeholders to support program activities, goals, objectives, and outcomes while ensuring accountability for instructional and curricular deliverables.

Specific functions of the Instructional Coach of the CTE Advanced Technical Centers include: 

• Assist instructors in implementing and maintaining an engaging classroom environment which scaffolds rigor, stimulates learning, and produces high levels of student achievement among all students
• Develop an observation and benchmark tool to be used in classroom observations
• Develop and lead the ATC instructor Summer Institute in preparation for each school year
• Conduct recurring observations of instructors to provide frequent and ongoing feedback on instructional delivery while facilitating appropriate support interventions
• Develop, complete, and submit to each ATC instructor, the relevant ATC Administrator, and their respective postsecondary institution employer an ATC instructor evaluation in the middle of the school year and the end of the school year
• Support the respective ATC Administrators in developing a campus improvement plan that addresses academic achievement and responds to needs identified by OSSE, DC CTE, and other surveys and assessments
• Work with post-secondary partners in identifying and implementing high quality curriculum that is aligned to OSSE CTE course standards
• Work in coordination with the ATC Student Success Advisors to support strategies to improve completion rates of programs of study
• Work in coordination with ATC instructors and industry partners to integrate work - based learning and possible co -teaching into curriculum
• Providing instructional leadership in monitoring, implementing and increasing student success on industry credentials and licensures
• Provide support to teachers and administrators in analyzing student data and using it to make instructional decisions
• Support the maintenance of Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) and the integration of content between CTSOs and the classroom
• Guide instructors with strategies used to support student remediation and enrichment including those students with specialized needs
• Provide regular staff development and training to support CTE instructors’ efficacy and success in the classroom
• Support instructors in facilitating innovative learning strategies and the use of best teaching practices
• Support the implementation of, learning management systems, and other technological tools used to deliver assessment, curriculum, and instruction
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the State CTE Director.

Key qualifications for the role include:

• Significant teaching experience with knowledge of effective instructional strategies pertaining to assessment, classroom management, differentiated instruction, learning modalities, lesson design, industry-aligned instruction, and project-based learning.
• Ability to work closely with educators and educational administrators (at both the secondary and postsecondary levels), private sector partners, business and labor leaders, researchers, test developers, and vendors; to apply expert judgment in the identification, adoption, and adaptation of nationally-validated, industry-based knowledge and skill standards and assessments.
• Ability to Develop and facilitate effective, engaging, and targeted, research-based staff development training and devise strategies to support instructors in delivering effective and engaging instruction. 
• Professional and detailed knowledge of essential Federal and District workforce education and training and educational reform legislation and regulations-including the Strengthening Career and Technical Education Act of 2018 ("Perkins V") and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 ("WIOA"), and its successors-plus working knowledge of applicable provisions of the Higher Education Act, as amended, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), and Education Department General Administrative Regulation (EDGAR).

Our ideal candidate will also have:

•  Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• Prior experience in instructional leadership roles

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply by visiting careers.dc.gov and entering Job ID 27629 in the "Search Jobs" field.