Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2025-08-05

Location:Administration or As Assigned

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for

performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.

Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Network Support Leader
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 6
Compensation: $ 61,510.00 - $ 86,114.00

The Pre-K-12 Action Team Coach is a pivotal role. The ATC will be school-based, and will work closely with the Principal and School Leadership Team at each CMSD school in his or her portfolio. The ATC is ultimately accountable for successfully executing a program of job-embedded, ongoing, and customized professional development for overall school improvement, working with Principals, Academic Superintendents, Deputy Chiefs, the Chief Academic Officer, and others as needed to monitor progress and adjust Academic Achievement Plans as necessary to meet goals for student achievement.

Responsibilities

The Action Team Coach should have a sophisticated sense of how to use information to diagnose and intervene to improve educational outcomes, and be able to manage and motivate multiple teams
Work collaboratively with Principals and School Leadership Teams and the Academic Superintendent and CAO Deputy Chiefs to evaluate and frame the work to be done at each CMSD school in the portfolio
Lead conversations and processes that engage principals, teachers, subject area specialists, department chairs, Literacy and Math coaches, and others to use all available data, including student achievement data, curriculum, lesson plans, teaching strategies, and other benchmark data that affect student achievement in order to define the joint work of the school and its Action Team
Identify specific principal, teacher and student needs and develop customized curriculum, teacher professional development, and school leadership strategies to build capacity and a culture of collaborative support
Facilitate meetings between Action Team Barrier Breakers, Flexible Content Experts and Solution Specialists to ensure necessary services and resources are provided to schools in a timely manner
Mentor and serve as general resource person for principals and teachers by providing model lessons, coaching and ongoing professional assistance
Work with new teachers to incorporate best practices in their curriculum and classroom management techniques
Manage targeted curriculum development projects on behalf of the Deputy Chiefs and Academic Superintendents
Participate in periodic meetings, conferences and workshops organized to address urgent issues and to share strategies for achieving greater levels of student success
Collaborate and coordinate work across reporting and departmental lines to ensure that all key stakeholders get fully and timely information regarding student academic progress
Research current academic issues, providing principals and teachers with up-to-date data, relevant and timely application of assessment tools, and concrete instructional strategies for boosting student achievement
Monitor, document and evaluate the academic progress of each school within the portfolio

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required, Master's preferred
The successful candidate should be willing to do whatever it takes to advance CMSD's transformation work
Prior experience working in a high-stakes academic (K-12) context with state-of-the-art professional development programs
Respect for, and command of, national and state assessment tools and a knowledge of how to work with existing curricula and shape them to meet exacting standards
Demonstrated success in achieving measurable success in a results-oriented environment with shifting priorities and deadlines
Successful classroom teaching experience strongly preferred
Practical data management skills; the ability to interpret student assessment data accurately, convert it into concrete action plans, and explain it persuasively to teachers and others
Demonstrated willingness to go above and beyond for CMSD students and a sense of urgency about meeting student learning needs to measurably increase their performance
Optimism about instituting a change agenda, and a defined sense of how to contribute to the overall success of the transformation process
Strong computer skills, preferably with PowerPoint and Excel

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Expected to move, walk, and stand consistently in an office environment, and occasionally lift up to 15 pounds
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment
Local travel may be required for training/meetings

Note: The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility. Local travel may be required for training and meetings.

Education

To Apply

Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.

EEO Statement

We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:

1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

(216)-838-0070

TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org