Instructional Leadership & Coaching

• Serve as Instructional Coach supporting schoolwide instructional improvement.

• Coach teachers individually, including targeted support for EOC teachers and teachers needing additional instructional assistance.

• Conduct classroom walkthroughs and use observations/data to identify instructional needs.

• Develop and reinforce Instructional Non-Negotiables for engagement, learning targets, bell-to-bell instruction, monitoring, feedback, alignment, and classroom expectations.

• Facilitate PLCs, data dives, instructional planning, and professional learning.

• Develop the Instructional Excellence Series with Miles, providing monthly professional development for staff.

• Provide professional development on engagement, differentiation, small-group instruction, multilingual learners, formative assessment, data-driven instruction, classroom management, and other instructional practices.

• Support vertical alignment between middle and high school, including Math 8, Foundations of Math I, and Math I, ELA 7&8th, and English I and II.

Academic Intervention & Pull-Out Program

• Develop, coordinate, and lead the schoolwide academic pull-out intervention program.

• Use CFA, benchmark, classroom, and EOC data to identify students requiring targeted intervention.

• Identify and prioritize bubble students and Tier 2 students for pull-out support.

• Create intervention groups based on specific standards and demonstrated student needs.

• Coordinate pull-out schedules with teachers to minimize disruption to core instruction.

• Personally provide small-group pull-out instruction to targeted students.

• Provide targeted intervention in English II and Math I.

• Pull students multiple times per week for focused 30–45 minute intervention sessions.

• Track which students receive interventions, the standards addressed, and student progress.

• Collaborate with classroom teachers to determine intervention priorities and adjust groups based on new data.

• Use benchmark results to regroup students and determine the next cycle of intervention.

• Ensure MTSS documentation reflects the interventions students actually receive.

• Communicate with teachers, administrators, students, and families regarding intervention expectations and progress.

• Coordinate intervention opportunities through W3 in addition to scheduled pull-out sessions.

• Connect the pull-out program directly to Benchmark and EOC preparation, ensuring intervention is targeted rather than general remediation

EOC, Benchmark & Academic Achievement

• Coordinate and support English II and Math I EOC improvement efforts.

• Work with EOC teachers to analyze standards, pacing, CFAs, benchmark results, and student performance.

• Identify bubble students and students needing Tier 2 academic intervention.

• Develop and coordinate targeted EOC intervention groups.

• Pull students for small-group English II/Math I intervention.

• Develop benchmark trackers and processes for students to analyze question difficulty and performance.

• Facilitate post-assessment data dives and help teachers translate results into instructional action.

• Coordinate student conferences following benchmarks.

• Support EOC remediation, tutoring, Saturday sessions, and other academic recovery efforts.

• Help maintain a visible, data-driven focus on student growth and school performance.

MTSS

• Serve as MTSS Coordinator.

• Coordinate Tier 2 academic interventions.

• Develop and monitor weekly MTSS/intervention documentation.

• Work with teachers to ensure intervention students are identified through data.

• Monitor student progress and determine whether interventions need to be adjusted.

• Coordinate communication with families regarding intervention needs.

• Work with administrators and teachers to connect attendance, behavior, and academic concerns to student support.

Schoolwide Literacy Leadership

• Serve as a Literacy Specialist/Leader for LSHS.

• Lead the schoolwide disciplinary literacy initiative.

• Develop common literacy strategies and lessons for implementation across departments.

• Meet with department chairs and departments to support implementation.

• Develop tools such as Q Annotations, RCQs, OEQs, RACE responses, close-reading strategies, and test-taking strategies.

• Collect implementation and student-performance data.

• Lead literacy-focused professional development.

• Support English II curriculum, instruction, assessment, and EOC alignment.

• Help expand reading culture and library usage.

• Coordinate/plan Family Literacy events and literacy support for families.

• Support student and family book-club initiatives.

ACT/College Readiness

• Develop and coordinate the Junior ACT Improvement Plan.

• Analyze PreACT data and organize juniors into targeted intervention groups.

• Coordinate mandatory ACT preparation during W3.

• Plan after-school ACT preparation.

• Plan monthly Saturday ACT preparation sessions.

• Develop an ACT student resource page.

• Coordinate a virtual ACT Parent Night to build family understanding and support.

• Monitor junior progress through the ACT preparation cycle.

W3 – Winning Wednesday

• Coordinate the schoolwide Winning Wednesday (W3) program.

• Develop the club/intervention structure.

• Manage student club selections and placements.

• Maintain club rosters and student assignments.

• Communicate with teachers, students, and club sponsors.

• Determine SEL placements for students who do not select clubs.

• Coordinate SEL sections and teacher assignments.

• Coordinate W3 academic interventions.

• Use W3 for targeted EOC and ACT support.

• Troubleshoot enrollment, capacity, student placement, and staffing issues throughout implementation.

Beginning Teacher Leadership

• Serve as the Beginning Teacher Coordinator/Lead BT.

• Coordinate support for beginning teachers at LSHS.

• Help coordinate district BT professional development.

• Develop and facilitate BT professional-development sessions.

• Conduct BT check-ins and reflection activities.

• Provide instructional and classroom-management coaching to beginning teachers.

• Help teachers develop effective 90-minute lessons, routines, procedures, and engagement strategies.

• Collaborate with BT leads across the district.

Student Recognition & Academic Honors

• Serve as Junior Marshal Advisor/Coordinator.

• Coordinate the selection, preparation, expectations, and responsibilities of Junior Marshals.

• Support academic recognition connected to graduation and senior honors.

• Oversee/support the development and preparation of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian speeches.

• Coach student speakers on speech writing, organization, delivery, tone, and preparation.

• Support other student speakers and recognition activities connected to major school ceremonies.

School Culture, Recognition & Events

• Help plan and coordinate schoolwide student/staff celebrations.

• Develop programs, scripts, presentations, recognition sequences, and logistics for major events.

• Help coordinate grade-level student meetings focused on celebrations, attendance, expectations, monthly information, and student voice.

• Support pep rallies and other school-culture initiatives.

• Help organize student awards and staff recognition.

• Played a major planning/production role in Excellence Unveiled, celebrating LSHS earning its historic B school performance grade.

• Support efforts to communicate and celebrate academic growth with students, staff, families, district leadership, and the community.

Communications & School Branding

• Coordinate the LSHS school newsletter initiative, involving both students and staff.

• Establish newsletter submission timelines and publication cycles.

• Recruit and organize student contributors.

• Support teachers and students in developing articles, photographs, interviews, polls, cartoons, features, and other content.

• Help manage schoolwide instructional and program communication.

• Support teacher website expectations and consistency.

• Develop staff emails, student communications, parent communications, presentations, flyers, forms, and other schoolwide materials.

Curriculum & Direct Student Support

• Provide direct instruction and intervention in ELA and Math I/Foundations of Math I.

• Develop lessons, assessments, stations, remediation activities, and differentiated instructional materials.

• Support English II standards alignment and EOC-style assessment development.

• Support Math I instructional improvement and intervention.

• Work directly with students who need additional academic support rather than limiting your role to teacher coaching.

Data & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze CFA, benchmark, EOC, PreACT/ACT, attendance, and intervention data.

• Help EOC teachers identify standards requiring reteaching.

• Develop systems for tracking student performance.

• Help identify trends across classrooms and departments.

• Work with administrators to determine where coaching, intervention, or increased monitoring is needed.

• Help translate school-performance goals into specific instructional actions.

BENCHMARK SCHEDULE

FALL

Benchmark 1: September 28 – October 2, 2026

Benchmark 2: November 2 – November 6, 2026

SPRING

Benchmark 1: February 22 – February, 2027

Benchmark 2: April 12 – April 16, 2027