Early Childhood Education Leadership Coach, DECE, LIV-EA39

Please Note: This Position only open to internal NYC Public Schools (NYCPS) employees.

Early Childhood Education Leadership Coach, DECE, LIV-EA39

Position Summary: The Division of Early Childhood Education (DECE) supports the operational and programmatic functions of early childhood education programs for New York City Public School (NYCPS) children in elementary schools, Pre-K Centers, and NYCPS contracted settings included in Community Based Organizations (CBO) and through Family Child Care (FCC) programs. DECE provides families with access to high quality early childhood options, for children birth to five, in rich diverse settings, supporting children’s growth and development.

As a key member of DECE the Early Childhood Education Leadership Coach provides leadership and expertise to ensure high quality systems and structures, including, but not limited to coaching, professional development, developmental screening implementation, child and program assessment implementation, fostering family partnerships, ensuring effective inclusive classroom environments, and sound support for all learners including children with disabilities and multilingual learners, across all NYCPS birth to five settings.

Reports to: Senior Director of Learning and Partnerships

Direct Reports: Instructional Coordinators and Social Workers

Key Relationships: Divisional Senior Leadership team, Chief of Learning and Partnerships, DECE Senior Directors, program and school leaders, internal and external stakeholders, and key partners.

Responsibilities 

• Ensures citywide facilitation of strengths based coaching and small/large group professional learning
• opportunities for program leaders (e.g., directors, educational directors, education specialists, superintendents, principals, assistant principals) among all NYCP’s early childhood settings (i.e., community based organizations, family childcare, public schools, and charter schools).
• Establishes data informed goals with school/program leaders and support leaders to measure progress and impact.
• Engages in debrief sessions with leaders that are consistent with current research on child development, safety requirements and procedures, effective adult/child interactions, and adult learning.
• Engages in leadership coaching to consistently enhance leader’s own coaching capacity to effectively implement key elements of high quality early childhood education, including, but not limited to, developmental screening tools, authentic child assessment systems, and curriculum.
• Coach leaders in adapting curriculum and implementing strategies to support children with disabilities in
• inclusive and preschool special education classrooms, strategically using the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of children to inform instructional supports for emergent multilingual learners and fostering strong family partnerships.
• Provides professional support to leaders in the development of early childhood family and community
• partnership strategic plans.
• Supports leaders to monitor and analyze school/ program/classroom and child level data that will inform
• planning and professional learning opportunities.
• Supervises early childhood Instructional Coordinators and Social Workers.
• Advises DECE Senior Director of Leadership Coaching and Professional Learning on data informed strengths, gaps, and trends across all NYCPS early childhood settings and recommendations for citywide planning.
• Develops and supports the implementation of data driven in-person/virtual learning walks and intervisitations for key stakeholders to promote reflective practice centered on child learning.
• Supports leaders to orient new and existing programs to the expectations and requirements of learning and partnerships to ensure high quality early childhood education.
• Develops and manages internal and external partnerships to support the vision and goals of DECE related to implementing high quality early childhood education.
• Develops and leads the implementation of instructional programs and large scale projects on a citywide basis.
• Develops and maintains a cooperative working relationship with appropriate City agencies and other NYCPS offices for the identification of professional training and staff development opportunities in early childhood education.
• Establishes and maintains a working relationship with key community school district leaders, CBO leaders, FCCN leaders, DECE staff to ensure the dissemination of relevant information and materials regarding professional learning, current research, program mandates, and innovative program practices in early childhood educations.
• Collaborates within and across teams, internally and externally, to develop and implement various aspects of DECE’s system wide strategic plan as well as exercise flexibility in alignment with priority shifts among programs and the broader NYCPS.
• Supports program leaders in all administrative and instructional aspects of their programs and working with program leaders to build capacity to ensure compliance with all programmatic policies and regulations regularly.
• Works in close collaboration with all key stakeholders to develop and consistently refine policies set forth by the DECE for coaching staff and schools/programs, informed by quantitative/qualitative data and aligned to all city, state, and federal regulations.
• Serves as a resource for personnel at the central, district, and school based levels, early childhood programs of all types, parents, and community groups concerning methodology, materials, practices, and procedures for both traditional and alternative early childhood education initiatives.
• Provides and maintains required documentation as part of the DECE’s coaching model.
• Reports any knowledge of unsafe situations, threats posing imminent danger to the program or to program staff, children/families, and/or allegations of child abuse and maltreatment, consistent with Chancellor’s Regulations immediately.

Qualification Requirements:

Minimum

Applicants must possess a valid New York State certificate in School Administration/Supervision (SAS), School District Administrator (SDA), School Building Leadership (SBL), or the Administrator Certificate. We do not accept internship certificates.

For more information regarding the DOE’s supervisory certification requirements, as well as a link to the New York State Education Department’s website to apply for certification, please visit our website at https://www.schools.nyc.gov/careers/principals-and-assistant-principals/school-leader-and-supervisory-certification

Preferred

• Demonstrated commitment to and advocacy for an inclusive education for children with and without disabilities, per children’s strengths and developmental needs.
• Demonstrated understanding of children’s growth and development from birth to five-years old, including extensive knowledge of the New York State Early Learning Guidelines, New York State Prekindergarten
• Foundation for the Common Core (PKFCC), and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF).
• Demonstrated understanding of developmentally appropriate standards based curriculum and instruction, based on New York State Preschool Learning Standards (NYSPLS).
• Demonstrated knowledge of current early childhood education research related to strengths based adult/child interactions that foster children’s growth, development, and learning, and aligned with the New York State’s Core Body of Knowledge.
• Demonstrated understanding of effective inclusive teaching practices to support all children’s developmental goals, as well as an understanding of research based teaching strategies to support specific and/or IEP goals for children with identified disabilities.
• Demonstrated pedagogical knowledge and capacity to implement culturally and linguistically responsive learning experiences for emergent multilingual learners.
• In-depth understanding of early childhood developmental screening tools, authentic child assessment systems, and curriculum frameworks, and their interconnectedness to support data informed planning for program development, staff capacity building, and children’s learning.
• Knowledge of the New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s health code and section 390 of the New York Social Services Law under the authority of New York State Office of Children and Family Services that governs regulated childcare programs, Head Start Performance Standards, Early Intervention and Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) processes and resources.
• Demonstrated understanding of adult learning and change management theories, and proven ability to

implement systems and practices consistent with such theories.

• Proven ability to provide clear and concise strengths based spoken and written feedback that is data informed and observation based to help leaders make progress toward established goals.
• Proven ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to develop professional learning sessions, small and large group and in-person and virtually.
• Strong project management skills, including project development, execution, and monitoring outcomes.
• Demonstrated capacity to collaborate within and across teams, internally and externally, as well as exercise flexibility in alignment with priority shifts among programs and the broader NYCPS.
• Demonstrated openness to receiving professional feedback from supervisors, program leaders, and colleagues, with active efforts to implement necessary changes to strengthen daily practices and interactions with others.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to use Microsoft Office 365 applications.

Salary: $154,038 - $181,604

NOTE: The filling of all positions is subject to budget availability and/or grant funding.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

It is the policy of the Department of Education of the City of New York to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, marital status, partnership status, disability, sexual orientation, gender (sex), military status, unemployment status, caregiver status, consumer credit history, prior record of arrest or conviction (except as permitted by law), predisposing genetic characteristics, or status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual offenses and stalking, and to maintain an environment free of harassment on any of the above-noted grounds, including sexual harassment or retaliation.  For more information, please refer to the DOE Non-Discrimination Policy.