Success Coach

Sumary: Limitless Success Coaches aim to unlock and maximize the potential of every student. Help students navigate the rapidly changing, high-pressure environments of modern-day adolescence by providing rich, instructional experiences. Teach students how to manage pressures that come with school and life, set and achieve goals, develop positive habits, discover their passions, and more. Tailor support to students from different contexts and cultures, use a strengths-based approach, and work with families to remove any barriers to learning. Regularly meet with students, parents, teachers, and staff about student progress, goals, motivations, and success strategies. Lead collaborative efforts toward robust program development.

Day to day:

Instructional Planning and Preparation

• Knowledge of working with a diverse student population and of processes that promote successful student progress towards achievement of educational and personal goals
• Pedagogical knowledge in coaching
• Research-based knowledge of habits of success, academic skills and behaviors, motivational factors, and student executive functions, with specialized knowledge in one or more content areas
• Excellent analytical skills to help improve decision making

Learning Environment

• Ability to promote student success, while fostering students? sense of belonging
• Knowledge of adolescent development (e.g., adolescent philosophies, lived experiences, identity development).
• Ability to conduct relationships with students and their families in a diverse environment of respect and rapport
• Ability to provide a trusted environment where students can share their thoughts, aspirations, concerns, and interests.
• Ability to motivate student interest and action in the development and attainment of goals
• Ability to manage norms for student conduct (online and on-campus)
• Ability to identify, address, and resolve barriers to goal attainment with student

Instructional Practice

• Ability to design and execute coherence in instructional planning, coaching, assessment, and student goal attainment
• Ability to coach student learning in a classroom setting (in-person and online) in accordance with best practices in instruction
• Ability to use variety of assessment methods and techniques to measure student progress toward learning targets
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and adaptivity in instructional practice in response to student learning needs and environmental conditions.
• Ability to use technology to effectively coach student

Professional Responsibilities

• Ability to engage oneself and colleagues as a reflective practitioner who accurately identifies strengths and needs for growth in practice.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work with a wide range of partners (e.g. colleagues, students, parents), with an attention to detail
• Ability to be a liaison for students, connecting them with various support services
• Ability to integrate into a community of teaching and learning experts.
• Ability to conduct oneself as a person of integrity, ethical conduct, service to and advocacy for the changing needs of young people and their families.
• Ability to provide coaching support throughout the student life cycle.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, propose solutions, and implement plans of action