Leading Educators
Texas Candidate Pool Now Open Design and Coaching Specialist
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Hybrid - Texas, TX
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Full-Time
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$100K - $128K
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Other
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March 6th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Leading Educators is hiring a Design and Coaching Specialist to support Texas school systems through the LIFT initiative by coaching educators and designing professional learning that improves instructional leadership and teaching practice. The role involves direct coaching, facilitating professional learning, analyzing data, and supporting curriculum adoption to ensure strong instructional outcomes and sustainable implementation.
Highlights
- Provide direct coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, school leaders, and instructional leadership teams.
- Conduct classroom observations and deliver actionable, curriculum-specific feedback.
- Model lessons and instructional strategies when required.
- Design and facilitate professional learning sessions, including PLCs and instructional planning conversations.
- Support analysis of student work, instructional data, and assessment results to inform coaching.
- Build campus capacity to sustain high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) implementation beyond grant periods.
- Require seven or more years of professional education experience including teaching and/or instructional leadership.
- Experience specifically with Bluebonnet curriculum and familiarity with LIFT and/or LASO initiatives preferred.
- Strong skills in relationship building, coaching, and instructional credibility.
- Compensation range: $100,320 to $127,680 base salary, with typical starting salary around $114,000, including medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
Texas Candidate Pool Now Open Design and Coaching Specialist Full Description
Texas Candidate Pool Now Open Design and Coaching Specialist
Texas, United States
Texas Candidate Pool Now Open
Design and Coaching Specialist
LIFT Initiative
Design and Coaching Specialist
LIFT Initiative
Leading Educators is building a Texas based candidate pool in anticipation of upcoming partnerships with school systems across the state through LIFT, a statewide initiative designed to strengthen instructional leadership, support high quality instructional materials, and build educator and leader capacity.
As an implementation partner for LIFT, Leading Educators supports districts and schools to successfully adopt and implement Bluebonnet curriculum, including:
- Bluebonnet Math K to 5
- Bluebonnet Secondary Math 6 to 8 and Algebra I
- Bluebonnet RLA K to 5
This is not an active job posting. We are proactively collecting resumes so we can move quickly as partnerships finalize and roles officially open.
About the Role
The Design and Coaching Specialist ensures that our programming makes a measurable impact on teacher practice and instructional leadership at the school level. This role blends intensive coaching with high quality professional learning design.
Key elements of the role may include:
- Providing direct coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, school leaders, and instructional leadership teams
- Conducting classroom observations and delivering actionable curriculum specific feedback
- Modeling lessons or instructional strategies when needed
- Facilitating unit internalization sessions, PLCs, and instructional planning conversations
- Designing curriculum aligned professional learning tools, sessions, and resources
- Supporting schools in analyzing student work, instructional data, and assessment results
- Aligning professional learning design to real time coaching insights
- Building campus capacity to sustain HQIM implementation beyond the grant period
- Supporting change management associated with curriculum adoption
This role ensures that school based support translates into stronger instructional practice and measurable student impact.
Who We Are Looking For
We are particularly interested in instructional leaders who bring:
- Seven or more years of professional experience in education, including teaching and or instructional leadership
- Demonstrated experience coaching teachers, teacher leaders, or school leaders
- Experience designing and facilitating professional learning aligned to curriculum and observable instructional practice
- Experience analyzing student work and classroom data to inform coaching decisions
- Deep experience implementing high quality instructional materials, especially Bluebonnet
- Prior experience with LIFT and or LASO initiatives
- Strong relationship building skills and instructional credibility
Location and Travel
Candidates must reside in Texas.
This role requires regular travel to partner districts and schools.
This role requires regular travel to partner districts and schools.
Priority regions include:
- Dallas Fort Worth
- Austin
- Houston
- San Antonio
- Rio Grande Valley
- El Paso
- Corpus Christi
- Permian Basin
Compensation If Roles Open
Base salary range: 100,320 to 127,680
Typical starting salary: approximately 114,000
Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, and generous paid time off.
Typical starting salary: approximately 114,000
Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, and generous paid time off.
What Happens After You Submit Your Resume
As part of this proactive pipeline, we will review resumes while we work to secure new partnerships. If your experience aligns with what we are seeking, we will reach out to let you know you are a strong potential match. Once roles officially open, we will proactively contact candidates from this pool to begin the interview process.
If you are passionate about strengthening instruction through coaching and professional learning design, we encourage you to submit your resume for future consideration.
Internal staff: No action required. This pipeline is intended for external candidates only.
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