One of fifteen jobs former educators actually hold
Out of your own classroom, still in the district, supporting other teachers in theirs.
Co-planning, modeling lessons, observing and debriefing, and running PD for your school or district. You hold a roster of teachers rather than a roster of students, and the work is slow, relational, and cumulative across a year.
You stay on the school calendar and the school salary schedule, and in most districts the coaching position is among the first cut when the budget tightens. It is also the least clean break, so if what you needed was out of education, this will not give you that.
District salary schedule, sometimes with a stipend.
Pick your starting point.
All of your teaching craft stays relevant and current, which is not true of any other option here. You keep the part most people miss and shed the part most people are leaving.
An internal move. Usually requires strong classroom results and often a coaching endorsement or masters, depending on your state.
You may already hold this job. If you are a coach now, nothing transfers because you are there. If you are an assistant principal or dean, the move is lateral and the real change is losing evaluative authority: teachers who currently comply with you would have to choose to work with you instead.
An internal transfer, usually posted in spring. If you are already coaching, the question is whether coaching was the destination or a holding pattern. If you are in administration, expect a pay cut where your district pays an administrative stipend, and expect staff to keep treating you as an evaluator for a year.
Everything transfers, because instructional coaching is inside the system you just left. You know the curriculum, the evaluation instrument, the coaching cycle, and the building politics. If you supervised coaches from the central office, you have already designed the program a coach now delivers.
Easy to get and a move down. Instructional coach sits below a director or coordinator in scope, pay band, and placement on the salary schedule, and you would report to someone who used to be your peer. People take the role to get out of central office politics or to get back near classrooms. Name that reason before applying.
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