Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer, Coach

Role Overview

• Design rigorous, agency-building PBL units, modules, and lessons aligned to standards and organizational frameworks.
• Create scaffolds, routines, protocols, and templates that support gradual release and predictable, orderly classrooms.
• Integrate research-based practices (productive struggle, discourse, formative feedback) into daily instruction.
• Produce exemplars, rubrics, and playbooks that make instructional intent and operational steps clear.
• Codify teacher moves, classroom systems, and workflows that reliably promote student agency and independence.
• Document instructional models in user-friendly guides and frameworks.
• Synthesize classroom observations and data into actionable next steps for teachers.
• Coach teachers in building structures that enable student ownership and responsible release of responsibility.
• Facilitate planning cycles, workshops, and modeling sessions that blend design, routines practice, and problem-solving.
• Partner with school leaders on pacing, implementation plans, and coherent schoolwide systems.
• Recruit partner schools and educators interested in adopting LEAD/RevX practices.
• Manage social media posts, outreach materials, and communications that generate interest and inquiries.
• Coordinate initial conversations, needs assessments, and onboarding processes.
• Plan, schedule, and lead site visits, walkthroughs, and observation days at LEAD.
• Design and facilitate PD sessions, virtual workshops, and follow-up coaching for adopting sites.
• Ensure partners receive resources, materials, playbooks, and aligned curriculum in a timely manner.
• Maintain consistent communication with each site about progress, needs, and next steps.
• Monitor implementation through walkthroughs, check-ins, and review of artifacts.
• Provide clear feedback loops and coordinate additional support when sites need deeper coaching or resources.
• Track progress, document successes and challenges, and communicate updates internally.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse set of external partners including school leaders, superintendents, policymakers, community organizations, and education networks.
• Represent the project in meetings, site visits, and public-facing conversations with stakeholders across the New York City education ecosystem.
• Communicate progress, insights, and key updates to partners in ways that build alignment, trust, and continued investment.

Requirements

• 3–7+ years PBL design or implementation experience in elementary/middle grades.
• Preference for strong science and math expertise and leadership experience.
• Proven ability to design for others: materials, routines, scaffolds, and systems.
• Strong skill in codifying classroom practice into clear, replicable models.
• Experience recruiting, coordinating, or supporting partner schools or programs.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Highly organized, methodical, and consistent follow-through.
• Experience leading PD, coaching teachers, and facilitating groups.
• Commitment to equitable, real-world learning that builds student agency and independence.

Benefits

• Contract (Possibility for Full
• time)