Contract Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer & Coach

Transcend Education is seeking a Contract Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer & Coach with extensive experience in project-based learning for elementary through high school. The role involves designing rigorous learning experiences, coaching teachers, and supporting school leaders in implementing effective educational practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Work closely with internal teams (design, coaching, leadership) to ensure adopting sites receive coherent, high-quality support
• Gather feedback from adopting sites to inform refinements to curriculum, systems, and playbooks
• Support organizational scaling efforts through storytelling, data collection, and partner-facing communication

Requirements:

• 3–7+ years PBL design or implementation experience in elementary/middle grades
• Preference for strong science and math expertise
• 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