SY 26-27 Instructional Coach (Grades PreK3-5)

Job Title: Instructional Coach (Grades PreK3-5th)

Department: Education

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Reports to: Executive Director

Compensation: $87,000 - $91,350/year

Company Overview: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School is a leader in Chinese Immersion education, achieving high levels of academic and organizational success. Our diverse and inclusive community reaches far beyond the walls of our building. At Yu Ying teachers, staff and families are collaborators, who together, are raising the next generation of culturally fluent and well-rounded global citizens.

Position Overview: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School is seeking an experienced, systems-minded Instructional Coach to strengthen instructional delivery across PK3-5 at both the Elementary Campus (EC) and Early Years Campus (EYC). This role focuses on how instruction is carried out in classrooms, through observation, feedback, practice, and side-by-side coaching, rather than curriculum development.

The Instructional Coach manages a limited coaching caseload (3–6 teachers per cycle) while also designing and codifying a schoolwide coaching system that builds the capacity of Executive Leadership Team members and teacher leaders to coach effectively and consistently across two campuses, eight grade levels, and two languages.

For SY26–27, the primary instructional content focus will be Mathematics, with flexibility to coach across all subject areas.

You will drive Yu Ying’s mission, vision and team’s success by:

• Strengthening instructional delivery across EC and EYC through high-quality coaching.


• Supporting teachers in executing IB-aligned, transdisciplinary instruction.


• Building a consistent, evidence-based coaching system used across the school.


• Improving instructional practice across two languages and eight grade levels.

Key Responsibilities

1. Direct Instructional Coaching

• Coach a caseload of 3-6 teachers per cycle across EC and EYC.


• Conduct classroom observations, feedback conferences, modeling, and side-by-side instructional support.


• Provide clear, actionable, evidence-based feedback grounded in teacher practice and student learning.


• Support teachers across all career stages, from novice to veteran educators.


• Focus coaching on instructional moves, teacher actions, and student engagement.

2. Math & Instructional Delivery (SY26–27 Focus)

• Lead coaching cycles with a focus on math instructional delivery, emphasizing:
  Conceptual understanding and student reasoning




• Mathematical discourse and responsive instruction




• Use content as the vehicle for improving instruction, not the end goal.


• Support math instruction within transdisciplinary units when appropriate.


• Maintain flexibility to coach across content areas based on school priorities.

3. IB-Aligned & Transdisciplinary Instruction

• Coach teachers to translate IB philosophy and transdisciplinary planning into daily classroom practice.


• Support instruction that reflects IB Approaches to Teaching, including inquiry, conceptual understanding, collaboration, and reflection.


• Emphasize execution: how lessons unfold, how students engage, and how learning is assessed in real time.


• Support instruction across two languages, with attention to language immersion and language acquisition.

4. Coaching Systems & Program Development

• Design and codify the Yu Ying Coaching System used by Executive Leadership Team members and teacher leaders.


• Develop and maintain a Coaching Playbook, including:




• Coaching rubrics and instructional look-fors


• Observation and feedback tools


• Coaching trackers and cycle templates


• FAQs and sample feedback language




• Ensure coaching practices are consistent, evidence-based, and aligned across campuses.

5. Collaboration & Alignment

• Work closely with PYP Directors at both campuses to ensure instructional delivery aligns with the planning and curriculum structures they own.


• Partner with EC & EYC Principals to identify instructional priorities and trends.


• Collaborate with the EYC Fellows Coach to align coaching practices and professional development.


• Serve as a bridge between instructional vision, planning, and classroom execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required


• Minimum of 5 years of teaching and/or instructional coaching experience


• Demonstrated success improving instructional practice through coaching


• Strong understanding of instructional delivery and adult learning


• Experience working across multiple grade levels


• Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in dual-language or immersion settings


• Knowledge of IB PYP and transdisciplinary instruction


• Math instructional expertise


• Mandarin language proficiency

Benefits Package:

Generous Paid Time Off

• 13 Personal/Sick Days


• 11 Federal Holidays


• Chinese New Year


• DC Emancipation Day

Insurance Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare coverage


• Dependent Coverage


• FSA/HSA Options


• 100% Company Covered Life Insurance Option


• Short & Long term Disability Insurance


• Fully covered Dental Coverage

Work-Life Balance Assistance

• Public Transit Assistance


• Staff Preference Enrollment in Yu Ying


• On-Site Daycare (Ages 3 months - 4 years old)


• Professional Development Opportunities


• Annual Extra Earning Opportunities/Monetary Rewards


• 3% 401K Match

Terms of Employment: 11 month schedule 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of the job and are not meant to be all-inclusive. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities of the job.

Unless reasonable accommodation can be made, while performing this job, the staff member shall:

• Use physical strength to lift, move, carry, pull, or push equipment and/or student(s).


• Sit, stand, walk, and run for required periods, according to the instruction schedule.


• Speak and hear.


• Use close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception along with the ability to focus vision.


• Communicate effectively in English, using proper grammar and vocabulary.


• Reach with hands and arms and use hands and fingers to handle objects and operate tools, computers, and/or controls. 

Environmental Demands

The environmental demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of the job and are not meant to be all-inclusive.

• Exposure to a variety of childhood and adult diseases and illnesses.


• Occasional exposure to a variety of weather conditions.


• Exposure to heated/air-conditioned and ventilated facilities.


• Exposure to a building in which a variety of chemical substances are used for cleaning, instruction, and/or operation of equipment.


• Function in a workplace with a high level of noise at times.

* Washington Yu Ying PCS reserves the right to change and update policies, procedures, protocols and this job description/agreement and any addenda as needed. Employees will be notified in a timely manner of such changes by email or in staff meetings and provided an updated copy of this job description/agreement.