Transcend

Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer, Coach

Transcend

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • United States

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About the role

  • 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)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PBL designinstructional designclassroom systemsscaffoldingformative feedbackrubricscoachingfacilitating workshopsdata synthesiscurriculum alignment
Soft Skills
communicationrelationship-buildingorganizational skillsleadershipmethodical approachfollow-throughproblem-solvingcollaborationcoachingcommitment to equity