Instruction Partners

• Support instructional improvement with our school system partners • Work closely with internal leaders to execute professional development, diagnose and progress monitor instruction • Build and coach capacity in instructional leaders • Provide content and curricular expertise throughout the country in grades K-12 • Collaborate with system and school leaders to analyze and monitor instruction and leadership practices • Design and deliver curriculum-specific professional learning for teachers and school leaders • Evaluate the effectiveness of professional learning through observation, feedback, and outcomes data

• The Communications Lead is a versatile, execution-focused communications professional who supports and extends the work of the Director of Communications. • Writing and Editorial Support: Revises, edits, and proofreads a range of communications and materials for external releases (e.g., playbooks, toolkits, white papers). • In close coordination with the content marketing team, writes supporting content (e.g., blog posts, landing page copy) for major and minor publications. • Ghostwrites for and cowrites with subject matter experts across the organization, ensuring consistency with Instruction Partners' voice and editorial standards (e.g., blogs, conference materials, major and minor publications). • Supports the development of the CEO's external communications. • Supports with research as needed. • Develops and routinely revises materials to support strategic team communications (e.g., citation guidelines, quick reference style guide). • Major Initiative Support: Supports the Director in producing content for the AI Learning Tour and other major initiatives (e.g., blogs, recaps, supporting collateral, video scripts). • In partnership with the Marketing and Communications team, assists with story and key messages development for organizational learning initiatives. • Manages logistics and coordination for communications-related components of major initiatives. • PR and Earned Media Support: Supports the Director in executing PR and earned media activity—including drafting pitches, maintaining media lists, tracking coverage, and coordinating logistics for media appearances. • Maintains the marketing news library in partnership with the Director, monitoring education news, policy, and trends while flagging relevant stories for the Marketing and Communications team and broader organization. • Operations and Coordination: Maintains the thought leadership editorial calendar and tracks progress against publication timelines. • Coordinates the cross-functional editorial and campaigns sync between the communications and content marketing teams. • Manages relationships with external contributors and subject matter experts for editorial projects.

• Leads the design of new professional learning sessions, tools, and frameworks for assigned schools and workstreams while ensuring tight alignment with broader organizational systems and priorities • Uses strong judgment and stakeholder input to plan and prioritize critical implementation steps when faced with competing tasks or incomplete information • Anticipates change, adjusts strategies proactively, and addresses misalignment across curriculum, leadership, and professional learning within the assigned scope • Facilitates high-quality professional learning and coaching in assigned schools to ensure educators understand and can effectively apply new practices • Monitors the fidelity of implementation using data and provides targeted guidance to facilitators to maintain quality, accountability, and sustained impact • Makes strategic adjustments to session delivery or coaching approaches when challenges arise, escalating complex issues that require decisions beyond the assigned schools • Navigates ambiguity and unexpected district constraints skillfully to keep sessions and coaching on track • Builds systems that promote open reflection, risk-taking, and continuous learning within school-based teams • Collects and analyzes feedback from assigned schools to inform ongoing improvements in session design, tools, and facilitation frameworks • Tests and refines prototyped professional learning tools and sessions within assigned schools to improve educator uptake and strengthen scale readiness • Synthesizes patterns and recurring instructional challenges to guide decision-making and influence broader organizational design priorities • Tracks educator and leader progress toward annual implementation milestones by proactively monitoring progress with data • Evaluates evidence from teacher practice and student learning to make targeted adjustments to sessions, coaching, and supports • Reports implementation progress, instructional challenges, and early indicators of student learning improvements to senior leadership and key stakeholders • Coaches facilitators and school-based leaders to implement professional learning frameworks with fidelity, confidence, and independence • Establishes strong feedback loops, collaborative processes, and routines to strengthen team effectiveness and continuous learning • Embeds coaching into leadership routines and shares effective practices to strengthen implementation capacity across all assigned schools • Communicates session goals, progress, and strategic adjustments with absolute clarity to align colleagues, school staff, and district partners • Anticipates points of confusion or misalignment within workstreams and schools, addressing them proactively through strong messaging • Consistently embodies organizational core values across all interactions, holding self and others accountable to professional standards

• Manages complex scheduling and calendar logistics with a high degree of autonomy, independently evaluating issues, anticipating challenges, and driving solutions to maximize the CEO's time efficiency • Develops, tracks, and manages discrete project plans in Asana to keep executive office operations, travel, and personal commitments strictly aligned • Coordinates travel arrangements and itineraries, adapting existing tools and frameworks to better fit the shifting needs of the executive office • Tracks and reminds the CEO of key team celebrations and organizational milestones, managing the timeline to ensure timely celebration and recognition • Develops and maintains strong relationships with the development team, collaborating across functions to align on routines and ensure the seamless completion of grant and funding deliverables • Drafts high-level professional communications and manages executive social media channels, adapting communication styles to context and purpose across diverse audiences • Manages expense reporting workflows, proactively identifying workflow efficiencies, following up with vendors, and leading the end-to-end reconciliation process • Provides informal guidance, feedback, and operational expertise to other administrative or support team members to improve organization-wide administrative workflows • Manages and executes virtual and in-person board meeting logistics with full ownership, driving progress toward deadlines and ensuring all outcomes are delivered on time • Communicates clearly across diverse audiences, preparing and delivering critical logistical and committee requirements to senior leadership • Attends formal meetings to capture accurate minutes and evaluates existing digital filing systems to maintain high-quality, easily accessible records • Manages onboarding projects and tracks recruitment steps for new board members, adapting existing templates and resources based on predefined guidelines • Updates and refines annual board collateral, recruitment overviews, and demographic reporting frameworks to accurately support grant and compliance requirements • Manages and executes the annual and ongoing collection of conflict of interest surveys, taking full ownership of the timeline, tracking system, and data integrity • Embodies organizational values in all daily interactions with the governing board, actively fostering trust, collaboration, and professional relationship management • Independently resolves complex travel-related logistics and unexpected challenges for site visits and educational tours • Directs advisory council meeting logistics by actively evaluating and anticipating stakeholder needs to foster deep external relationships • Provides specialized administrative expertise to serve as a resource for others, evaluating the effectiveness of follow-up processes and implementing improvements

• Provides strategic leadership for the organization’s custom consulting function • Drives the design, delivery, and growth of services that help partners address complex instructional challenges • Manages a team of senior leaders and oversees a portfolio of high-impact consulting engagements • Translates organizational strategy into actionable workflows for the team • Codifies emerging best practices into scalable service models • Ensures custom consulting work advances both partner outcomes and the organization’s broader learning agenda • Owns custom consulting business development with accountability for an annual revenue target • Cultivates and sustains high-trust relationships with current and prospective partner senior leaders

• Lead elementary reading initiatives with district and school leaders • Build data-informed plans for the improvement of elementary reading • Strengthen leaders’ instructional and change management skills • Partner with internal and external colleagues for program implementation • Support schools in building and maintaining a strong elementary reading system • Conduct structured school walkthroughs to observe and assess classroom instruction • Manage partner contracts and deliverables

• Leads the design and execution of annual school visits to observe technology-supported instruction • Develops observation protocols and interview tools • Facilitates structured interviews with stakeholders to yield comparable insights • Conducts in-depth technical interviews with product teams • Analyzes product impact data by reviewing internal and third-party research • Manages ethical data use and consent processes • Authors product specific essays and briefs translating findings into instructional implications • Maintains a centralized evidence database to support organizational strategy • Represents findings in conversations with state leaders and funders

• Design and drive research architecture and rapid cycle learning systems • Define enterprise strategy for the implementation framework • Shape organization-wide narrative regarding effective implementation • Lead district and product developer partnerships focused on solution implementation • Leads and develops a team of Senior Directors/Associate Director pairs

• Manages a portfolio of district implementations of AI-powered solutions, with deep attention to instructional quality and outcomes for students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities • Serves as the primary relationship holder for assigned partner systems and product developer partners, building high-trust relationships that enable honest learning • Tracks the implementation and integration of solutions in assigned districts, monitoring usage, fidelity to High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)-aligned teaching, and emerging signals of impact and unintended consequences • Monitors the enabling conditions through leadership, coaching, scheduling, and infrastructure that determine whether implementation actually changes teacher practice • Engages with product developers to understand product intent, surface implementation realities and feed insight back into product development • Designs the systems that make implementation visible: monitoring dashboards, observation protocols, enabling-conditions trackers, and review cadences • Designs and delivers resources that build district and school leader capacity around effective implementation of AI-powered tools alongside HQIM cores • Co-designs launch experiences with product developer and district partners to include kickoff agendas, professional learning sequences, monthly check-in plans that set the partnership up for ongoing learning • Surfaces opportunities where internal facing products could scale or support service delivery, partnering with the Executive Director to determine how and when to scale • Iterates on implementation systems and resources based on what the partnerships are surfacing, in collaboration with peer Senior Directors • Acts as the owner of specific learning priorities within the function, contributing to the broader learning agenda the Executive Director shapes • Codifies what's emerging from partnerships into resources, frameworks, and field-facing artifacts that contribute to the field's understanding of effective AI-powered solution implementation • Collaborates with colleagues to align implementation resources across products and to surface cross-cutting insights • Coaches and develops staff, treating development as partnership rather than oversight • Models organizational values and contributes to a culture of accountability and psychological safety

• Serve as the primary partner to the President and executive leaders for internal strategy • Architect internal structures and performance outcome routines that integrate people and technology • Lead the internal artificial intelligence transition to improve staff productivity and staff experience • Direct high-stakes leadership rhythms to maintain organizational agility and alignment • Evaluate complex, cross-functional challenges with a systems lens to balance risk and opportunity