Contract Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer & Coach

🌍 Remote, USA 💹 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Contract Project-Based Learning Instructional Designer & Coach(Elementary through High School)
This is a Part-time Contract role (With The Possibility for Full-time)
This role is New York-based; you'll work remotely from home but will have regular travel to school sites a couple of times a week.
About the Role

We are seeking an Instructional Designer & Coach with deep experience in project-based learning across elementary through high school settings. This person translates vision into clear, operational classroom practice-designing learning that builds student agency while maintaining strong routines, systems, and structures. The ideal candidate is methodical, detail-oriented, and a consistent communicator who can support teachers in delivering high-quality, scaffolded PBL experiences that work in real classrooms.
Key Responsibilities
At the Demonstration Site

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.
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.
You believe routines and systems create the foundation for student freedom.
You are detail-driven and methodical, and you also value creativity and inquiry.
You naturally help teachers shift from control to facilitation.
You communicate clearly, reliably, and proactively.
You thrive in turning big ideas into concrete classroom practice.
You can navigate complexity, ambiguity, and diverse partner needs with calm and clarity.
Step 1: Submit your resume plus two work samples: one professional development artifact and one curriculum or project design.
Step 2: Participate in an interview that includes analysis and critique of instructional materials.
Step 3: Visit the school site and engage in a live walkthrough, including opportunities to provide feedback and model for teachers.