Our Division & Communities

Foothills School Division (FSD) serves the learning needs of approximately 8000 students from preschool to grade 12. We operate 22 public schools, an online digital school, an alternative campus, and three colony schools. These are located in the towns of Okotoks, High River, and Diamond Valley, and the communities of Blackie, Cayley, Heritage Heights, Red Deer Lake, Longview, Millarville and Foothills County.

We honour the spirit, life, and lessons this land and its ancestors teach us. We acknowledge the traditional land and territories of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina, and Îyârhe Nakoda as well as the Foothills District and the Rocky View District within the Battle River Territory of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of Alberta.

Applicant Eligibility

We welcome all eligible applicants to apply.

Learning Coach Role

Learning coaches are teachers who are knowledgeable about inclusive education and are skilled at facilitating teacher collaboration, strengthening inclusive learning, building capacity and expertise in design, instruction and assessment practices of teachers in support of all learners. A more comprehensive understanding of the roles and responsibilities will be provided during the recruitment process.

The focus of this position is in creating and supporting the development of the Elevate Support Classroom at Westmount School for the 2025-26 school year. The goal of this support classroom setting is to ensure medically complex students thrive academically, socially and emotionally by integrating medical care, therapeutic supports and academics into their daily school experience. The role of the Elevate Learning Coach is as the coordinator of services and supports within the school setting, which will include an LPN and an Educational Assistant specific to this support classroom

Experience in the following areas would be considered an asset:

• understanding complex medical diagnosis
• working with a team including the family, medical professionals as well as the Westmount teaching staff
• developing and implementing medical plans, ILPs and emergency response protocols, as well as coordinating therapeutic supports as determined by the medical professionals

The Candidate

As a member of a highly motivated team and student-centered educator, you are prepared to collaborate with colleagues in a Professional Learning Community. Your teaching practice includes the ability to design and plan learning activities that transfer, and develop thinking competencies. Further, your practice assesses individual student variables to inform the design of meaningful and experiential learning opportunities and effective assessment practice.

Your ability to foster effective professional relationships with student, families, staff and community is critical. You demonstrate a willingness to engage in extra-curricular activities and support students in the whole school experience that characterizes effective schools.

If you are a dynamic, research-based educator passionately committed to explore, develop and celebrate each learner entrusted to your care, we invite you to apply.

We appreciate and consider all applications, but only those applicants

selected for further consideration will be contacted.