EXPOSED
The document half of this job — writing curriculum maps, aligning units to state standards, building pacing guides, drafting PD slide decks, summarizing benchmark assessment data — is exactly what language models already do at usable quality, and publishers are shipping AI-generated standards-aligned materials directly to districts. What survives is the human half: sitting in a third-grade classroom watching a struggling teacher, running the follow-up coaching conversation, and owning the recommendation when a district spends $2M on a new reading program. Most coordinators hold a teaching license and many need an administrator credential, but no law requires a human signature on a curriculum document, so the credential is a hiring filter rather than a liability shield.
Mixed — a routine tier and a judgment tier. Crosswalking a unit to state standards, rewriting pacing guides after a calendar change, and producing the benchmark data slides for the November leadership meeting are text-transformation jobs a model does in minutes, which drags this to 8 despite the classroom observation cycles and PD facilitation that still need a body in the room.
Some physical or field component. You are in buildings — walking classrooms during observation windows, hauling materials to PD sessions, sitting at the back of a third-grade guided reading group — but it is a school, not a roof or a rig, so the physical component is scheduling and presence rather than anything a machine physically cannot do, which puts it at 7 not 13.
Certification preferred, not legally required. A teaching license plus an administrator or curriculum-supervisor endorsement is standard in most states for the district-level posting, and that credentialing floor is why this is 6 rather than 2 — but no statute requires a licensed human to sign a curriculum map or adoption recommendation, so nobody's certificate is at risk when the program flops.
Some relationship component. Teachers let you into their rooms and tell you what is actually failing only because you built that over two years, and principals call you before they call the vendor — but you are also the person who arrives with the mandate from central office, so the relationship is real leverage without being the deliverable, hence 11.
Meaningful discretion. Recommending the $2M reading adoption and deciding which teacher needs support versus documentation are genuinely consequential calls, but they run through adoption committees, board votes, and the assistant superintendent who actually signs, so you own the analysis rather than the decision — 10, not 15.
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