Literacy Coach for Grades K-2

Description

GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into post-secondary immersion as early as 9th grade. GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.

ABOUT US: 21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world. We are a TAP school!

REPORTS TO/TERM:

Principal and Administrative Team

This is a 10-month position.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Literacy Coach will increase the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning in grades K-2. The Literacy Coach will co-plan with individual teachers and teams, model lessons, and engage in co-teaching cycles. The Literacy Coach will partner with the school principal, leveraging local data to plan and provide professional development related to the science of reading and assist in implementing evidence-based literacy practices aligned with science of reading research to meet the needs of all students.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Participate in all professional development provided by the Department of Education (IDOE) and Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning (CELL), including:

• Week-long summer training, Collaboration Network (CN) sessions - synchronous or asynchronous, twice a month from August-May, and other professional development and training provided by the Literacy Cadre.
• Collaborate with educators in grades Kindergarten through 2nd grade to:

1. expand educator’s knowledge of the science of reading research,
2. implement professional development on high-quality instructional practices aligned with science of reading research,
3. assist in instructional planning with individuals and groups of teachers,
4. conduct mini and full coaching cycles that target student outcomes,
5. provide training on the use of formative assessment data to drive classroom instruction based on science of reading research, and ensure that student achievement and growth data is routinely collected, reported, and used to drive instructional decisions at the school and classroom levels.

• Collaborate with school leaders and stakeholders to:

1. Model continuous learning, maintain current progress, and serve as a thoughtful leader for student literacy in the school, and partner with cadre leadership related to the goals of the Indiana Literacy Cadre and Indiana’s Initiative for Early Literacy
2. Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with students, educators, administrators, and other cadre personnel.
3. Engage in continuous growth and development in learning in the field of early literacy and coaching pedagogy and practice.
4. Read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, articles, and texts.
5. Provide professional development to staff based on learning at Collaboration Network
6. sessions.
7. Effectively present information and respond to questions from different stakeholder
8. groups
9. Solve practical problems and offer solutions that align with early literacy instructional practices.
10. Maintain current school-level data and anecdotal records on coaching cycles and work
11. with teachers and administrators.
12. Assist in gathering survey data and local assessment data as required by the IDOE.

• Create and maintain a shared coaching calendar, making the calendar accessible to teachers and administrators as well as the cadre leadership team.
• Perform duties in compliance and accordance with all IDOE requirements, district requirements, and Board of Trustees policies.

Requirements

REQUIRED CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of three years’ teaching experience, five years preferred
• Current Indiana Professional Educator’s License