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The Literacy Interventionist supports the school and students to align with the school community's mission to teach students to be bilingual and bi-literate in Spanish and English, thus ensuring students develop the skills and dispositions necessary for 21st-century success. The literacy intervention services will build students' phonics, spelling, and reading comprehension capacity. The interventionist will provide and track the progress of targeted Tier 2 literacy intervention to accelerate the learning for designated groups of students.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe full-time Literacy Interventionist is responsible for the fulfillment of the essential duties set forth below:
1. Deliver Literacy Intervention to Whole Groups, Targeted Small Groups of Students, and 1:1
- Create, plan, and deliver interactive, engaging lessons to whole groups (15-25 students), small groups, and 1:1 throughout the week using the ELA curriculum
- Develop and deliver instruction using culturally and linguistically responsive strategies to create an engaging learning environment
- Ensure activities and instruction are equally effective for students across all ethnicities, language backgrounds, and genders
- Provide push-in support as needed to ensure alignment with classroom instruction
2. Administer, Analyze and Document Progress Data for Identified Students
- In collaboration with school-day teachers and Instructional Coach, analyze student work, in particular milestone tasks, to monitor needs and successes
- Use class and school assessment data to identify academic areas of strength and needed growth or support to devise plans for action for each individual student
- Participate in Grade Level Team,, Coordinated Care Team, and IEP meetings as appropriate
3. Professional Growth and Development
- Actively collaborate with school-based Instructional Coach and classroom teachers, especially around student academic progress
- Seek guidance and collaborate with site administrative team, Instructional Leadership Team, and Coordinated Care Team
- Present student updates and collaborate with teachers to determine strategies appropriate for the specific needs of selected students
- Attend faculty meetings and participate in school-sponsored and identified district-level professional development activities
Desired Quallification
- Strong literacy intervention background
- At least two years of classroom teaching experience with demonstrated effectiveness in the subject matter, use of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment
- Professional record of enriching students’ academics through highly engaging and effective instruction
- Experience in teacher leadership role preferred (e.g., team leader, grade level chairperson, instructional coach)
- Experience in working with diverse student populations; familiarity with providing effective accommodations or designing lessons that incorporate Universal Design for Learning principles
- Cultural and linguistic competence, both in relating to diverse students and families
- Expertise in serving English learners and students with special needs
- Facility with technology or other new media that will contribute to schools’ effective organization
- Propensity for fostering a school culture of high expectations and confidence in student success
$28 - $32 an hour
Mission Graduates Is an Equal Opportunity EmployerMission Graduates provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, termination, leaves of absence, training, and compensation, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, uniformed service member/veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, medical condition or disability, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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