Elementary ELA Coordinator

Kansas City Public Schools; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 67,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Dental Insurance

KCPS Pension plan

Voluntary retirement savings plans

Job summary

Kansas City Public Schools seeks an Elementary ELA Coordinator to promote high-quality literacy instruction and boost student achievement in grades K-5. The role focuses on data-informed decision making, staff support, and coordinating reading interventions aligned to district standards.

Responsibilities include modeling strategies, delivering professional development, and collaborating with building leaders to ensure effective literacy practices district-wide.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Elementary Education or equivalent
• Valid Reading Certification
• Minimum five years teaching experience
• Knowledge of literacy research and instruction

Responsibilities

• Assist in facilitating the district literacy program
• Provide data analysis and share findings with staff
• Support schools with placement in reading intervention
• Model literacy strategies using district resources
• Deliver professional development on literacy
• Assist teachers with ELA curriculum software and materials
• Plan literacy instruction aligned to district curriculum
• Attend PD to advance literacy pedagogy
• Document support provided to schools
• Collaborate with coordinators to analyze data and provide targeted support

Skills

Reading certification

Early literacy knowledge

5 areas of reading instruction

Reading inventories

Misce analysis

Guided reading

Professional Learning Communities

Missouri certification

Missouri Learning Standards

Five years teaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education

Master's preferred in Reading

Job description

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Job Description

Job Title: Elementary ELA Coordinator

Job Title Code: 01576

Salary Grade: S654 (Starting $73,970)

Department: Curriculum and Instruction

Reports To: Director of Elementary Curriculum

FLSA Status: Exempt

PURPOSE OF JOB: To promote, support, and maintain quality literacy instruction which results in an increase in student achievement and guarantees grade level readers by third grade. To build capacity and efficacy of teachers to internalize literacy instruction to make instructional decisions based on student data.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist in the facilitation of the district literacy program.
• Provide support to teachers and principals with the collection of data, analysis of data results and share findings with all staff and district leaders.
• Support schools in reviewing student achievement and assisting with placement of students in the appropriate reading and writing intervention and support services.
• Model targeted, research-based strategies with use of resources for teachers.
• Provide a variety of professional development presentations that includes job-embedded, co-teaching, and co-planning in the area of literacy.
• Assist teachers using software and materials related to English Language Arts curriculum.
• Meet regularly with the classroom teachers to plan literacy instruction that correlates district curriculum with individual student needs.
• Attend professional development to enhance knowledge of pedagogy and content, especially literacy.
• Maintain and submit documentation of support provided to schools.
• Analyze data and provide targeted support in collaboration with the English Language Arts Coordinator and Lead Literacy Interventionist.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities related to literacy as assigned by supervisor.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Elementary Education
• Reading Certification
• Minimum of five (5) years successful classroom teaching experience
• Knowledge of early literacy research.
• Knowledge of the 5 areas of reading instruction and how to explicitly teach each one.
• Knowledge of reading inventories and miscue analysis.
• Knowledge of guided reading.
• Knowledge of Professional Learning Communitie
• Eligible to receive a Missouri Certification
• Knowledge of Missouri Learning Standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in Reading
• Teaching experience in urban schools
• Experience in curriculum and assessment development

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Terms Of Employment

Length of work year: In person; 12Month; 7.5 hrs/day, 5 days/week

Benefits

Health and Dental Insurance are provided.

KCPS Defined Benefit Pension plan – mandatory 9% contribution is required from employee and matched by KCPS; Voluntary retirement savings plans are also available.