Literacy Specialist & ELD Teacher

New Legacy Charter School; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

New Legacy Charter School seeks a Literacy Specialist focused on improving reading skills among high school students and teaching English Language Learners. The role involves developing and executing a comprehensive literacy plan, providing professional development for staff, and engaging directly with students in various literacy activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in literacy instruction, urban education, and be passionate about empowering young families through education.

Qualifications

• Background in literacy or reading instruction required.
• Experience with English Language Learners in a classroom setting.
• Two or more years in an urban school preferred.

Responsibilities

• Help students develop proficient reading skills.
• Teach ELD classes and incorporate literacy across content areas.
• Lead staff professional development on evidence-based literacy practices.

Skills

Literacy instruction

Working with English Language Learners

Collaboration

Culturally responsive practices

Data analysis

Education

Colorado teaching credential

Tools

Infinite Campus

Job description

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New Legacy Charter School is a free, public school for pregnant and parenting high school students and their children in northwest Aurora. We are located at 2091 N. Dayton Street, Aurora, CO 80010 and serve approximately 95 high school students and 65 children in an on-site early learning center. The school is authorized by the Colorado Charter School Institute and opened in August of 2015, with our first class graduating in June 2016.

We offer students a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education so they are empowered with the skills needed to raise healthy children and graduate prepared for success in college and careers. Our vision is to see young families creating a legacy of education leading to compelling careers, financial independence, and positive parenting. Our school model includes combining flexibility with a strong school culture based on healthy relationships and student leadership.

General Position Description

The primary function of the Literacy Specialist is to help students develop proficient reading skills that will contribute to their academic growth, to incorporate literacy instruction across all content areas, and develop a comprehensive literacy plan for NLCS.

This position includes teaching ELD, and may add Literacy class(es) for targeted interventions over the course of the grant. Many high school teachers also serve as advisors, who are responsible for ensuring that students are well-known and supported in reaching their goals. This position may add an advisory component in the future, but currently the focus is on starting a literary program and teaching English Language Learners.

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• Background working in Literacy or Reading instruction
• Background working with English Language Learners in a classroom setting
• Background working with pregnant and/or parenting teens
• Background working in an urban middle or high school
• Colorado license or equivalent teaching credential from other state required
• Bilingual with Spanish ability to read, write and communicate preferred but not required
• EMPLOYMENT STATUS:

This is a full-time, exempt, at-will position. The Literacy Specialist/ELD Teacher reports directly to the High School Principal.

III. JOB GOALS:

Literacy Specialist:

• Review schoolwide data to determine professional development priorities for staff
• Lead staff professional development to introduce and incorporate evidence-based literacy practices schoolwide
• Review student data to determine push-in/pull-out support based on student schedules
• Work extensively with students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, fluency, and comprehension strategies
• Work with teachers to design methods of learning that are most appropriate for each child and across different content areas
• Understand and help design effective strategies for intervention and differentiation in the classroom, including serving English language learners and students with individualized education plans (IEPs) to increase their literacy
• Develop a comprehensive literacy plan with short and long-term schoolwide goals
• Establish a literacy team to give input on the literacy plan
• Possibly co-teach section(s) with Humanities teacher

ELD Teacher:

• To connect with and support English Language Learners
• Teaching ELD class(es)
• Deliver culturally responsive daily lessons that are engaging, relevant, and rigorous
• Push-in/Pull-out support in other classes
• WIDA Screening and scoring
• To support high school staff with scaffolding lesson plans by meeting to review lesson plans once per month to utilize strategies that support ELL students
• Provide Professional Development four times per year to review effective strategies for English Language Learners
• Testing, data, and compliance for ELD students
• Data collection and review of EL levels, redesignation, etc.
• Updating Infinite Campus (or other SIS) with data and results
• Annual communication with parent/guardian regarding screening, test results and designation
• Lead staff professional development (quarterly) to review students on your caseload, necessary data, and new findings that will support the staff in the classroom
• Meet with other teachers as needed to discuss students on your caseload to gather data and feedback for your notes

IV. OTHER EXPECTATIONS:

• Have at least one or two years of experience successfully working in an urban or alternative school, including a track record of positive student outcomes.
• Have experience using culturally responsive and restorative practices to build culture and community in an urban school environment.
• Be a highly collaborative, results-oriented, adaptable, problem-solving self-starter.
• Embrace using data to inform instructional planning and practice. Comfortable using Microsoft Excel/GoogleSheets, sharing and analyzing student performance results, and humility in constantly working to improve practices.
• Experience working in an entrepreneurial, dynamic school or demanding environment.
• Work to support school-wide attendance initiatives and provide attendance case management for specific students.
• Participate actively in school-wide community-building rituals such as morning check-in, community meetings, community lunches, student circles, and staff circles.
• Be positive, strength-based, passionate, articulate, motivating, and empowering with students and team members.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be computer savvy, with proficiency in email, word processing, spreadsheets, Google Docs, etc.
• Ideally have experience using Infinite Campus.
• Performing additional duties as assigned. This may include, but is not limited to, lunch duty, supervision of students, subbing for class coverage, participation in after-school activities, and leadership conferences/trainings
• Build and utilize relationships with student guardians and staff members when supporting student behavior interventions

V. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Tasks will require frequent sitting, standing or walking, and may include extended periods of time sitting at a keyboard or standing in a classroom or business setting.
• Tasks require dexterity in the use of fingers, limbs, or body in the operation of all equipment related to nurse aide skills or office equipment.
• Tasks may require participation in virtual meetings, interviews, or conferences for extended periods of time.
• Tasks will require driving a personal vehicle to community events, business meetings, stores (for purchasing items), or evaluating concurrent enrollment programs and students in outside programs.
• Tasks will require driving school vehicles with students.
• Tasks may require occasional overnight travel for conferences or visiting other schools in the network for professional development.

VI. MISSION ALIGNMENT:

Mission-aligned members of the New Legacy community:

• Dedicate themselves to the school’s mission and vision, adopting a “whatever-it-takes” attitude in helping our students succeed.
• Understand that relationships are essential to working with students who have been disengaged from their education and are at-risk of dropping out of school. Staff members pursue appropriate and healthy relationships with students, including advocating for them and their success.
• Believe our students have strengths and assets, and build on these strengths in their work. Maintain a positive attitude and a solution-based approach to challenges in the workplace.
• Oversee open and consistent communication with students and their families about their academic progress, health success and needs, parenting success and needs, individual graduation plans, and college planning. Also communicate proactively with colleagues about student needs to ensure integrated support.
• Are committed to restorative justice as a means of addressing conflicts or challenges in the community, whether between students, staff members, or students and staff members.
• Are committed to inclusive excellence. This means they are willing to engage in conversations about privilege, power, equity, and diversity, and are willing to invest time in community-building and professional development based on inclusive excellence.
• Are active participants in a supportive and demanding professional community that fosters respect, trust, honesty, risk-taking, open-mindedness, flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

VII. APPLICATION PROCESS:

To apply for the position of Literacy Specialist and ELD Teacher, submit a cover letter and

resume (with references) to Sara Kahn. Salary range is $65,000-$71,000 with benefits (health,

dental, vision, retirement and paid time off).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

  Primary and Secondary Education

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