Multilingual Education Specialist (26-27)

KIPP • San Antonio, TX

10h • Onsite

About The Position

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.

The Multilingual Education Specialist plays a central role to support the school in fulfilling the KIPP Texas’ mission by directly impacting the academic and linguistic success of all Multilingual Learners. The Multilingual Education Specialist is a campus leader who supports the administration of the multilingual program, leading both instructional coaching on sheltered instruction pedagogy and monitoring compliance for all EBs on their campus.
The Multilingual Education Specialist leads professional development of teachers regarding English Language Development (ELD), linguistic accommodations, and instructional practices for emergent bilingual students The Multilingual Education Specialist also provides ESL instruction with small groups of newcomer/beginner students for 1-2 class periods per day.
The Multilingual Education Specialist also is responsible for communicating with parents of emergent bilingual students and planning Title III parent, family, and community events.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required) with required
• At least two years teaching Multilingual Learners (Content or Pull-Out ESL and/or Bilingual Program)
• At least two years of experience as an LPAC member
• Specialized training in Second Language Acquisition (Sheltered Instruction, SIOP, Biliteracy, Content-Based Language Instruction)
• Strong record of advancing multilingual students’ content and language skills
• Texas teacher license with an ESL or Bilingual Education endorsement
• Primary Schools - Texas teacher license with Bilingual Education endorsement or
• Secondary Schools - Texas teacher license with an English as a Second Language endorsement
• Unwavering commitment to the KIPP Texas mission, core values and willingness to go above and beyond to meet the needs of KIPP Texas students, families, and staff
• Strong project and time management skills; ability to effectively backwards plan, juggle multiple priorities with great attention to detail, and deliver consistent and timely results
• Experience with managing and entering data
• Sense of humility, customer service mindset, and shows urgency and the ability to proactively solve problems and make decisions quickly
• Ability to establish relationships and communicate effectively with
• Reliable transportation is needed for travel between campuses
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
• Work with frequent interruptions.

Responsibilities

• Use campus data to identify and prioritize courses and teachers to improve EB academic achievement
• Lead ML professional learning for teachers and school staff. This will come in the form of sheltered instruction coaching cycles, leading content team meetings, lesson internalizations, data meetings, and campus-wide professional development.
• Monitor progress of teachers' use of content-based language instruction strategies.
• Highlight best linguistic practices across grade levels.
• Enhance ML program hiring practices and support ESL paraprofessionals and Bilingual/ESL teacher retention
• Responsible for completing BOY, MOY, and EOY LPACs and related activities on time with fidelity and validity.
• Responsible for the planning and campus-wide execution of TELPAS and TELPAS ALT.
• Build strong relationships with all emergent bilingual (EB) students across the campus.
• Teach 1-2 English Language Development and Acquisition (ELDA) courses to newcomers, beginners, and intermediates.
• Monitor usage and growth on Summit K12 for all EBs on campus.
• Facilitate specific EB Title III events with parents, families and the community to foster welcoming school culture.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage options for employees and their families.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
• Paid family leave.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.
• Employee assistance programs.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees