Multilingual Specialist

Rocketship Public Schools•Milwaukee, WI

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About The Position

The Multilingual Specialist works to ensure that emerging bilingual students achieve their language, literacy, and learning goals. The role provides targeted small-group instruction informed by formative and summative data from the WIDA assessment suite, collaborates with teachers to increase student access during content learning, and monitors progress toward language goals. The position reports to an Assistant Principal. The specialist coordinates and administers WIDA assessments, analyzes student achievement and language proficiency data, maintains progress-monitoring tools, and develops action plans with school teams. The role also implements language-development curriculum, supports students’ Lexia English goals, contributes to teacher planning and professional development, reports student progress to families, and helps with student supervision.

Requirements

Commitment to Rocketship’s mission, vision, and goals.
Basic computer skills, including troubleshooting and communicating about technical difficulties.
Fluency in English.
Bachelor’s degree.
Wisconsin Elementary K–6 teaching credential or a full credential transferable from out of state.
English as a Second Language K–12 endorsement to serve as an ESL Specialist.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience managing and/or teaching groups of elementary-age students.
Fluency in Spanish.

Responsibilities

Serve as test coordinator and proctor for the WIDA Screener, WIDA Model, and ACCESS for ELLS, including administering testing accommodations.
Analyze student achievement and language proficiency data to guide instructional decisions.
Maintain updated data, progress-monitoring dashboards, and rosters.
Conduct six-week data analyses and develop corresponding action plans with school staff and multilingual learning experts.
Analyze formative and summative data and report outcomes and action steps to teachers and school leaders on professional development days.
Implement language-development curriculum to build students’ speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills.
Support students in meeting weekly Lexia English goals.
Participate in unit-planning meetings with classroom teachers to incorporate universal and targeted language-development strategies into unit and daily lesson plans.
Assist teachers with implementing universal and targeted language-development strategies in the classroom.
Design and/or deliver school-based professional development to strengthen educators’ academic and language-development support for English language learners.
Report student progress to families every six to eight weeks and host community events or meetings.
Provide non-instructional student supervision, including arrival and dismissal, hallway monitoring, substitute teaching, lunch and playground duty, and extracurricular activity supervision.