Reading Specialist K-5 (26-27 SY)

Challenge Preparatory Charter School • Queens, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Challenge Preparatory Charter School (Challenge Prep) is seeking a dedicated Reading Specialist for grades K-5 for the 26-27 school year. Since 2010, Challenge Prep has served over 1200 scholars from Kindergarten to 12th grade across 3 sites in Far Rockaway, Queens. Our mission is to prepare students for academic excellence, mastery of NY State Learning Standards, and career aspirations. We foster intellectual, aesthetic, social, emotional, and ethical development, preparing students to be responsible 21st-century citizens through a rigorous, supportive, technology-infused, data-enriched, and social-emotional learning program. As a Reading Specialist Teacher, you will deliver exceptional small group instruction, assess scholar growth, and provide academic and cultural support to your school and team. This position reports to the principal.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• NYS certification required
• Highly motivated to teach students from underserved areas and devoted to closing the achievement gap
• The ability to create a classroom setting where students of every academic level experience enjoyment, engagement, and enthusiasm in their learning
• Strong teamwork ethic
• Ability to use data to drive instruction

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred
• Teaching experience in an urban school setting preferred

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate school-wide literacy program
• Provide support to teachers and provide strategies to improve instruction that will support literacy growth across the curriculum
• Assists struggling students to improve their literacy skills
• Collaborates with teachers in all departments to promote the learning and implementation of best practices in literacy instruction
• Creates and examines data to measure the success of literacy programs and instruction
• Teach targeted literacy intervention to small groups of students daily using research-based strategies and resources
• Conduct individual and school wide assessments in order to evaluate levels and targeted interventions using diagnostic tools
• Review student achievement and assist with placing students in appropriate reading and writing intervention and support services
• Meet regularly with the classroom teachers to plan literacy instruction that correlates with the individual student’s needs or as requested by the classroom teacher
• Maintain accurate records of student interventions and communicate to parents and families
• Helps students develop attitudes, habits, and skills that will enable them to become lifelong readers and learners
• Teaches/models current, innovative methodology and incorporates the NYS Learning Standards in delivering instruction
• Provide group and individual instruction
• Collaborate with colleagues to write unit plans and interim assessments; sharing teaching strategies, visiting peer classrooms, analyzing student data, and developing best practice pedagogy that supports literacy and critical thinking skills across all subject areas
• Employ a variety of collaborative team-teaching models for ESL students and special needs students
• Apply data gathered through formative and summative assessments to guide instructional plan
• Develop an individual growth plan, which includes professional goals and objectives in collaboration with the Principal and/or Assistant Principal

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Paid time off
• Matching of retirement contributions up to 3%
• Comprehensive benefits package including four health plans to choose from
• Two dental plans
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts for health, dependent care, and transit
• Opportunities to sit on various committees and participate in initiatives central to key organizational decisions and strategic planning
• Professional development: weekly PD, year-round trainings, and ongoing coaching by professionals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level