School-Based Literacy Coach

KIPP METRO ATLANTA COLLABORATIVE INC•Atlanta, GA

3d•$55,000 - $73,750•Onsite

About The Position

School-based literacy coaches will work in assigned schools to support Georgia's literacy legislation and provide appropriate services to schools so that there can be a cohesive, sustained, intensive, and classroom-focused approach that is rigorous, engaging, and relevant for students. School-based literacy coaches will provide a non-threatening, open, professional, and collaborative work relationship with principals, other academic coaches, and teachers. They will be required to effectively identify the needs of assigned schools in order to prioritize, schedule, organize, and provide technical assistance so that students in assigned schools achieve grade-level reading. Consistent with Georgia literacy legislation, the School-Based Literacy Coach shall not be: Authorized or required to perform administrative functions or duties, including, but not limited to, performing any rotating duty assignments or serving as an evaluator, substitute teacher, assessment coordinator, or school administrator; Invited, required, or permitted to attend placement committee meetings; Designated as a teacher of record.

Requirements

Valid Georgia teaching or service certificate at level 4 or higher.
A minimum of five years of documented successful classroom teaching or literacy intervention experience at assigned grade levels.
Knowledge of scientifically based reading research.
Special expertise in quality reading instruction and intervention.
Knowledge of dyslexia-specific interventions.
Knowledge of data analysis.
A thorough understanding of: Reading processes, acquisition, assessment, and instruction.
Systematic, explicit instructional process.
Instructional coaching approaches and strategies for teaching adult learners.
Scientific reading research and its application to effective classroom instruction, structure, and practices, as well as intervention.
Georgia's K–12 ELA Standards.
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.
Data analysis and application.

Nice To Haves

Georgia Reading Endorsement.
LETRS or Science of Reading professional learning.
Experience serving as a literacy coach, reading specialist, interventionist, or instructional coach.
Experience facilitating professional learning for educators.

Responsibilities

Coach educators using non-evaluative, evidence-based practices, including modeling instruction, analyzing instructional practice and data, providing actionable feedback, and delivering side-by-side classroom support.
Spend no less than 70 percent of the school day in classrooms working directly with students and teachers.
Prioritize time for those teachers, activities, and roles that will have the greatest impact on student reading achievement, such as coaching and mentoring in classrooms.
Demonstrate competency through approved, periodic, practice-based assessment that verifies the ability to apply the science of reading, learning science, and instructional science to deliver explicit, systematic, evidence-based literacy instruction directly with students.
Analyze student data, including screening, diagnostic, and progress-monitoring data, to inform instruction, grouping, and intervention within a multi-tiered system of supports framework.
Synthesize student performance data and educator practice data to establish coaching goals and design targeted, needs-based support for educators.
Support the implementation and monitoring of evidence-based literacy curricula and instructional materials with fidelity, ensuring alignment to the science of reading.
Collaborate with the school principal to create a strategic plan for literacy coaching.
Support Georgia's literacy legislation and literacy initiatives through coordinated implementation efforts.
Provide technical assistance that supports schools in achieving grade-level reading outcomes.
Maintain a non-threatening, open, professional, and collaborative working relationship with principals, academic coaches, and teachers.
Prioritize, schedule, organize, and provide support services that maximize literacy achievement and educator effectiveness.