TLC TEAM SPECIALIST

Denver Public Schools•Denver, CO

11d•Onsite

About The Position

A TLC Team Specialist is a teacher who provides high-quality instruction in their own classroom while also facilitating collaborative team time to help a team or sub-team of teachers deliver joyful, rigorous, and personalized instruction that supports high academic achievement. The role supports improved student learning and teacher and school growth in areas including rigorous and relevant curriculum and planning; equitable instruction, culturally responsive teaching, and improved supports for English language learners; and student-data use, including Data-Driven Instruction (DDI) and Student Learning Objective (SLO) progress monitoring. There is no release time for this leadership role. It requires planning and delivering content in addition to regular classroom-teacher responsibilities. The person in this role must also hold a District teacher position evaluated through LEAP and responsible for student outcomes in Infinite Campus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Education or a related field.
Meet all licensure and certification requirements for teacher roles in the District.
Hold a District teacher position evaluated through LEAP and responsible for student outcomes in Infinite Campus by the time of service; candidates must be hired into a teaching role to also be hired into a Team Specialist role.
Participate in required onboarding and training over the summer and during the school year.
Lead for racial and educational excellence and work to dismantle systems of oppression and inequity in the community.
Believe in and support all students so they feel seen and heard and have access to high-quality education.
Live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado while working for the District.
Be able, with or without accommodations, to meet the physical demands of the position.

Responsibilities

Facilitate collaboration and professional learning during collaborative team time to develop a team of teachers’ capacity.
Align expectations, processes, and objectives for collaborative time with supports teachers receive from their supervisors; collaborative time complements rather than replaces supervisor-led collaboration.
Build a culture of continuous learning that maximizes staff and student morale and performance.
Support effective implementation of standards through methods such as hosting or facilitating learning labs, leading data inquiry, sharing resources, facilitating small-group or whole-staff professional learning, facilitating virtual learning communities, co-planning, and serving as a model classroom.
Provide high-quality instruction in the specialist’s own classroom while supporting teacher and school growth.