Essential functions of the position may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Understands how students learn and provides learning opportunities that support intellectual, social, and personal development of diverse learners
• Evaluates student progress and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to determine whether students have achieved high standards and modifies instructional strategies as needed to maximize achievement.
• Coach and support teachers and teams to grow and achieve goals in literacy.
• Analyze data at student-level, teacher-level and school-level and to identify strengths, opportunities for growth, and curricular and implementation implications.
• Plan and lead professional development to ensure all stakeholders are set on a path to achieve determined goals.
• Serve on a team that implements schoolwide literacy priorities, including but not limited to Close Reading, Guided Reading, writing, Foundational Literacy, and ELA curriculum across the program for students in grade K-8.
• Create strategy for literacy implementation, support, and coaching across teams to reach goals in literacy.
• Provide lesson planning support and oftentimes complete lesson plans for teams on various literacy themes including but not limited to writing, phonics, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension and vocabulary development.
• Coach, build relationships, and support team members across the school to ensure strong implementation of literacy programs.
• Develop, manage, and lead the literacy initiative alongside the curriculum specialist to innovate and try new programs, structures, and strategies; gather data and artifacts to make programmatic recommendations for further years.
• Serve as interventionist working with small groups of students to close achievement gaps in line with the school’s mission and vision.
• Provide direct instruction to students who are enrolled in RtI.
• Works effectively with school colleagues, parents, and the community to support students’ learning and well-being.
• Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff.
• Actively engages in professional development opportunities.
• Performs other related duties as required.