Early Childhood Specialist (Preschool) (2 Positions

** Pending Board Approval

The WISD's Mission is to educate, serve, and advocate with students, families, schools and the community. We disrupt racial inequities, build just educational systems, and expand access for all learners. We value human potential while striving to support current and future generations of Washtenaw County to enrich as many lives as we possibly can.

is to be a leader in empowering, facilitating, and delivering high-quality, boundary-spanning, educational system that educates all children through an equitable, inclusive, and holistic approach.

The Early Childhood Specialist will support the Great Start Readiness Programs (GSRP) and/or the Head Start programs operated by local district and community partner sub-recipients. The Early Childhood Specialist will work to ensure the development and delivery of high-quality pre-kindergarten services and to support and coach classroom staff. The service area will include programs in local school districts and other community-based preschool partners within Washtenaw County.

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to equity, social justice, and inclusion in all practices and position responsibilities.
• Demonstrates the ability to examine how his/her/their position (directly or indirectly) impacts educational inequities in student achievement outcomes.
• Engages in reflection and ongoing learning and development on critical concepts and terms identified in the Washtenaw ISD Educational Equity Policy including concepts such as cultural proficiency, racial equity, and systemic and structural inequities.
• Supports the WISD mission and vision to enhance achievement for all children.
• Develops productive relationships with other community partners in planning and development of coordinated early intervention and early childhood development services.
• Assists in developing, facilitating, and conducting local learning and awareness opportunities for school and agency personnel, and community early childhood program partners.
• Attends scheduled staff, department and professional meetings.
• Participates in Michigan Department of Education and Head Start Technical Assistance sessions as needed.
• Facilitates and delivers appropriate preschool professional development strategies for local preschool classrooms.
• Completes necessary paperwork, documentation, narrative reports, correspondence and evaluation measures to ensure all grant requirements are met in a professional and timely manner.
• Supports preschool joint recruitment in partnership with the GSRP and Head Start partners.
• Supports the GSRP/Head Start professional learning community to develop and share expertise in the area of early learning and to critically reflect with other Early Childhood Specialists in order to increase student achievement.
• Participates in the Parent Advisory and School Readiness Work groups.
• Conducts the CLASS in assigned District and partner preschool classrooms to