Literacy Specialist_LakeForestHillsES

Job Description For Literacy Support Coach

Department or

Location:

RCSS Elementary Schools Position

Type:
Certified / Contracted (GRANT FUNDED)

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Reports To:

School Principal

Days: 190 Days (10 months)

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, Special Education, or related field required;
Master’s preferred. Advanced preparation in instructional coaching through completion of Coaching Endorsement, Teacher Leader Endorsement, or independent training program OR 3 years instructional leadership experience including curriculum design, professional development, and implementation support at the school or district level preferred.

Certification or Licensure:
Meets Georgia state certification requirements for teaching at level 4 or higher.

Work Experience:

Minimum five years of successful teaching at elementary level including evidence-based word recognition and comprehension instruction.

• Reading processes, acquisition, assessment, and instruction.
• Systematic explicit instructional processes.
• 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 Standards for Excellence in English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and new Georgia K-12 ELA Standards.
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.
• Data analysis and application.

This position supports Elementary schools to implement Georgia’s Literacy legislation and provide services to schools ensuring a cohesive, sustained, intensive, and classroom-focused approach that is rigorous, engaging, and relevant. Georgia Literacy coaches spend 70% of the school day in classrooms working directly with students and teachers. School-based Literacy Coaches build a non-threatening, professional, and collaborative relationship with principals, other academic coaches, and K-3 teachers.

They will identify needs, prioritize, schedule, organize, and provide technical assistance so students achieve grade-level reading by the end of third grade.

Specific duties include:

• Assist principals and other leadership in aligning school wide systems and resources to structured literacy.
• Provide regular and user-friendly data reports to districts and stakeholders.
• Assist K-3 teachers in addressing grade-specific curriculum by developing an effective literacy plan.
• Collaborate with Regional Structured Literacy Support Coaches to design and conduct professional development.
• Facilitate and lead coaching cycles with teachers, including goal setting, modeling, lesson observation, feedback, and reflective discussions.
• Provide clear, practical, timely feedback to teachers about instruction.
• Conference with teachers needing additional support to implement and monitor improvement plans.
• Meet regularly with principal, school-based coaches, and K-3 teachers to review data and recommend adjustments.
• Maintain an organized system for documenting coaching services.

Assist principals, K-3 teachers, and administrators with regular data reporting, curriculum development, and instruction support.

Typical duties include occasional lifting/moving up to 25 pounds, frequent walking, standing, sitting, talking, and hearing. The noise level is usually moderate.