Literacy Content Specialist

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Sep 29, 2026, 5:55:47 PM

Southwest Side-501 W 35th St (Bridgeport)

CPS Non-Union Job Grade : SG1

90,000.

Position Type :
Non-Union Position

Exempt

Final salary offers are dependent upon candidate qualifications.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a district on the rise, serving over 320,000 students in 500+ schools and employing over 44,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life. In order to fulfill this mission, we make three commitments to our students, their families, and all Chicagoans: academic progress, financial stability, and integrity.

Six core values are embedded within these commitments – student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning.

The CPS Department of Literacy is committed to increasing equity of literacy outcomes across the district and ensuring that advanced literacy skills serve as a gateway to opportunity for all CPS students. Through the CPS PK-12 Vision for Advanced Literacy, the department sets clear expectations for what literacy learning should look like in our district and outlines the district-wide shifts and key practices we promote and support through universal and differentiated professional learning to ensure students have equitable opportunities to develop advanced literacy skills.

Our departmental efforts are aligned with the CPS Success 2029 Together We Rise 5-year strategic plan.

Reporting to the Literacy Manager, the Literacy Content Specialist will collaborate closely with other Content and/or Program Support Specialists to ensure that a coherent vision for PreK-12 Literacy teaching and learning is scaled throughout CPS. The primary objective of the Literacy Content Specialist will be to ensure that the support provided by the Office of Teaching and Learning improves the student experience and outcomes aligned to the CPS Instructional Core Vision.

Content Specialists will be assigned to professional learning work streams and will have responsibilities on PK-12 strategic priority teams.

The Literacy Content Specialist will work to enact the CPS PK-12 Vision for Advanced Literacy through leadership on assigned departmental initiatives aligned with Specialists’ areas of expertise and educational experience. This is a full-time exempt position that will be paid for time worked on a salary basis.

• Design and facilitate role-specific professional learning for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders adopting Skyline, the CPS universally available, high-quality curriculum. This includes design of foundational learning to support new Skyline ELA adopters as well as targeted professional learning to support more experienced Skyline ELA adopters in refining their use of the curriculum, and cross-departmental professional learning tailored to meet the needs of educators adopting Skyline in multiple content areas (e.g., ELA, science, and social science).
  
  Professional learning work streams may be specifically focused on supporting instructional coherence in core/Tier 1 instruction, Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, tutoring or other academic supports (e.g., EdTech tools), multilingual supports, and/or supports for students with IEPs. Work will involve cross-departmental and cross-office collaborations, including working with other Content Teams in the Office of Teaching &…