Library Information Specialist, FTE

• Position Type:
  Certificated Support Staff/ Library Information Specialist
• Date Posted: 7/6/2026
• Location:
  
  Cedar Valley Community School
• Closing Date: 07/13/2026

Edmonds School District is committed to workplace diversity and aims to attract and retain employees with the right skills, knowledge, and life experiences to meet the needs of each vacancy. We encourage individuals of different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives to apply and seek those who actively embrace our equity-focused direction for the future.

Our certificated staff are committed to engaging and supporting all students in learning. This is exemplified daily by their efforts to create learning environments that promote student autonomy, interaction, competence, and choice. They are aware of the diverse needs of Edmonds students and use all possible resources to meet this diversity including making reasonable accommodations for individual cognitive, physical, emotional and social needs.

Edmonds staff believe that every student has the capacity to learn. They support this belief by promoting high standards of learning for all and communicating these standards to all their students.

This is a 1.0 FTE non‑continuing position for a Library Information Specialist (LIS) at Cedar Valley Elementary. It is a leave replacement position that will begin at the start of the 2026‑27 school year through January 4, 2027 ONLY.

Preference will be given to candidates that currently have an ELL, ESOL, or Bilingual endorsement. SIOP training and GLAD training offered by the Multilingual Education Department will be required for all new employees unless they can show evidence of having completed SIOP and GLAD training previously. Training will need to be completed within the first two years of employment.

Instructor:

• Teaches media literacy lessons so that students develop into effective consumers and producers of ideas and information
• Teaches digital citizenship lessons and reinforces digital citizenship skills so that students develop into safe, responsible, and ethical users of digital media and tools
• Plans lessons aligned with AASL standards and/or CCSS/NGSS; ensures students are able to demonstrate mastery
• Differentiates instruction and assessment to meet the needs of diverse learners
• Actively cultivates a culturally responsive teaching environment that is inviting, safe, inclusive, and collaborative
• Promotes a vibrant and inclusive school-wide reading culture, guiding students to read for understanding and pleasure

Instructional Partner:

• Collaborates with classroom teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons and units of instruction, and assess student learning and instructional effectiveness
• Partners with admin and staff to create the specialists' class schedules (Elementary LIS)
• Uses and models (and coaches other staff in using) district-supported instructional technology and online resources to improve student engagement and independent learning
• Maintains familiarity with adopted curricula, scopes and sequences for various content areas, and pacing guides

Library Collection Manager:

• Actively engages in regular collection management processes: annual goal-setting and reflection, materials selection and processing, annual inventory, ongoing weeding, and end-of-year maintenance around missing or lost materials
• Manages any para educator and volunteer support, the library budget, as well as the physical and virtual spaces of the school library
• Creates an inclusive collection that authentically represents and celebrates diverse backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences in accordance with ESD board policy
• Curates print and digital resources to support school curriculum and empower a culture of inquiry
• Develops and administers an inviting and effective physical and digital library environment that represents the demographics of the school and meets the needs of the curriculum and instruction

Leader:

• Cultivates community partnerships
• Leads staff/peer development related to information literacy, media literacy, digital citizenship, and instructional technology
• Works with district staff to communicate key messages and information related to libraries, reading advocacy, instructional technology and digital tools, and digital citizenship and media literacy
• Advocates for and ensures equitable access to resources, technology, and information services for the entire school
• Provides the leadership and expertise necessary to ensure that the school library program is aligned with the mission, goals, and objectives of the school and the school district, and is an integral component of the learning/instructional program - and ensures that this message is clearly communicated to all school staff

Valid Washington State Teaching Certification with a Library Media endorsement (must have completed a school library endorsement program), OR Washington State Teaching Certification AND current enrollment in a school…