SY Teacher Specialist, Literacy Elementary

Primary Function

This position is responsible for providing onsite leadership and support to identified schools to ensure the effective implementation of effective Research Best Practices.

School Support Officer

Teacher + Additive

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• Education Level: Master's degree in Elementary Education, Leadership or related content area.

• Three years demonstrated Teacher Leadership.
• Valid professional teaching certificate in Elementary Education, Elementary Reading Endorsement, or Reading P-12 and at least three years of teaching experience.
• Extensive knowledge of learning processes, research-based best practices, change theory, curriculum implementation, assessment, literacy and/or math strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to raise student achievement and improve underperforming student achievement through a results-oriented approach driven by data.
• Demonstrated knowledge of state and federal guidelines including, but not limited to, the College and Career Readiness Index, Georgia Milestone Assessments, and the Georgia Standards of Excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others, collaborate to solve problems and build high-performing teams.

• Experience in Secondary Education.

• Coordinates the management and monitoring aspects of the school improvement plan as outlined in the School Improvement
• Monitors adherence to the established accountability plan for ensuring academic achievement and continuous school improvement.
• Participates with the staff in ongoing data analysis and formative assessment on progress toward the College and Career Readiness Performance Index.
• Works with the Network Superintendent, School Support Officer, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Principal to ensure that a school leadership team is fully operational as defined in the School Keys.
• Works with the School Support Officer and Principal to ensure that the leadership team activities are focused on identified needs.
• Works with the Network Superintendent, School Support Officer, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Principal to ensure the consistent monitoring of instruction with the provision of timely, performance-based feedback to teachers.

• Facilitates ongoing collaborative observation and feedback sessions with school-based instructional coaches, assistant principals, and instructional personnel.
• Creates a sense of urgency and takes immediate action to help school-based instructional personnel mitigate student learning loss.
• Monitors formative and summative assessments to ensure that results are analyzed and used to guide instruction.
• Serves on data teams to analyze feeder school student achievement, initiate lines of communication and planning with feeder schools and develop early warning systems and transition programs for students.
• Collaborates with local universities, technical schools, and civic/community organizations to improve academic performance of students.

• Collaborates with teachers to effectively adjust instructional strategies, classroom management and assessment techniques to ensure student achievement.
• Facilitates training for teachers and administrators in areas of need as identified by the district and the school.
• Directs the use of data to increase overall school improvement and to eliminate the achievement gap.
• Works with the Principal and other staff to ensure the implementation of a comprehensive, job-embedded professional learning program for all staff, focused on identified and documented needs for improving teaching and learning.

• Assists and supports the principal and staff in focusing school activities on student achievement.
• Facilitates one-on‑one coaching and support as needed.
• Provides reports to the Network Superintendent, School Support Officer, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and Principal regarding the…