Coordinator, Early Literacy

Administrative
- Central Office
- Coordinator (Teaching & Learning)

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Start Date

Open Date 09/30/2026

Closing Date 10/09/2026

The Coordinator, Early Literacy is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the Early Intervention Reading Initiative (EIRI), a state-funded grant program. The position is responsible for providing leadership, alignment, coordination, and delivery in the development and improvement of the curriculum program for the school division with a focus on early literacy. The coordinator ensures that resources are available for teacher and student use and provide the necessary staff development and instructional coaching for effective implementation of the assigned instructional program.

• Serve as the point person for Early Intervention Reading Initiative (EIRI) to include overseeing a multi-million-dollar budget, coordinating hiring, training, and implementation of Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) support staff, and serving as the PALS division representative.
• Support schools in administration, interpretation, and analysis of PALS data and coordinate communication among PALS office, division leadership, and site-based personnel.
• Ensure alignment of instructional materials to the science of reading (early reading) including but not limited to curriculum guides, objectives, content specification documents, learning plans, parent/student documents, assessment instruments, digital resources, and report cards.
• Maintain a basic and supplementary list of instructional materials and partner with Distribution Services to manage deliveries and classroom materials transfers of early reading materials.
• Prepare and monitor the grant's digital resources, materials, textbooks, and general budget.
• Review and analyze balanced assessment data for the assigned grant to inform professional learning, instructional coaching, curriculum development, and monitor progress toward division goals.
• Participate in and help facilitate collaborative meetings (e.g., PLCs) and participate in school support meetings to provide guidance and data analysis for diagnostic assessments and division assessments aligned to early reading (e.g., PALS, PALS quick checks).
• Analyze and interpret assessment data to inform remediation plans and provide remediation support as indicated in the grant.
• Develop and facilitate teacher, teacher leader, and principal professional learning in early reading, assessment practices, and effective instruction aligned to the grant.
• Work collaboratively with curriculum coordinators to develop short and long-term goals for the curricular area with an emphasis on early reading and vertical articulation of reading skills.
• Support and work collaboratively with principals and teaching staff to effect horizontal and vertical continuity and articulation of early reading throughout the division.
• Provide ongoing instructional coaching and professional learning for PALS support staff members, teachers, teacher assistants, instructional coaches, and administrators in early reading.
• Observe teachers, teacher assistants and PALS support staff members as requested by building administrators and provide immediate feedback to enhance instructional planning and delivery practices.
• Work collaboratively with staff members in the Department of Teaching and Learning and other departments, as assigned to support early reading.
• Work collaboratively with team members and principals of assigned schools to support each school's Plan for Continuous Improvement and the division's Strategic Framework to improve early reading.
• Stay abreast of the most current research in early reading, instructional coaching, leadership, and equitable practices.
• Perform related…