Supplemental Instruction Specialist

Supplemental Instruction Specialist

Waco ISD - Waco, Texas

Wage/Hour Status: Exempt/Contracted

Pay Grade/Days: 102/212

Dept./School: Student Intervention Services

Date Revised: June 2021

Systematically facilitate instructional improvement and student success by working with the campus leadership team, teachers, and district curriculum and instruction leaders to utilize data-driven practices to facilitate teacher development in effective teaching strategies for the implementation and monitoring of supplemental instruction.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Master's degree in related field preferred
• Valid Texas teaching certificate
• Knowledge of instructional leadership competencies and willingness to lead in such capacity
• Ability to use experience and leadership abilities to influence others and lead change
• Strong core content knowledge in associated content
• Experience successfully leading and managing a team of adults to accomplish goals
• Knowledge and experience with classroom implementation of rigorous curriculum and supplemental instructional strategies
• Knowledge of effective instructional strategies and research-based best practices including standards-based lesson planning, unit planning and pacing, writing objectives, formative assessment, creation of exemplars, success criteria, response to intervention, differentiated instruction for tiered intervention and special student populations, and student assessment and data-driven instruction
• Demonstrated evidence and success with providing observation and coaching for teachers
• Demonstrated evidence in the ability to create and deliver professional development for teachers at the campus and district level, and the ability to use data from student learning and teacher observations to effectively create, deliver, and support job-embedded professional development at the campus level
• Knowledge of curriculum writing, alignment, and assessment creation to support the curriculum and instruction department with curriculum development at the district level and implementation at the campus level
• Exceptional communication skills
• Commitment to carrying out the mission and vision of the district and to be a champion for the work
• Relentless desire to implement a growth mindset for increasing student learning and teacher knowledge and effectiveness
• Effective experience defined as being rated at least proficient or above on all dimensions within each of the four domains of the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS), or ratings of equal weight and magnitude if evaluation was provided using another evaluation tool
• Experience using student and teacher level data to support lesson planning and to implement and differentiate instructional methods designed to meet each student's individual needs
• Knowledge of multi-tiered systems of support for students

• Evidence of at least five years of successful teaching experience