LTS English Multilingual Learners; EML Teacher

Job Description

Walpole Public Schools is seeking an LTS Emergent Multilingual Learners (EML) Teacher for Boyden Elementary School, effective August 31, 2026, for approximately 12 weeks.

• Initial assessment of students Pre-K to 12 who use a language other than English, according to the DESE Language Survey, to determine eligibility in the ELE program.
• Inform parents/guardians in English and their home language of all placement, redesignation and exit decisions.
• Maintain accurate ELE checklists documenting all instruction, progress, and assessment scores.
• Ensure that ELE student records are updated and maintained at each school.
• Assess ML students in the ELE program at the beginning of each academic year and periodically throughout the school year to measure progress.
• Maintain a portfolio of the ML student's work to assist in determining student progress.
• Administer the ACCESS to students in the ELE program in grades K-12.
• Review placement of all ELE Program students annually, including progress of students who have opted out of the ELE Program.
• Consult and collaborate with classroom teachers and district EML teachers to further ML student progress.
• Develop the English language proficiency of MLs in the ELE program according to DESE guidelines.
• Follow the DESE Guidance on English Learner Education Services and Programming and the Walpole Public Schools ELE Program Information Guide.
• Further support sheltered instruction available to MLs in the SEI classroom in inclusion or pull-out settings.
• Provide regular EML Progress Reports to parents of ELE program students.
• Provide former ELE and opt-out monitor reports at regular intervals in accordance with district marking periods.
• Provide translated ELE program documents, as requested, to ELE families.
• Inform school administration of the need for interpreters/translators for meetings.
• Enhance Family and Community Engagement of ELE program parents according to Standard III of DESE Education Evaluation rubric.
• Participate in the ML PAC as requested.
• Monitor progress of students who have been exited from the program (Former ELE) for four years.
• Other duties as required by school and district supervisors.

School Principal and Assistant Superintendent.

• Current DESE licensure as an ESL teacher (Pre-K-6) or eligibility to obtain.