Education Specialist

Description

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Kids (formerly Episcopal Children’s Services) is a 2026 Top Workplace that honors young children’s immense potential by helping them enter school ready to learn. We cultivate lifelong learners by immersing children in enriching guided experiences and discovery-oriented approaches. Through our Head Start program, our dedicated professionals work with families and caregivers throughout Georgia to promote children’s well-being. This enables us to strengthen key areas including motor development, cognitive development, social and emotional development, language and communication skills, and problem-solving skills.

Partner with us to help empower communities to rise above generational poverty with comprehensive early childhood education and holistic family support. We have career opportunities available in several counties throughout the Savannah River Region.

ECS4

Kids offers a competitive benefit package which includes:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 403(b) plan with 5% employer match
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Long-term & short-term disability insurance
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Generous paid time off
• Career development
• Qualifying employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

The Education Specialist provides training, modeling, curriculum and professional development support to ensure that Head Start classrooms are meeting the highest level of quality.

• Visit HS classrooms at assigned centers daily to conduct coaching sessions that include on-site modeling and teacher observations of appropriate early educational practices and activities using the adopted coaching model.
• Establish mentoring relationships with teachers that will result in further improvement of developmentally appropriate teaching skills.
• Model and observe best practices and strategies in all domains of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework and Head Start Performance Standards.
• Implement with fidelity the data-driven Lastinger Caching Model, including the use of reflective questioning to guide teachers to connect theory to daily practice.
• Communicate with Center Managers regarding teacher goals for improved performance.
• Facilitate teacher trainings at scheduled Teacher Training Days and Pre-Service.

• Support teachers in implementing with fidelity the daily schedule and adopted curricula.
• Model and observe curriculum implementation at various parts of the day and in different group settings.

• Support teachers in collecting and analyzing child assessment data that produce positive school readiness outcomes for children and that support children’s growth and development.
• Model and observe child data collection at various parts of the day and in different group settings.

• Support teachers in creating literacy-rich, developmentally appropriate, engaging learning environments.
• Support teachers in using teacher observation data to select focus areas and create goals for improved teaching practices that lead to improved child outcomes.
• Model and observe CLASS behavior markers during classroom visits.
• Evaluate classrooms using the CLASS teacher evaluation assessment.
• Support teachers and Center Managers in the use of ECERS, and curriculum fidelity checklists.

• Adhere to the Coaching Protocols as outlined by the ECS4
  
  Kids Education Department.
• Ensure Professional Development Plans are completed and updated annually.
• Support teaching staff in complying with educational standards and regulations, including Head Start Performance Standards, Georgia DECAL requirements, and any applicable accrediting agency guidelines.
• Attend required workshops and in-service trainings and keep informed of current trends and new professional techniques through participating in professional workshops and by reading professional journals and publications related to early childhood development to increase knowledge of best practices.
• Advocate on behalf of ECS4
  
  Kids Head Start and children and families involved in the program.

(These job functions are not to be…