Es Learning Support Teacher

**Position Responsibilities**

**Elementary School Educator Responsibilities**

**1. Classroom Culture & Student Well-being**:

- Foster Student Belonging: Cultivate a caring, joyful, and purposeful learning community where all students feel valued, respected, and motivated.
- Promote Social-Emotional Learning: Utilize principles like Responsive Classroom to support the physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of every student.
- Uphold School Values: Model the school's Core Values of respect, responsibility, honesty, fairness, and compassion in all interactions with students, staff, and the community.
- Implement Culturally Responsive Practices: Create a learning environment that is culturally responsive and affirming of students' identities.

**2. Curriculum & Instructional Planning**:

- Standards-Based Planning: Use a planning framework to identify essential learning based on Common Core State Standards (CCSS), learning targets, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Interdisciplinary & Real-World Connections: Design curriculum that demonstrates an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and connects learning to real-world issues.
- Collaborative Curriculum Development: Work with PLC teams and administration to develop cohesive curriculum materials, establish common goals, and participate in curriculum review and budgeting.

**3. Pedagogy & Instructional Delivery**:

- High-Impact Instruction: Employ current, research-informed pedagogical practices and high-impact instructional strategies to deliver engaging lessons.
- Differentiated Learning Experiences: Design and implement collaborative and differentiated learning experiences that meet the diverse academic and social-emotional needs of all students.
- Flexible Grouping: Use data to flexibly group students based on their individual needs, abilities, and assets.
- Technology Integration: Integrate technology in innovative ways to enhance daily instruction and student learning.
- Responsive Interventions: Respond to learners’ diverse needs, including those related to emerging multilingualism and neurodivergent profiles, by using measurable, research-informed interventions and extensions.

**4. Assessment & Data-Driven Practices**:

- Comprehensive Assessment System: Design and use a variety of quality formative, summative, and self-guided assessments to provide students with frequent feedback.
- Monitor and Adjust: Continuously monitor student learning through standards-based assessments and data analysis to make appropriate modifications to goals and strategies.
- Communicate Progress: Use assessment data to accurately communicate student growth and achievement.

**5. Collaboration & Professional Growth**:

- Engage in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs): Actively collaborate with team members to plan curriculum, give and receive feedback, and engage in professional reflection and learning.
- Practice Co-Teaching: Engage in co-teaching practices and utilize flexible learning spaces with intention and purpose.
- Commit to Continuous Improvement: Strive for self-improvement as a lifelong learner by actively engaging in professional development and feedback cycles with coaches and principals.
- Support School-Wide Programs: Cooperate with and participate in the planning and evaluation of the overall school program as needed.

**6. Community & Family Engagement**:

- Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom: Engage students in meaningful extracurricular activities such as coaching, clubs, field trips, or service projects.

**Role specific Responsibilities**:
**Strengths-Based Assessment for Data-Driven Decisions**:

- **Identify Student Strengths and Needs**:Employ a range of diagnostic tools to build a holistic profile of each learner, focusing first on their strengths and assets. This includes:

- **Literacy**:Assessing foundational skills aligned with the **Science of Reading**to identify both areas of proficiency and specific needs for growth.
- **Numeracy**:Evaluating mathematical skills through a **conceptual framework**to understand a student's reasoning strengths and conceptual gaps.
- **Executive Function**:Determining specific strengths and challenges in areas like working memory, planning, and self-regulation to inform support strategies.

**Data-Driven Intervention & Strengths-Based Planning**:

- **Leverage Strengths in Support Plans**:Make **data-based decisions**to write and update Individual Education Support Plans (IESPs) that explicitly leverage student strengths, interests, and cultural assets to build confidence and drive progress toward SMART goals.
- **Implement Evidence-Based Literacy Interventions**:Design and deliver explicit and structured literacy interventions rooted in the **Science of Reading**, making instructional decisions based on student response data.
- **Implement Conceptual Math Interventions**:Plan and execute math support using **conceptual frameworks**(e.g., Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract), adapting ins