Es Learning Support Teacher- 0.5 Fte; One- Year Local Faculty Contract

**Position Responsibilities**

**Elementary School Educator Responsibilities**
- Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Elementary School.
- Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in the classroom, taking into account the physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
- Utilize the principles of Responsive Classroom to build a community where students feel valued, respected, and motivated to succeed.
- Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Design and implement engaging learning experiences that are collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
- Employ high-impact instructional practices based on current pedagogical approaches to teach the curriculum.
- Design and deliver engaging, differentiated lessons that align with curriculum standards and meet the academic and social-emotional needs of all students.
- Regularly assess student progress through formative assessments and other data-driven tools.
- Accurately and regularly assess student progress through formative and summative standards-based approaches.
- Continuously monitor student learning and make appropriate modifications of goals and strategies to meet students’ needs.
- Group students flexibly based on their individual needs, abilities, and assets, using data to inform grouping decisions.
- Design quality formative, summative, and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate their growth and achievement.
- Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
- Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
- Demonstrate experience with current best pedagogical practices, teaching materials, and instructional strategies.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).
- Work closely with team members, PLC teams, and school administration to develop cohesive curriculum materials and establish common instructional goals and assessments.
- Engage in team planning, curriculum review, budgeting, and other school-required activities as needed.
- Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
- Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.
- Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.
- Engage in co-teaching practices with other members of the PLC and utilize learning community spaces with intention and flexibility.
- Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
- Strive for continuous self-improvement as a lifelong learner.
- Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.
- Cooperate with and participate in the planning and evaluation of the school program as needed.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).

**Role-Specific Responsibilities**
- Effectively intervene to close specific skill gaps in literacy and numeracy
- Use agreed upon assessments to identify student need and monitor progress
- Implement accommodations, where necessary, to meet individual student learning needs
- Write student learning plans with clear and measurable goals
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate records of student progress and attendance
- Use diagnostic assessment to determine students’ strengths and needs in literacy, numeracy, and/or executive function.
- Write/update students’ Individual Education Support Plan using data to inform SMART goals
- Plan data-informed interventions to support the development of reading, writing, math, and executive function skills.
- Use a variety of progress monitoring strategies to monitor student progress toward their goals
- Collaborate in Professional Learning Communities to review data and share progress monitoring documentation and planning for next steps for a plan of intervention.
- Collaborate with PLC members, students, and parents to write Individual Education Support Plans with SMART goals as well as Individual Accommodation Plans

Position Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred
- Teaching license or a degree in education
- A certification in special educatio