Reading SpecialistInterventionist

Job Title: Reading Specialist/Interventionist

Exemption Status/Test: Exempt

Reports to: Building Principal

Contract Period: Full Time

Dept./School: As Assigned

Date Revised: April 2025

Primary Purpose: Accelerate learning to close achievement and opportunity gaps and ensure a collegeready foundation for every scholar by delivering rigorous instruction to scholars in order to promote intellectual social and emotional growth and ensure that regardless of socioeconomic factors every child is prepared to positively contribute to society. This purpose is embraced with urgency determination and perseverance.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• Valid Texas teacher certificate with required endorsements or training for subject and level assigned.

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to work with multiethnic populations in a multicultural setting.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse community district staff members parents community and the public.
• Ability to disaggregate data develop plans of action and lead implementation across the campus
• Bilingual fluency preferred.

Experience:

• At least two years creditable teaching experience in the content field and/or grade level preferred

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

Staff Culture

• Demonstrate high expectations through extended hours with learning opportunities for scholars as well as professional development commitments for continuous improvement
• Accelerate campus transformation through strong leadership effective teaching and high expectations to ensure every student develops the foundation for college readiness
• Other duties as assigned may include working in supplemental assignments under special revenue funds or state compensatory education funds
• Perform all jobrelated duties as assigned and in accordance with the Board rules policies and regulations together with exhibiting high professionalism standards of conduct and work ethic. All employees are expected to comply with lawful directives in rare situations driven by need where a team effort is required
• Attend and participate in school events during and outside of regular school hours
• Contribute ideas work on committees collaborate with peers participate in curriculum development and revision activities as appropriate and attend district and campus professional development activities demonstrating a commitment to personal and professional growth and development
• Maintain accurate and efficient recordkeeping of official attendance records grade reports student files documentation of state and local assessment preparation and other appropriate documents
• Perform essential functions and roles pertaining to testing including monitoring and proctoring tests securing and disseminating test data combined with maintaining current and accurate records of student test data
• Exhibits a personal interest and enthusiasm for literacy to support the teaching literacy and encourage learning around literacy
• Uses literacy strategies that are sensitive to the multiple experiences and diversity of scholars and that allow for different ways of demonstrating learning
• Helps student to persevere in order to understand and use their literacy skills fluently effectively and meaningfully

Effective Instruction

• Support the coordination of the literacy development programming on the campus
• Coach and model district recommended literacy strategies and initiatives
• Collaborate coordinate and communicate with administrators and teachers regularly to assist with analyzing instructional materials teacher and student performance data to help identify student specific literacy needs in collaborative planning and professional learning communities
• Collaborate to provide professional learning opportunities aligned with the district and campus literacy practices to support purposeful literacy practices across the campus
• Collaborate with peers to incorporate literacy strategies and build academic language skills to improve reading comprehension in all grade levels and across all subject areas
• Facilitate literacy based small groups of scholars to provide remediation intervention and/or enrichment that accommodate individual needs of scholars
• Support planning and classroom implementation of literacy instruction and assessments using the district curriculum and researchbased reading instruction intervention and contentbased strategies
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies current research knowledge and best practices to integrate technology into the literacy curriculum to maximize student outcomes (i.e. intervention assessment enrichment blended learning; flipped classrooms; etc.
• Displays extensive content knowledge of all the subjects with an emphasis on reading teaches the district curriculum utilizing welldesigned lesson plans and rigorous instruction combined with curriculum activities and instructional objectives that are standardsbased measurable and accelerate the transfer of learning and knowledge while proactively developing teaching techniques to mitigate misunderstandings in a comprehensive literacy approach
• Assess and document student mastery of curriculum objectives and student progress utilizing frequent appropriate ongoing and multiple assessment tools like Amplify NWEA (MAP) IXL running records etc. and through and formal procedures including standardized tests formative assessments performance tasks enrichments and observations
• Monitor student progress daily while providing feedback and adjust instructional strategies and materials to provide differentiated instruction address individual needs of scholars and maintain student engagement targeting literacy specific instructional needs
• Develop and maintain literacy intervention plans for scholars and use the data to support teachers in developing differentiated core instructional lessons based individual student literacy needs
• Develop instructional activities resources technology and instructional materials that are all aligned to instructional purposes are varied and appropriate to ability levels of scholars and actively engage them in ownership of their learning while providing opportunities for enrichments and differentiations provide for collaboration creative thinking and extended interaction among scholars in literacybased learning

Student Culture

• Establish and utilize effective routines transitions and procedures that primarily rely on student leadership and responsibility
• The classroom is safe and thoughtfully designed to engage challenge and inspire scholars to participate in highlevel learning beyond the learning objectives
• Execute and maintain appropriate studentcentered discipline techniques and effective classroom management strategies to maximize student learning and timeontask

Parent Engagement

• Engage parents and families in the academic and behavioral progress of their child by initiating parent conferences home visits and providing opportunities for parents to continually support student learning and school programs
• Establish relationships with families and community and use language that is respectful and allinclusive when speaking about scholars their families and the community
• Collaborates with families school teachers and staff and other professionals to promote student growth and development in literacy

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

Tools/Equipment Used: Personal computer and peripherals; standard instructional equipment; P.E. teachers: automated external defibrillator (AED)

Posture: Prolonged standing; frequent kneeling/squatting bending/stooping pushing/pulling and twisting

Motion: Frequent walking

Lifting: Regular light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds); may lift and move textbooks and classroom equipment

Environment: Work inside may work outside; regular exposure to noise

Mental Demands: Maintain emotional control under stress; work prolonged or irregular hours

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority