Grade K-3 Title I Summer Achievement Academy (SAA) Teacher Positions

Program Description:

The Amherst Public School District is pleased to share that the Title I Summer Achievement Academy will provide supplemental instructional programs at Crocker Farm in July 2025. The program is designed to support eligible Grade K3 Title I students from Fort River and Wildwood Schools. These Title I students are identified for targeted support to build and sustain progress in foundational reading skills writing oral language and vocabulary skills. The program will meet on MondayThursday from July 731. The supplemental services will be for explicit sequential foundational literacy skill development using UFLI curriculum .

Four six teaching positions available for small classes in grades K 1 2 and 3.

Two reading specialist positions available for small group instruction in grades K1 2 and 3.

Students attend from 8:15am 12:15pm; Educators attend from 8:00am12:30pm

Educator Requirements:

Early Literacy Classroom Positions K3: Teachers must have current MA DESE certification in Elementary Education or other relevant areas including Reading Specialist ELL Special Education and/or Speech and Language. In addition to general Elementary Education certification candidates will have specific teaching and professional development experience in the planning and instruction of explicit systematic structured literacy for development of foundational literacy skills including phonological awareness and sequential phonetic and morphological concepts. Experience with the UFLI Literacy Curriculum is highly preferred. Candidates will also need to be experienced in analyzing and using diagnostic literacy data including the CORE Phonics Survey to plan instruction in literacy skills for students including those unique to multilingual students. Experience centering culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in the learning environment is essential. Candidates should also have experience working with diverse populations including those for whom oral and written language development may be challenged by their learning profiles and/or by English language learning as a second language.

Reading Specialists K3: Teachers must have current MA DESE certification as a reading specialist. Educators must have experience in the planning and instruction of explicit systematic structured literacy for development of foundational literacy skills including phonological awareness and sequential phonetic and morphological concepts. Experience with the UFLI Literacy Curriculum is highly preferred. Candidates will also need to be experienced in analyzing and using diagnostic literacy data including the CORE Phonics Survey to plan instruction in literacy skills for students including those unique to multilingual students. Experience centering culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in the learning environment is essential. Candidates should also have experience working with diverse populations including those for whom oral and written language development may be challenged by their learning profiles and/or by English language learning as a second language. Reading Specialists will provide pushin small group instruction.

Salary: Teachers and Reading Specialists will be paid $53.00 per hour for 4.5 hours daily which includes 30 minutes of prep time daily.

Starting Date: Monday July 7 2025 Ending Date: Thursday July 31 2025

Orientation Meeting for Staff: Tentatively planned for Wednesday June 25 2024; Attendance at this three hour Orientation and Professional Development Day is required. Compensation at the rate of $50.00 per hour is provided for this day.

Interested staff should complete the School Spring application with a letter of interest to specify your experience with structured literacy and the qualifications delineated above. If on file it is not necessary to submit a resume again.