District Early Learning Coach, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA [SY 2024-2025]

District Early Learning Coach Salem Public Schools Salem MA SY 2024-2025

Compensation: This position is on the teacher/coordinator contract (teacher pay scale $3500 stipend for 7 additional days)

Position Start Date: As soon as possible

About Salem Public Schools where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4000 students in 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged globally connected and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging equity and opportunity in everything we do. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students regardless of ability economic status gender/gender identity language race/ethnicity sexual orientation or other backgrounds. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at is a new position that will report to the Executive Director of Academics. The District Early Learning Coach will play a key role in expanding the districts preschool program including collaborating with several community preschool partners as well as supporting the implementation of a new PreK-2 literacy curriculum. The position will require travel between schools and partner locations.

Responsibilities

• Plans and coordinates the implementation of new instructional resources at the PreK-2 level
• Ensures that all district and partner preK classrooms have equitable access to curriculum resources in literacy math science and social studies
• Ensures that all district and partner preK classrooms have equitable access to professional development and coaching
• Provides differentiated professional development for preschool teachers with the goal of improving student learning and achievement
• Supports common planning time whenever possible
• Promotes quality implementation of research-based early childhood instructional models
• Prepares regular data reports to track district-wide trends in early literacy
• Supports early childhood teachers and school/district leaders in using early literacy and numeracy data to drive instruction
• Manages administrative tasks such as ordering technical support organizing schedules planning PD etc.
• Carries out other duties as assigned by the Deputy Superintendent and the Executive Director of Academics

Coaching Responsibilities

• Networks and supports new teachers at the prekindergarten level
• Carries out coaching cycles with individual teachers or groups of teachers (training provided)
• Works to ensure excellent instruction in every classroom

Note: This is a non-evaluative position

What Youll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change childrens lives through education. Youll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant diverse in background ethnicity language and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself students and colleagues You see potential in all especially our SPS students and maintain high expectations for achievement while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic caring relationships with colleagues students and families You build strong relationships across students families and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Interest in connecting students worlds to hands-on classroom learning You are constantly researching and investigating real world experiences to guide student learning. You bring the capacity and desire to partner with external organizations to build integrated real-world learning for students. A passion for building connections between learning and student lives will be essential.
• Embrace feedback You view yourself as a coach of students - providing ongoing feedback and support as students explore open-ended problems and probing their learning. You are a reflective practitioner who learns from failure using mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Qualifications

Applicant must hold the following credentials:

• Massachusetts teaching certification/licensure in Early Childhood Elementary Education and/or Reading
• Five or more years of successful teaching at the PreK-2 level preferably in an urban setting
• Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement; ESL licensure a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills attention to detail
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus;
• Multilingual candidates and candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Thorough knowledge and/or expertise in the following areas:

• Deep knowledge of the PreK - 2 MA Literacy Frameworks
• Demonstrated knowledge of the components of a research-based PreK literacy models
• Experience in matching student needs to appropriate core and Tier II interventions
• Knowledge of standards-based assessment and effective use of student data
• Familiarity with the latest literacy research and the science of reading especially as it relates to emergent readers
• Effective teaching practice/pedagogy including tiered instructional practices in a multi-tiered system of support

Essential Attributes:

• Maintains a sense of urgency in accomplishing goals and objectives
• Holds an unwavering belief that every student in Salem can grow and succeed
• Is able to work collaboratively and flexibly as part of a fast-paced hard-working team
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others including knowledge of how adults learn
• Has a strong work ethic is self-directed and has the ability to work independently
• Is able to multitask on a number of high-profile projects as well as on more routine tasks
• Self-reflects and accepts feedback with a growth mindset

Benefits: The City of Salem offers Group Insurance Commission (GIC) benefits to all full-time employees. Click here for more information about our health benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identity sexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship status veteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation