Literacy Interventionist

Position:

Literacy Interventionist Grades 6-8

Rindge Avenue Upper School

Rindge Avenue Upper School Community:

Rindge Avenue Upper School is a dynamic middle school energized by our collaboratively created school improvement plan. Our vision is rooted in the district goals for all Upper Schools: academic excellence and social justice for all students. We are also deeply committed to becoming a more culturally responsive learning institution and work to maintain an equity lens on all we believe we can achieve our goals by grounding our school in our deeply shared core values created together by staff students and families: Reflect Aim high seek Unity have Compassion. Having these values at our center empowers us to learn take risks and grow together in a safe and nurturing environment. Students teachers and families share responsibility for creating an inclusive community. We stay true to our values by reflecting regularly and repairing the community when needed. Everyone has access to an excellent education and everyone is equally valued respected and accepted for who they are.

The Opportunity:

The Rindge Avenue Upper School is seeking to hire a Literacy Interventionist. This is a full-time school based role.

Key Responsibilities

• Possess deep literacy content knowledge and instructional pedagogy and stay current on best practices and research
• Partner with Literacy Coach and grade level teachers to determine literacy intervention goals plans groups and schedules.
• Partner with Literacy Coach to manage and organize school-wide and intervention data.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 literacy intervention to selected students following MTSS guidance and processes for assessment planning communication progress monitoring.
• Actively participate in and support school-based and district-facilitated professional learning
• Partner with families to include them in each students learning and development guided by a profound understanding of the importance of this connection.
• Empower a diverse group of learners via compassionate research-based culturally sustaining literacy instruction guided by district processes and Literacy Coach recommendations and feedback.
• Continuously engage both individually and with fellow educators in ongoing learning and reflection related to culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy and continuous learning and growth related to literacy and intervention.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Your Skill Set:

As the incoming Literacy Interventionistyou will possess many though perhaps not all of the following characteristics and qualifications:

• An unwavering belief in all students along with a strong desire to always learn grow and improve
• Five or more years of proven effective literacy teaching experience
• Deep knowledge of research-based best practices related to literacy assessment and instruction
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required; Masters in Education strongly preferred.
• Required Massachusetts Teacher Certification/Licensure in English Language Arts and/or Reading
• Reading Specialist degree and/or other relevant coursework (OG LETRS etc.)
• Experience using data and a variety of skills-based assessments to determine intervention groups and to inform instruction.

How to Join Our Team:

Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter outlining how your skills experience and commitment to equity in education meet the qualifications of the position as well as stating how you heard about this opportunity.

At the Cambridge Public Schools we are committed to cultivating an environment where diverse perspectives and backgrounds are embraced acknowledging that a team reflecting diversity of race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital/domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability status and veteran status allows us to serve our communities better. To that end we welcome and encourage applicants to bring their authentic selves when considering employment opportunities within our school district.