ALBANY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ONE

Laramie Wyoming

JOB DESCRIPTION: Secondary Literacy Interventionist

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Secondary Literacy Interventionist provides targeted evidence-based instruction to students in grades 6-12 who require specialized support in reading and writing. This role focuses on diagnosing specific literacy deficits and delivering impactful interventions that equip adolescent learners with the skills to access and engage with complex grade-level texts. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of how foundational literacy skills are developed and remediated in older students fostering an environment that builds academic confidence and independence.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The interventionist:

• Designs and delivers targeted evidence-based literacy interventions for individuals and small groups of students in grades 6-12.
• Explicitly teaches strategies related to word study reading fluency academic vocabulary and reading comprehension.
• Scaffolds instruction to help students successfully navigate and extract meaning from complex cross-curricular texts.
• Integrates targeted instruction focused on foundational reading writing speaking and listening skills.
• Creates a supportive learning environment that actively builds students confidence and academic self-efficacy.
• Administers and interprets screening diagnostic literacy assessments to identify specific gaps in foundational skills.
• Monitors student progress using progress monitoring tools along with formative and summative data.
• Maintains accurate up-to-date records of student performance and intervention goals.
• Collaborates with content-area teachers to align intervention schedules and strategies with Tier I classroom instruction.
• Serves as a literacy resource for secondary staff sharing knowledge of adolescent reading development and remediation strategies.
• Communicates regularly with parents and guardians regarding student progress instructional goals and at-home support strategies.
• Maintains compliance with any state or district level literacy mandates.
• Participates in professional growth (such as professional organizations coursework workshops and conferences) and other professional activities (such as school and/or District committees taskforces in-depth studies or councils). *
• Follows the policies and procedures of the school and the District. *
• Demonstrates a sense of professional responsibility such as demonstrating ethical behavior; providing accurate data and reports when needed; meeting deadlines; maintaining confidentiality; caring for the equipment and materials; and dressing appropriately and presenting a good role model. *
• Other duties as assigned.

* Denotes essential functions

(The tasks listed under the heading of Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities are examples of the variety and general nature of duties performed by employees in positions allocated to the classification. This specification should not be interpreted to describe all the duties which may be assigned to an employee at this level.)

SKILLS KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

This role requires specialized expertise in the development of adolescent literacy that extends significantly beyond the scope of early childhood or elementary reading instruction. While a foundational grounding in the science of reading is essential the successful candidate must demonstrate a proven ability to apply this knowledge specifically to older learners who have experienced prolonged academic struggles. This necessitates a distinct pedagogical skill set tailored to remediating foundational deficits within a secondary contextsuch as tackling advanced multisyllabic word study accelerating the acquisition of academic and disciplinary vocabulary and building reading fluency with complex dense syntax. We are seeking a practitioner with a demonstrated track record of leveraging diagnostic data to design age-appropriate interventions that not only close severe foundational gaps but actively restore a students academic self-efficacy ultimately equipping middle and high schoolers to confidently and independently navigate rigorous cross-curricular texts.

ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelors Degree; secondary teaching certification from Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board..

Work Experience: Experience working with students with reading writing speaking and/or listening difficulties.

Preferred Qualifications: Masters degree in Reading/Literacy or a related field.

PHYSICAL ABILITIES AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

- The Physical Abilities and Working Conditions listed in this section are representative of but are not intended to provide an exhaustive list of Physical Abilities and Working Conditions which may be required for this position. Albany County School District #1 encourages persons with disabilities who are interested in employment for this position and need reasonable accommodation of those disabilities to contact the Chief Human Resources Officer for further information.

- Vision: (which may be corrected) to read small print; view a computer screen for prolonged periods.

- Hearing: (which may be corrected) to answer telephones and tolerate exposure to noisy conditions.

- Speech: to be understood in face-to-face communications; to speak with a level of proficiency and volume to be understood over a telephone.

- Upper Body Mobility: use hands and fingers to feel grasp and manipulate small objects; manipulate fingers twist and bend at the wrist and elbow; extend arms to reach outward and upward; use hands and arms to lift objects; turn raise and lower the head.

- Strength: to lift push pull and/or carry objects which weigh as much as 5 or more pounds on a frequent basis.

- Environmental Requirements: encounter constant work interruptions; work cooperatively with others; work independently; work indoors and outdoors.

- Mental Requirements: read write understand interpret and apply information at a moderately complex level essential for successful job performance; math skills at a high school proficiency level; judgement and the ability to process information quickly; learn quickly and follow verbal procedures and standards; give verbal instruction; rank tasks in order of importance; copy compare compile and coordinate information and records.

- Additional Work Conditions and Physical Abilities: Requires travel to multiple sites.

EVALUATION

- Evaluation of this position shall be by the Principal.