Actively analyze student achievement and language proficiency data to drive strategic instructional decisions.
Maintain updated data, progress monitoring dashboards, and rosters.
With a team of SLs and ML experts, the ESL Specialist performs 6-week data analyses and produces 6-week action plans that correspond with Rocketship's other formative assessment cycle
Conduct a deep-dive analysis of formative and summative data, then report the outcomes and action steps to teachers and school leaders on professional development days.
Instruction
Implement language development curriculum that instructs students to achieve excellence in speaking, listening, writing, and reading.
Support students in meeting their weekly Lexia English goals to supplement the language development
Collaboration with Instructional Staff
Participate in Unit Planning meetings with classroom teachers to ensure Universal Strategies and other targeted language development strategies are implemented into the unit and daily lesson plans, including but no limited to instructional, management, and assessment strategies to meet the diverse needs of students
Assist teachers with the implementation of Universal Strategies and/or targeted language development strategies in the classroom
Design and/or execute school-based professional development that builds educators’ capacity to improve our academic and language development support of students who are ELLs
Community
Partner with families by reporting progress to families on a 6-8 week basis and hosting community events/ community meetings.
- Assist with non-instructional supervision of students, such as arrival/dismissal, hallway monitoring, substitute teaching, lunch and playground duty, or supervision of extracurricular activities
- Required Qualifications
- Commitment to Rocketship's mission, vision, and goals
Previous experience managing and/or teaching groups of elementary-age students is strongly preferred
Basic computer skills including troubleshooting and an ability to communicate about technical difficulties
Fluency in English
Fluency in Spanish (preferred)
Bachelor's Degree
WI Elementary K-6 teaching credential or a full credential to transfer in from out of state
English as a Second Language K-12 Endorsement (to be ESL Specialist)
