POSITION TITLE: ARI Reading Specialist

RESPONSIBLE TO: Superintendent of Education

REPORTS TO: Principal

JOB GOAL:
To improve teacher practice so that all students are reading on or above grade level by third grade.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Coaching teachers in classrooms each day during reading instruction.
2. Equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to help third grade students achieve grade-level reading or above.
3. Working side by side with teachers to successfully implement lessons so that all students are reading on or above grade level by third grade.
4. Providing daily, targeted intervention to struggling third grade students.
5. Collaborating with administrators and third grade teachers to analyze and to utilize formative data that will inform instructional decisions/practices to change student performance trajectories.
6. Implementing district reading plans and the 2015 Revised Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts.
7. Implementing Alabama's Plan 2020.

Support Alabama's Professionals

• Adhere consistently to an LEA-/ARl-approved schedule that includes time in pre-planned, daily coaching cycles with teachers and daily intervention instruction with at least one group of struggling readers so that reading goals are achieved.
• Demonstrate increasing expertise in research-based reading instruction appropriate to Grade K-3 Foundations, Reading, Speaking & Listening, and Writing Standards in order to impact the goal of students performing at or above grade level in reading by the end of third grade.
• Plan and/or facilitate professional learning opportunities that will assist teachers in: targeting student reading deficits; facilitating professional conversations; fostering student engagement; assessing student learning; reflecting on professional practice; or identifying next learning steps in order to achieve state, district, and school third grade reading goals.
• Participate actively and cooperatively in all ARI regional support visits and trainings in order to meet agreed-upon personal outcomes and all school-, state-, and district-established reading goals for third grade. Actively seek help and support to grow in knowledge, skills, and expertise in reading.
• Model exemplary work ethic by actively coaching teachers, teaching struggling readers, and participating as a fully functioning member of the school staff daily so that teacher capacity is built and efficacy is achieved.

Support Alabama's Learners

• Coach teachers in instruction of students for all tiers of reading in order to reach the goal of students performing at or above grade level in reading by the end of third grade.
• Assist school administrators and teachers in analyzing and utilizing assessment data in all tiers of reading instruction and making decisions that will increase the reading skills in students in Grades K-3 so that the goal of students performing at or above grade level in reading by the end of third grade is achieved.
• Assist school administrators and teachers in implementing, strengthening, supporting, and organizing reading instruction and reading intervention efforts so that third grade reading data will dramatically improve.
• Reflect on personal coaching practices to evaluate personal impact on changing outcomes for third grade students in grade-level reading achievement goals.

Support Alabama's Schools and Systems

• Motivate teachers to achieve the goal of all students reading on grade level by the end of third grade in order to build teacher capacity and efficacy related to reading outcomes.
• Exhibit winsome human relations skills that will encourage professionals toward continuous growth in their own learning and challenge students toward ever-increasing levels of academic achievement.
• Plan regularly with school, district, and regional support staff and ALSDE staff in order to reach goal of all students reading on grade level by third grade.

8. Other duties assigned by the LEA