2025-2026 Temporary Certified Secondary ML Teacher 1.0

Purpose

The role of a Multilingual Teacher is to support students in language development and academic achievement by providing targeted services that address social, emotional, and environmental factors impacting learning. Working collaboratively with students, staff, families, and the professional community, the teacher promotes positive growth through the application of specialized skills and strategies.

 Responsibilities

• Provides instruction and activities for ML students in the areas of literacy
• Planning, preparing, delivering, and evaluating ML lessons for large and small groups and individuals
• Working together with counselors, teachers, specialists, students, and parents to ensure student growth in the ELD standards. 
• Monitoring ML student progress in pull-out as well as push-in models
• Designing and producing teaching materials/curriculum and adapting existing materials/curriculum for the ML Program as well as other subject areas
• Training teachers to serve students using Language Acquisition Strategies from an assets-based approach
• Involving parents through parent nights and bilingual/migrant community outreach programs
• Engaging in continuing professional development on Language Acquisition
• Following the Ellensburg School District ML Plan and help adjust this plan where needed
• Assessing ML student progress through WIDA testing and District benchmark testing
• Monitoring progress of exited ML students

Educational/Vocational Preparation Occupational Certificates/Licenses

• Washington State Teaching Certificate with ELL K – 12 Endorsement 
• Must qualify to work in the proximity of children under the conditions of a WSP/FBI background check
• Completion of GLAD and/or SIOP  Training preferred

Required/Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bilingual / bi-literate in Spanish and English preferred
• Teaching experience in an ML classroom setting preferred 
• Secondary Teaching classroom experience preferred

Acknowledgment

This Job description is intended to provide an overview of the requirements of the position. As such, it is not necessarily all-inclusive, and the job may require other essential and/or nonessential functions, tasks, duties, or responsibilities not listed herein. The District reserves the right to add, modify, or exclude any essential or nonessential requirement at any time with or without notice. Nothing in this job description, nor by the completion of any requirement of the job by the employee, is intended to create a contract of employment of any type. 

Applicants interested must follow the application procedures carefully.  Consideration will only be given to fully completed application files. Minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

BENEFITS:                 

Health insurance benefits for employees working 630 hours or more per year include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability plans through the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB).

School employees | Washington State Health Care Authority 

Retirement benefits provided through the WA State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS).

State of Washington: Department of Retirement Systems

 Full time positions are 7 hours per day for 180 days

180 Day Employees - Paid leave benefits to include 12 days of sick leave and two personal leave days 

Ellensburg School District encourages workforce diversity and complies with all state and federal laws prohibiting unlawful discrimination.

BENEFITS:                 

• Health insurance benefits for employees working 630 hours or more per year include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability plans through the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB).
• School employees | Washington State Health Care Authority
• Retirement benefits provided through the WA State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS).
• State of Washington: Department of Retirement Systems

• Full time positions are 7 hours per day for 180 days
• 180 Day Employees - Paid leave benefits to include 12 days of sick leave and  two personal leave days 
• Salary based on the current EEA salary schedule

Ellensburg School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Title IX Coordinator and and Section 504 Coordinator,Rhonda Schmidt, 509-925-8011, Rhonda.Schmidt@esd401.org ; Civil Rights Coordinator, 509-925-8007, Alexis.Haberman@esd401.org 1300 East Third Avenue, Ellensburg, WA 98926.

Salary : $52,805 - $106,058