ELSA - Multilingual Learner Summer Academy: Coordinator, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA SY2025-2026

ELSA - Multilingual Learner Summer Academy: Coordinator, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA SY2025-2026

About Salem Public Schools, where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4,000 students in 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged, globally connected, and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging, equity, and opportunity in everything we do. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students, regardless of ability, economic status, gender/gender identity, language, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other backgrounds. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at https://salemk12.org/.

What You’ll Do:

As a program coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of ELSA (Multilingual Learner Summer Program). This will include conducting outreach to families and enrolling students in the program, organizing bus transportation, setting up classrooms and the daily schedule of the program, ordering supplies, organizing field trips, communicating with ELSA teachers about program needs, and other duties as needed.

Role Responsibilities:

• Program Coordination

• Create and disseminate information about the ELSA summer program to students and families, ensure the enrollment of approximately 40 multilingual learners
• Organize bus transportation for ELSA with students’ families
• Create a daily program schedule for classes, secure and organize classrooms for the program
• Communicate with teachers about the program, order supplies and meet other program needs that may arise, including student discipline and family communication
• Oversee the successful day-to-day operations of the ELSA summer program
• Collect and analyze data to improve instruction and the quality of collections.
• Additional duties as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic, caring relationships with colleagues, students, and families – You build strong relationships across students, families, and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from mistakes and challenges and uses them as opportunities for professional development. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree Required; Master’s Degree preferred
• Required Massachusetts teaching certification/licensure in ESL, either preK-6 or 5-12
• Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement required
• Ability to meet the expectations of the Massachusetts Standards and Indicators of Effective Teaching Practice
• Second Language (Spanish) Proficiency a plus
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.