Reading Interventionist

The Reading Interventionist plays an essential role in helping students reach grade level performance as effectively and efficiently as possible. An expert in literacy and math instruction, the interventionist understands how to accelerate student learning in an intentional and individualized way. An organized individual, the Interventionist Teacher uses data to guide instruction and keeps detailed records to monitor the success of the intervention. The Interventionist Teacher must demonstrate effective collaboration skills and comfort in working with different groups of professional colleagues.

This position reports to the program principal.

Duties:

Build a Positive Community

• Support a safe, caring classroom community built upon principles and practices that embrace a trauma-informed, actively anti-racist approach.
• Support daily community-building circles as needed based on schedule and needs.
• Establish clear and predictable routines and procedures to ensure students are safe and productive.
• Provide appropriate support, reteaching, and self-regulation opportunities to help students demonstrate successful school behavior.
• Build individual relationships with students and families. Ensure students in intervention groups feel safe and loved.
• Provide regular opportunities for joy

Teaching and Learning

• Design and deliver individualized lessons based on the Minnesota State Standards, intervention curriculum, and Student Intervention Team (SIT) recommendations.
• Assign rigorous, engaging, and differentiated work to ensure each student receives appropriate support and challenges.
• Provide content-specific formative and summative assessment opportunities to monitor student mastery of content. Adapt instruction based on assessment results.
• Teach content embracing a critical race theory approach. Ensure content provides an honest reckoning of the American story with its racist past and present.
• Implement accommodations and modifications for students as required by the intervention team or by IEP.
• Include students in setting goals for their learning. Assist students in tracking their individual progress towards goal completion.

Planning/Preparation

• Create and prepare daily lesson plans for appropriate age and learning skill level, making adjustments when needed. Files should be uploaded to a shared team file.
• Design interventions to ensure students engage deeply with diverse, representative texts and materials
• Create and/or print out instructional material for classroom use
• Keep records of student progress towards mastery of each standard. This may include keeping a grade book, collecting artifacts of student work that demonstrate mastery, etc.
• When using a formal intervention curriculum, plan and teach intervention to fidelity.
• Collect and review data regularly to monitor progress towards meeting intervention goals.

Collaboration/Professional Responsibilities

• Attend weekly SIT meetings and report on student progress towards mastery.
• Advocate for students to adjust current intervention, maintain current intervention, or refer to the Special Education team for a SPED evaluation.
• Prepare for and participate in weekly Professional Learning Community (PLC) meetings.
• Collaborate with school support staff including dean of students, school social workers, family liaisons, and administration to develop appropriate supports for students and families.
• Be an active participant in the school community by engaging committees and attending events
• Participate in ongoing professional learning and stay up to date with current teaching methods, practices and any new knowledge in your field
• Acquire and maintain required licensure to teach in your age and subject area
• Attend parent/teacher conferences as needed
• Actively participate in and successfully fulfill the required steps of the teacher evaluation process.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

License/Certification:

• MN Teaching License (Required)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $42,000.00 - $83,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Saint Paul, MN 55103 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $42,000 - $83,000