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Job Description
The School-Based Structured Literacy Support Coach will work in an assigned school to support the Georgia Early Literacy Act and provide appropriate services to schools to ensure a cohesive, sustained, intensive and classroom-focused approach that is rigorous, engaging, and relevant for scholars. The School-Based Structured Literacy Support Coach will provide an open, professional, and collaborative work relationship with principals, other academic coaches, and K-3 teachers. They will effectively identify the needs of their school in order to prioritize, schedule, organize, and provide technical assistance so that scholars achieve grade level reading proficiency and growth by the end of 3rd grade.
Job Responsibilities:
Assist the school Principal and other leadership team members with aligning schoolwide systems, processes, and resources to structured literacy as defined by Georgia Early Literacy Act.
Assist the school leadership team with providing regular and user-friendly data reports to their respective districts and other stakeholders.
Assist K-3 teachers in addressing grade specific curriculum by developing an effective school-wide literacy plan and providing strategies for monitoring the plan’s implementation.
Collaborate with state-assigned Regional Structured Literacy Support Coaches to design and conduct professional development to meet the varied needs of K-3 teachers.
Facilitate and lead structured coaching cycles with teachers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment that includes goal setting, modeling, lesson observation, constructive feedback, and reflective discussions to enhance literacy instruction and scholar outcomes.
Provide clear, practical, timely, and candid written and oral feedback to teachers about their instruction.
Conference with teachers identified for additional support to create, implement, and monitor goals and plans for improving practice.
Meet regularly with the principal, other school-based coaches, and K-3 teachers to review data and make recommendations for adjustments in instructional practices.
Maintain an organized system for documenting coaching services.
Provide monthly reports related to the literacy components of the school improvement plan.
Meet monthly with the state assigned regional structured literacy support coach as a professional learning community to ensure consistency of services and discuss trends in needs across districts.
Attend regular training and professional learning sessions developed by the statewide structured literacy coaching coordinator.