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Rocketship Public Schools · 2 months ago

Multilingual Specialist

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$54K/yr - $75K/yr

Rocketship Public Schools is a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools dedicated to transforming the future for underserved communities. The Multilingual Specialist will ensure that emerging bilingual students achieve their language, literacy, and learning goals through targeted instruction and collaboration with teachers.

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Responsibilities

Serve as test coordinator and proctor for the WIDA Screener, WIDA Model, and ACCESS for ELLS assessment, including the administration of testing accommodations

Actively analyze student achievement and language proficiency data to drive strategic instructional decisions

Maintain updated data, progress monitoring dashboards, and rosters

With a team of SLs and ML experts, the ESL Specialist performs 6-week data analyses and produces 6-week action plans that correspond with Rocketship's other formative assessment cycle

Conduct a deep-dive analysis of formative and summative data, then report the outcomes and action steps to teachers and school leaders on professional development days

Implement language development curriculum that instructs students to achieve excellence in speaking, listening, writing, and reading

Support students in meeting their weekly Lexia English goals to supplement the language development

Participate in Unit Planning meetings with classroom teachers to ensure Universal Strategies and other targeted language development strategies are implemented into the unit and daily lesson plans, including but no limited to instructional, management, and assessment strategies to meet the diverse needs of students

Assist teachers with the implementation of Universal Strategies and/or targeted language development strategies in the classroom

Design and/or execute school-based professional development that builds educators’ capacity to improve our academic and language development support of students who are ELLs

Partner with families by reporting progress to families on a 6-8 week basis and hosting community events/ community meetings

Assist with non-instructional supervision of students, such as arrival/dismissal, hallway monitoring, substitute teaching, lunch and playground duty, or supervision of extracurricular activities

Qualification

WI Elementary K-6 teaching credentialFluency in SpanishEnglish as a Second Language K-12 EndorsementData analysisLanguage development curriculumBasic computer skillsCollaboration with teachersCommunity engagement