Educational Consultant, Early Literacy

The Landmark School Outreach Program seeks an experienced educational leader to join the School and District Partnerships team. Outreach is seeking a candidate who has deep knowledge of the science of reading and aligned, high-quality instructional materials. This educational consultant will join a team of eight consultants.

These eight consultants partner with districts to create language-based programs for students formally identified with specific learning disabilities in reading or writing. In a language-based program, all teachers collaborate to create consistency of instruction through the use of common language and common instructional practices that explicitly address language goals and objectives, as well as the development of executive function. As consultants support the creation of language-based programs, they provide classroom observations and feedback, create and facilitate small group workshops, model lessons, support school or district administrators, share current evidence-based strategies, and assist with implementation plans.

For this consultant role, Outreach is seeking a candidate with knowledge of Tier I and Tier II literacy interventions in grades PK to 3. While this candidate will primarily support language-based programming (Tier 3 and special education), Outreach also supports early literacy services across all tiers of instruction in grades PK to 3.

Consultants typically travel to school and district partner sites in person and are onsite for the full school day, five to six hours. Typically, consultants are onsite in schools three to four days a week during the school year with the fifth day reserved for scheduling and planning.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with administrators, specialists, and teachers in different schools and districts.
• Ability to strategically guide the development of and expand a district partnership over at least three years with the responsibility.
• Informally observe lessons and provide feedback (non-evaluative) for a teacher’s professional growth and students’ success.
• Provide job-embedded informal professional learning beyond the coaching responsibility. Develop staff members’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors through professional development on a variety of topics.
• Develop and facilitate professional development workshops (in person and remote), as needed, for leaders and teachers.
• Submit monthly coaching and professional development hours, mileage reports, and other pertinent data/documentation.
• Teach a 5-day graduate course each July.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in special education, reading, or another education-related field (e.g. speech-language pathology).
• At least 10 years of successful special education teaching and/or special education administrative experience is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience teaching reading at the elementary level and/or to struggling adolescent readers is strongly preferred.
• A minimum of two years of teaching experience at Landmark School is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and facilitate effective presentations, both in-person and virtually.
• Preference will be given to candidates with a deep understanding of informal (e.g., aimswebPlus, teacher-generated assessments) and formal (e.g. CTOPP-2, WIAT-III, KTEA-3, GORT-5) literacy assessments.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills, including giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Demonstrated knowledge of specific learning disabilities, reading and ELA assessments, and reading intervention programs.
• Willing to travel, including to remote locations, when travel conditions are safe.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite is a plus.