JOB DESCRIPTION:
About The Role: Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We are especially
committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.
The Multilingual Education Specialist plays a central role to support the school in fulfilling the KIPP Texas’ mission by directly impacting the academic and linguistic success of all Multilingual Learners. The Multilingual Education Specialist is a campus leader who supports the administration of the multilingual program, leading both instructional coaching on sheltered instruction pedagogy and monitoring compliance for all EBs on their campus.
The Multilingual Education Specialist leads professional development of teachers regarding English Language Development (ELD), linguistic accommodations, and instructional practices for emergent bilingual students The Multilingual Education Specialist also provides ESL instruction with small groups of newcomer/beginner students for 1-2 class periods per day. The Multilingual Education Specialist also is responsible for communicating with parents of emergent bilingual students and planning Title III parent, family, and community events.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Sheltered Instruction Coach
● Use campus data to identify and prioritize courses and teachers to improve EB academic achievement
● Lead ML professional learning for teachers and school staff. This will come in the form of sheltered instruction coaching cycles, leading content team meetings, lesson internalizations, data meetings, and campus-wide professional development.
● Monitor progress of teachers' use of content-based language instruction strategies.
● Highlight best linguistic practices across grade levels.
● Enhance ML program hiring practices and support ESL paraprofessionals and Bilingual/ESL teacher retention
Multilingual Case Manager
● Responsible for completing BOY, MOY, and EOY LPACs and related activities on time with fidelity and validity.
● Responsible for the planning and campus-wide execution of TELPAS and TELPAS ALT.
● Build strong relationships with all emergent bilingual (EB) students across the campus.
● Teach 1-2 English Language Development and Acquisition (ELDA) courses to newcomers, beginners, and intermediates.
● Monitor usage and growth on Summit K12 for all EBs on campus.
● Facilitate specific EB Title III events with parents, families and the community to foster welcoming school culture.