The ELA Intervention Coordinator leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the elementary ELA intervention system. This role ensures that students requiring additional academic support receive high-quality ELA interventions aligned to district curriculum, assessments, and instructional priorities.
The ELA Intervention Coordinator partners with school leadership teams, ELA teachers, and the Curriculum & Instruction department to ensure strong intervention systems that include strategic student placement, consistent progress monitoring, and effective instructional supports.
This role also supports district ELA improvement efforts by helping teams analyze intervention data and measure the effectiveness of intervention strategies.
Here’s what you’ll do:
ELA Intervention System Leadership
- Lead and strengthen the district’s elementary ELA intervention system to ensure students receive targeted, effective academic support.
- Support the design and implementation of ELA intervention courses for elementary.
- Ensure intervention instruction strengthens foundational ELA skills while accelerating students toward grade-level proficiency.
- Support teachers delivering intervention courses through coaching consultation and instructional support.
- Step in to facilitate or run an intervention course when needed to ensure continuity of student support.
- Ensure strong alignment between Tier 1 instruction and intervention courses through systematic scope and sequences, assessments, feedback, and other supports
Student Placement & Progress Monitoring
- Support school leadership teams in ensuring students are appropriately placed in ELA interventions and monitored for academic growth.
- Collaborate with school leadership teams to review student data and determine intervention placement.
- Develop and support systems for ongoing progress monitoring of students in intervention courses.
- Analyze student performance data to identify trends and recommend instructional adjustments.
- Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of intervention strategies across schools.
- Attend school site MTSS meetings to provide input, support, and guidance on student placement decisions, including special education
- Hold Intervention Review Meetings with intervention teachers, leaders, or other support personnel to ensure high-quality instruction, student updates and supports needed, and placement decisions are vetted
Curriculum & Instructional Support
- Provide training and support on the ELA intervention curriculum used in elementary.
- Ensure intervention instruction aligns with district ELA standards and instructional priorities.
- Support teachers in using student work and assessment data to guide intervention instruction.
School Leadership Coaching & Alignment
- Partner with School-Based Leadership Teams (SBLT) to strengthen the implementation and alignment of ELA interventions.
- Conduct district alignment walks with SBLT teams to monitor instructional alignment and intervention implementation.
- Provide coaching consultation for school leaders regarding ELA intervention systems and student support.
- Facilitate task force discussions focused on strengthening ELA intervention practices.
Continuous Improvement & Data Cycles
- Support ELA-focused PDSA cycles that measure the effectiveness of intervention strategies.
- Track and analyze intervention data to monitor progress toward ELA improvement goals.
- Provide insights and recommendations to leadership teams based on student performance data.
Summer and After-School Intervention Planning
Support the development and planning of summer and/or after-school ELA intervention programming.
- Assist in identifying and placing students who would benefit from summer intervention.
- Monitor fidelity of interventions and progress monitoring to determine the effectiveness of interventions and additional student supports or placement changes.
- Determine curriculum needs, purchasing, training, and development
- Assist in ensuring student participation is maintained through parent outreach and events