Literacy Coach for Gainesville Exploration Academy 2026-2027

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with school administrators to support induction teachers.
• Serve as a member of the School Leadership Team communicating progress related to literacy.
• Collaborate with teachers to deepen their understanding of content knowledge, pedagogy, and required curriculum standards through unit development and lesson planning.
• Receive evaluator training for the purpose of supporting and coaching teachers in the evaluation process.
• Demonstrate lesson planning using data and high-quality instructional materials to support teachers.
• Instructional Delivery Model: effective teaching strategies in the classroom for teachers and students to build literacy skills.
• Work with teachers to select, design, and use multiple types of assessments to improve student learning.
• Afford teachers appropriate literacy interventions based on student data and needs.
• Work closely with administrators to gather and analyze data in order to identify trends, target training and support needs, and develop goals to improve student learning.
• Work closely with teachers in completing standards-based report cards (Elementary Only).
• Create a structure for intervention time focused on meeting student literacy needs (Middle School Only).
• Work with administrators to support coaching needs of individual teachers implementing coaching cycles as needed.
• Observe teachers and provide descriptive feedback to guide their work through the evaluation process.
• Cookordinate peer observations.
• Provide prompt feedback for improving literacy instruction.

Assessment Usage and Implementation

• Collaborate with the grade level and content area teachers to analyze data and create goals in alignment with the School Improvement Plan.
• Work with teachers to select, design, and use multiple types of assessments to improve student learning.
• Afford teachers appropriate literacy interventions based on student data and needs.
• Work closely with administrators to gather and analyze data in order to identify trends, target training and support needs, and develop goals to improve student learning.
• Work closely with teachers in completing standards-based report cards (Elementary Only).
• Create a structure for intervention time focused on meeting student literacy needs (Middle School Only).

Learning Environment

• Work with administrators to support coaching needs of individual teachers implementing coaching cycles as needed.
• Observe teachers and provide descriptive feedback to guide their work through the evaluation process.
• Cookordinate peer observations.
• Provide prompt feedback for improving literacy instruction.

Professionalism and Communication

• Initial and ongoing mentor and coach training.
• Documentation of meetings with teachers, training of mentors, and evaluation of program effectiveness.
• Stay current on research-based practices and instructional strategies by reading professional literature, reviewing new materials and exemplary programs, and participating in local, state, and national professional learning.

Required Qualifications

• Valid Georgia Professional Certificate in assigned teaching field.
• Proven experience as an exceptional teacher in the elementary classroom.
• Proven literacy growth in K-5 data related teaching or coaching (Middle School).
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Leadership Certificate preferred; not required.
• Willingness to work before, during, and after school hours.

Physical Demands

• Routine physical activities associated with typical office setting.
• Ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling and repetitive fine motor activities.
• Vision, hearing and verbal communications are essential functions of this position.