New Instructional Leadership Specialist: Elementary Reading/English Language Arts

About the role

The Instructional Leadership Specialist collaborates with district and school leaders to facilitate and execute the district’s Strategic Plan with fidelity and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Spend 50% of their work schedule in classrooms actively engaged in modeling, coaching, co-teaching and/or demonstrating standards-based best practices.
• Spend 30% of their work schedule reviewing data, leading team meetings, presenting professional development, facilitating professional learning communities.
• Spend 20% of their work schedule instructing students.
• Lead and coach adults by:
  • Planning, implementing, and supporting rigorous standards-based instruction for all students.
  • Designing model classrooms for demonstration purposes.
  • Supporting and facilitating the planning and implementation of rigorous, standards-based lessons in response to student data.
  • Supporting educators with the implementation of technology tools and resources that enhance student-centered, standards-based instruction.
  • Accessing, analyzing, and acting on school, classroom, and individual student data in support of quality tiered standards-based instruction.
  • Facilitating professional learning communities.
  • Collaboratively designing and executing targeted school-based professional development that is in alignment with the district’s Strategic Plan.
  • Attending and actively participating in all school-based Instructional Leadership Team meetings.
  • Attending and actively participating in all applicable district-based professional development to ensure connections are made between district initiatives and the instructional goals of the school’s improvement plan.
  • Actively engaging the school community to understand how everyone contributes to the execution of the district’s Strategic Plan to collectively raise student achievement.
  • Creating a school culture of reflective practice, high expectations, and continuous learning.
  • Developing partnerships with district and building administration, families, and community to support the improvement efforts of the school.
  • Consistently modeling high expectations for the quality of instruction and ensuring accessibility for all students.
  • Developing and nurturing a culture in which staff members are reflective about their practice and use student data, current research, best-practices and theory to continuously adapt.
  • Coaching and managing teams to create, monitor, and achieve district and school-based goals.
  • Delivering constructive feedback to educators that acknowledges effective practice and provides next steps that will impact teaching and learning.

Qualifications

• Has completed a minimum of 5 years of experience working directly with students, with most of the teaching experience in the content area to which the candidate is applying.
• Has a 95% attendance rate in a historical context from the academic year 2024-2025 and the academic year 2025-2026.
• Possesses a master's degree from an accredited college or university or will possess a master's degree within 1 year (9-12 credits of completion in an approved program is the minimum for a 1-year provisional appointment contingent on completion of the degree within a year).
• Possesses a professional teaching license from the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The license should reflect the content and grade-level of the position that the candidate is seeking to obtain in either English Language Arts, Mathematics and Science.
• Overall exemplary evaluation rating from a direct supervisor is preferred. A minimum of an overall proficient rating is required. These evaluations must come from the last two current years of employment.

Skills

Expertise in impacting teacher practice, analysis and use of student data, leadership skills, implementation of student learning goals, and the instructional planning process.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.

Contact Information

If you believe, we have a place for YOU on our team! Come work for us!

About Our District: Springfield Public Schools is a cultural gem in Western Massachusetts that is committed to providing a learning environment that opens the doors of infinite possibilities to our amazing students and staff. We strive to equip each of our approximately 24,000 students with learning experiences that enhance their knowledge and critical thinking skills. We are the 3rd largest district in Massachusetts. Our district has over 44 languages spoken and over 60 countries represented by both students and staff. We foster a positive and professional environment in our schools and worksites where people feel valued, respected, supported, seen and heard. Our students and staff share their ideas and perspectives, learning from and appreciating each other. We are a district that is committed to equity and excellence.

Join a team that Empowers Educators: In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff. We let our data shape the professional development of the district, therefore, it is relevant and actionable. We support our teaching staff with mentors such as instructional leadership specialists and effective educator coaches to work with them throughout the year in lesson planning, data analysis and management. Our district offers career advancement opportunities and is invested in “Grow our Own” and educational pipeline programs. These programs help our staff achieve a college degree or lead to certification pathways.

For more information, please contact: Carmen Molina-Figueroa at molina-figueroac@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Equal Opportunity

The Springfield Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy or pregnancy related conditions, ancestry, age, disability, or military service, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.

Non-Discrimination Employment Statement

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy or pregnancy related conditions, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, or marital status. NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION: The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both. The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Jeremy Saint Laurent, Chief Legal Counsel of Legal Services, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55325, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com. Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discrimination