Professional Learning Specialist (PLS)

Responsibilities

• Mentor/Coach
• Create personalized induction opportunities
• Provide support for inductees
• Ongoing mentoring of all teachers
• Model, co-teach, and Cognitive Coach teachers
• Create Differentiated Induction Plans for inductees
• Support staff in attaining goals
• Facilitate data analysis opportunities
• 21st Century Skills Leader
• Facilitate team, school or feeder meetings to enhance shared responsibility when appropriate
• Provide ongoing training to facilitate meaningful Learning Community Work
• Enhance dialogue opportunities while building professional community
• Facilitate the creation of a supportive, restorative, and inclusive building culture
• Professional Learning Coordinator
• Coordinate, plan, implement and evaluate professional development aligned with DCSD PD Standards
• Arrange peer observations
• Lesson Study Design
• Facilitate and coordinate Professional Learning Communities
• Train mentors, departmentment heads and teacher leaders
• Implement job embedded professional learning
• Evaluate and provide high quality resources
• Liaison between district and site

Requirements

• Teaching License - Colorado Department of Education
• Bachelor's Degree (Required)

Qualifications

Position Type: Regular

Primary Location: Pioneer Elementary

Scheduled Hours Per Week: 40 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) 1.00

Approx Scheduled Days Per Year: 200 Work Days

Full Salary Range: $56,366.00 USD - $119,121.00 USD

Annual Position Salary Schedule Eligibility: Hard to Hire Licensed position salaries are set based on one of three salary schedules; General, Hard to Hire, and Specialist/Extremely Hard to Hire.

DCSD will award up to 7 years of previous licensed teaching experience at the time of hire.

Click HERE to view the current DCSD Licensed Salary Schedules*

*All salary amounts listed on the schedules are based on a full-time (1.0) FTE. If applicable, part-time salaries will be prorated according to the assigned FTE.

Benefits

• Health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options

Pay

Hard to Hire Licensed position salaries are set based on one of three salary schedules; General, Hard to Hire, and Specialist/Extremely Hard to Hire.

Schedule

This position is eligible for paid sick and personal time.