Reading Specialist

BASIS Charter Schools offers an incredible opportunity to be deeply involved in an academic community that is dynamic, exciting and unpredictable. You’ll join others in a highly social, supportive and collaborative environment at a brand-new campus that opened in August 2021.

Responsibilities

• Support, supplement, and extend classroom teaching, and work collaboratively to implement a quality reading program that is research-based and meets the needs of students.
• Support teachers in analyzing and understanding the results of various assessment tools.
• Plan and collaborate with K-4 teachers to design and implement engaging instruction that leads to reading fluency and comprehension in all content areas.
• Attend weekly planning sessions with classroom teachers to identify students in need of differentiated instruction.
• Suggest accommodations and appropriate lesson structures to support identified students needing intensive intervention.
• Provide intervention support to ensure comprehension and fluency in K-5 classrooms.
• Conduct, organize, and analyze on-going assessments of student performance using multiple assessment tools.
• Model best teaching practices for teachers with the goal of developing their capacity to support differentiation and classroom accommodations.
• Meet regularly with administration and other professionals to discuss student progress.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences as needed.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree with a major (or 24+ credit hours) in the teaching subject; Advanced degree preferred.
• Valid fingerprint clearance and/or satisfactory applicable state background check.
• Must possess the required credentials to teach in your home country or state which may include a Bachelor's degree and documentation of passage of a state authorized subject test in the teaching subject.
• Minimum of 2 years of teaching experience.

Qualifications

• Specialized knowledge of assessment and diagnosis that is vital for developing, implementing, and evaluating the literacy program in general, and in designing instruction for individual students.
• Subject matter postgraduate work (Master's or Ph.D.) is preferred or a combination of subject matter undergraduate degree with a Master’s in Education.
• High level of educational attainment, strong communication skills in teaching ideas, texts, and concepts with precision and confidence.
• High GPA in major, excellent recommendations, experience working with children, and openness to new ideas in teaching.

About BASIS Ed

The BASIS academic program is consistently ranked among the top 10 programs nationally and is competitive on an international scale. The mission of BASIS Schools is to provide an academically excellent and rigorous liberal arts college preparatory education to all Lower and Upper School students.

Benefits

• Employer paid medical and dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• PTO
• Ability to add dependents
• 401k with partial match that grows over time
• Employee Assistance Program
• Childcare Savings Opportunity (KinderCare tuition discount)

Pay

Salary for this position is competitive and dependent on education and experience.