Location: TBD Cost Center: Office of Secondary Schools Hours Per Day: 7.5 Contract Months: 10 Days Posted: 3 Posting Closing Time: 4:30 PM Cutoff date for Internal qualified candidates to be guaranteed an interview: 04/08/2026 Require Test: No High School Diploma/Equivalent: Yes Salary Schedules: Salary Schedules LITERACY COACH K-12 SALARY SCHEDULE: INSTRUCTIONAL COST CENTER: OFFICE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS 9004 MINIMUMQUALIFICATIONS: Minimum of three years classroom teaching experience in Language Arts and/orReadingand/orEnglish, and/orElementaryEducation Possession of or eligible for a validregularFlorida teaching certificate Bachelors or Master'sdegree from anaccreditedcollege oruniversity Certification inReading orReading Endorsement Passed DistrictInstructionalScreening Process KNOWLEDGE,SKILLS,AND ABILITIES: Abilitytoworkwithadministrators,faculties,district staff,students, and families. Ability toprepare and deliverprofessional learning,presentations,and workshops tovaryingaudiences, including content area teachers and administrators. Abilitytoprovidecoaching and job-embedded classroom learningexperiencesto support and developteachers. Ability to modelevidence-based strategies to adult learners in various settings (e.g.,workshops, blendedlearning courses, professional learning communities, webinars, etc.).
Ability to provide intensive,high-impact interventions based on advanced progress monitoring data tostudents utilizing a variety of delivery models. Exhibits specializedknowledgeofscientificallybasedreadingresearch,evidence-based best practices,English Language Artsstandards, and how to work with educators as adult learners. Demonstrate specialized expertise in high-quality reading instructional pedagogy and andragogy. Abilitytoanalyzedataanduseittoinformsupport, decisions, response plans,and interventions for studentsand teachers.
Skillful collaborator, evidenced by excellent oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills,conflict resolution strategies, stress management, planning and organizational skills, and problem-solvingmethods. Ability to be flexible, work independently, efficiently manage time, and continue personal growth. REPORTS TO: Director of High School Curriculum JOB OBJECTIVE: TheLiteracyCoach (K-5, 6-8, 9-12) will directinstructional services related to literacy forallstudents and providedirect supportto teachers implementing thedistrict'sK-12 Comprehensive Research-based Reading Plan at theschool level. TheLiteracyCoachis pivotalinleading teachers andadministrators in advancingteacher practice andstudentperformance inliteracy.
The goal is to support teachers in deliveringhigh-quality core instruction with aligned tieredsupports,improvingstudent performanceoutcomes. SUPERVISES: N/A PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES: The coach providescollegial,job-embeddedsupport to implementdata-informedandstudent-centered high-qualityliteracyinstruction. Coaches accomplish this by collaborating with leaders and teachers, engaging inco-teaching, common planning, modeling, reflective conversations, and data sessionsto build teacher andschool capacity to improve achievement. Provide professional learning on the major reading components, as needed, based onanalyzingstudentperformance data.
Administer and analyze instructional assessments and providedifferentiated instruction and intensiveinterventions. Supportschools in developing and implementing their School Improvement Plan, school-basedRtIPlan, andother schoolwideactionplans. The Literacy Coach will provide targeted students with interventions through various delivery modelsaligned to the science of reading and advanced progress monitoring data. Model effective instructional strategies for teachers in whole andsmall-groupinstruction.
Collect and use data on instructional practices to inform and implement professional learning activities. Work with teachers to ensure that evidence-based reading strategies and programs grounded in the scienceof reading are implemented with fidelity. Leadliteracy leadership teams, PLCs CPT, andprofessional learning sessions based on the needs of theschool site. Continue to grow professionally to increase knowledge of and ability to apply effective pedagogy andandragogy.
Prioritize time to teachers, activities, and roles that willimpactstudent achievement in reading, includingcoaching and mentoring teachers daily. Work with school leadership to plan and implement a consistent program of improving reading achievementusing evidence-based strategies that demonstrate a statistically significant effect on improving studentoutcomes. Participates in job-embedded Literacy Coach Endorsement Coursework (completed bythe end of thesecondyear in
