ESL Program Supervisor - DCS

SUMMARY:

• Provides leadership, supervision, guidance, and support for the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program and related activities while implementing and maintaining services within established guidelines and standards; developing goals and long-range plans; and monitoring the educational progress of English Language Learners (ELL).

REPORTS TO:

• Superintendent or Superintendent's Designee(s)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides system-wide leadership for PreK-12 ELL instructional, curricular, and professional development initiatives.
• Oversees data collection and analysis for planning, scheduling, and leads in the use of language proficiency data with state level assessment and achievement data to improve the overall academic performance of English Language Learners.
• Facilitates the design and implementation of a strategic five-year plan for English language acquisition.
• Conducts policy analysis and policy development related to English Language Learners (ELL) and ELL curriculum and instruction.
• Implements a comprehensive program for increasing English language acquisition and academic achievement for all English Language Learners.
• Collaborates with universities and colleges to expand and maintain programs related to English language acquisition.
• Collaborates with school system administrators to integrate effective language acquisition instruction into all classrooms.
• Implements a professional development plan to provide culturally responsive instruction to all students.
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, and school system policies and regulations.
• Supervises staff and completes evaluation of certified/non-certified staff and program effectiveness.
• Interacts with system-level administrators/supervisors and parents, as appropriate, to meet the needs of all English Language Learners
• Oversees the school system budget assigned to the English as a Second Language Program, including developing and monitoring assigned budgets ( i.e. Title III).
• Represents the school system at local, state, and national meetings/conferences.
• Possesses a sense of vision and communicates it effectively, involves others in accomplishing goals and solving problems, and interacts with diverse groups successfully.
• Demonstrates success incorporating culturally-competent strategies and utilizing culturally-responsive communication and engagement strategies with all members of the school community.
• Maintains satisfactory, harmonious working relationships with the public, students, and employees.
• Coordinates state and federal compliance reviews.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs other duties as assigned or requested by the Superintendent and/or Deputy Superintendent(s).

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

• 12 Month Contract

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• At a minimum a Master's Degree in a job related area.
• Five years ELL teaching experience or related supervisory experience in leading an ESL program.
• Job related experience with increasing levels of responsibility is required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Demonstrate experience with and knowledge of crisis management policies and procedures.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, staff, students, law enforcement, parents and community/governmental agencies.
• Ability to carry out job responsibilities and handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.
• Proficient in handling problems, concerns and emotional distress with sensitivity and tact.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Demonstrate experience with and knowledge of crisis management policies and procedures.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, staff, students, law enforcement, parents and community/governmental agencies.
• Ability to carry out job responsibilities and handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.
• Proficient in handling problems, concerns and emotional distress with sensitivity and tact.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS:

• Preferred: Instructional Leadership Certification/Administrative Certification (Alabama)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk and hear.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy objects and infrequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

SALARY:

• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.
• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:
  
  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP
  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed
  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted
  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year
  • Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule
  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department
• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned, even if the degree is outside education. The degree must be verified on an official transcript & recognized by the Alabama State Department of Education.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at (256) 552-3000.