Spec Instructional Pool - SY 2024-2025

Description

Job Title:

SPEC - INSTRUCTIONAL

Revision Date:

February 5, 2021

Job Code:

83010

FLSA:

Exempt

Salary Plan:

Certificated

Revised By:

Kathryn Pattullo

Pay Grade:

Certificated, BA

Comp Reviewed By:

Lisa Spencer

Funding Source:

Work Location:

Local

(3) Budgeted and works in schools

Duration: # of months

10 months

Job Summary (2-3 sentences describing job purpose): At the direction of the principal and in collaboration with the Department of MTSS, the role of the Instructional Specialist is to provide and facilitate skills-based literacy and/or math interventions and other academic supports for students in compliance with the TN RTI2 framework and implemented through the MNPS Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework. The Instructional Specialist collaborates regularly with other educators to utilize data-based decision-making to meet the needs of individual students.

Reports to: School principal

Department Name: Various Schools

Primary Job Duties/Responsibilities: List, in the order of importance or time spent, the essential duties/tasks performed by the position. This is not an exhaustive list and employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.

Job Duty/Resp. 1:

INSTRUCTION: Provides targeted skills-based literacy and/or math intervention to individuals and small groups of students using district-approved intervention curriculum and resources; Collaborates regularly with classroom teachers and other appropriate personnel to plan, implement, and adjust instruction along a continuum of increasing intensity based on student needs as identified through multiple sources of data, including ongoing assessment.

Job Duty/Resp. 2:

ASSESSMENT: Serves on (and may lead) the School-wide Assessment Team to implement all steps of the MTSS Screening Process; Conducts regular progress monitoring in compliance with the state RTI2 framework and MNPS MTSS guidance and procedures; Conducts ongoing formative assessment for instruction

Job Duty/Resp. 3:

DATA-BASED DECISION-MAKING: Participates in (and may co-facilitate) all MTSS Data Team meetings and other MTSS team meetings (MTSS Leadership Team, MTSS-B Team, S-Team) as needed; Collaborates with school and district staff to analyze and integrate multiple sources of data across the areas of literacy, math, SEL/behavior, and attendance to meet the needs of each learner.

Job Duty/Resp. 4:

DATA COLLECTION & DOCUMENTATION: Collaborates with other school personnel to fulfill the requirements of the state RTII framework and the dyslexia law through the implementation of systems and processes for documentation (e.g. use of the RTI module in Infinite Campus), reporting (e.g., state reporting for dyslexia) , and communication with families (e.g., intervention placement and progress letters); Contributes to collaborative data-based decision-making through the maintenance and sharing of accurate and up-to-date records of students' services and progress

Job Duty/Resp. 5:

PROFESSSIONAL LEARNING: Attends regular, district-provided professional development sessions throughout the school year.

Education and Experience Requirements

Education (training/degree): Required minimum: Bachelor's degree in education

Experience Requirements: 3 years preferred of successful literacy and/or math teaching experience; experience in delivering skills-based literacy and/or math interventions preferred

Licenses, Certifications or Registrations Required: Certificated teaching license in TN

Skills Required: Strong content knowledge in literacy and/or mathematics; ability to implement effective explicit, systematic instruction; data analysis skills; growth mindset; professional collaboration and problem-solving skills

General Skills, Responsibilities, Requirements, and Impacts

Data Responsibility:

Level 5: Coordinates or determines time, place, or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data and possibly executes determinations or reports on events.

People Responsibility:

Level 5: Persuades or influences others in favor of a service, course of action, or point of view

Assets Responsibility:

Level 5: Requires responsibility for achieving major economies or preventing major losses through the management of a large department.

Communications Requirements:

Level 6: Reads professional publications; composes complex reports and manuals; speaks formally to small groups within and outside the organization.

Complexity of Work:

Level 7: Performs work involving the application of broad principles of professional management and leadership to solve new problems for which conventional solutions do not exist; requires sustained, intense concentration for accurate results.

Impact of Decisions:

Level 4: Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.

Equipment Usage (if applicable):

N/A

Safety of Others:

Level 3: Requires responsibility for the safety and health of others and for occasional enforcement of the laws and standards of public health and safety.

Kronos Set Up Data:

Meal Deduction - Most Bransford office and district level employee have a meal deduction. They are scheduled 8.5 hours per day and get an hour lunch. Itinerants and retirees get a 30 minute lunch period and therefore do not have a meal deduction. All school based employees will not have a meal deduction. No Meal Deduction

Travel - Itinerant non-exempt employees who travel will be using the time clock differently than others and are paid for travel time between work locations. Employee does not or seldom travels

Compensatory Time vs. Overtime (Support Non-Exempt Employees only) - Does this department have overtime budgeted, i.e. Maintenance, Transportation, Food Service. If not, employees accrue comp time only. Exempt Employee - can not accrue comp or overtime

Restrictions - Should employee be restricted to punch in and out within 7 minutes of their schedule start and end times? No, Do not restrict punches

Employee Type - Clock, phone, supervisor, etc. Time Stamp

Timekeeper - Is the employee a timekeeper? No

ADA Requirements/Compliance

Physical Demands:

Level 2: Requires sedentary work involving standing or walking for brief periods, exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a regular basis; and some dexterity in operating machines, tools, or office equipment.

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Unavoidable Hazards:

Level 1: The position is exposed to no unusual environmental hazards

Sensory Requirements:

Level 2: The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, sense of smell, depth perception, and texture perception.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires MNPS to provide adequate accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.