Professional Learning Specialist (PLS)

Douglas County School District • Castle Rock, CO

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About The Position

Under the direction of the Principal and/or Assistant Principal, acts as a professional learning coordinator, mentor/coach, facilitator, and member of the leadership team. Acts as a resource for the professional development of teachers. May facilitate various aspects of teacher induction. Develops and promotes good community relations among various community members and school clientele. This position would support staff in a coaching model around instructional strategies, planning support, professional development, and everything in between. Ideally, this person would have expertise in EL or in very similar structures as well as in PD facilitation, and coaching of teachers. Renaissance Elementary Magnet School has specialized programing different from many neighboring schools: We are an EL Education School and strive to provide students with meaningful, cross content experiences in their learning created by teachers. We have early release for students each Wednesday to provide time for professional development and deep planning for all staff. As part of our Adventure Education program, classroom teachers accompany their students on two overnight, multiple day voyages each school year. These are supported and facilitated by our Adventure Education Coordinator, but require significant teacher involvement. Please see our staff voyage agreements HERE. We also operate on a modified calendar. See HERE. We operate on an extended school day: 8:15 - 4:15. Please visit our website https://rems.dcsdk12.org/ for more info about our school.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• expertise in EL or in very similar structures as well as in PD facilitation, and coaching of teachers

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Lead school initiatives
• Collaborate with leadership to build World Class Education opportunities for staff
• Work with principal to create Unified Improvement Plan and Professional Development Plan
• Backward Plan, implement, evaluate and support professional development to support Site
• 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

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
• paid sick and personal time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time