Secondary Schools Literacy Coach 10M Grant-Funded na St. Mary's County Public Schools

Release Date: August 25, 2025                       Application Deadline:  September 8, 2025

Requisition 11748

Current benefited staff of SMCPS who submit a timely application and meet the minimum qualifications for the position shall be granted an interview and shall be considered to fill the vacancy prior to external applicants being considered.  Questions regarding your application and/or candidacy should be directed to the Department of Human Resources.

Position:  Secondary Schools Literacy Coach 10M Grant-Funded                            

Location: Chopticon High School

Salary: The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for ten-month employees.

Effective: September 2025

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

Qualified applicants, including current employees of St. Mary's County Public Schools, must complete a TalentEd online application. In addition to the online application, any support documentation (copy of certification where applicable) must be scanned and uploaded to the TalentEd application. The online application and any support documentation must clearly demonstrate that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications, including information about the applicant’s background, experience, and professional qualifications. Failure to submit all required documentation will result in your application being considered incomplete. Incomplete applications will not be forwarded to the selection committee for review. All online applications must be completed no later than September 8, 2025. Following a screening of credentials, interviews will be scheduled. Please contact the Department of Human Resources with questions. (301-475-5511, ext. 32187)

NATURE OF WORK:

This is a professional position to meet the instructional goals of the school and school system by delivering instructional programs effectively to ensure student achievement with a primary focus on Literacy.  The Literacy Coach also works with other staff within individual schools to mentor, model, guide, and enhance the delivery of instruction to students and/or work with individual students or small groups to provide focused instruction.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Ability to professionally relate to and collaborate with co-workers, students, and community members
• Ability to understand and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use technology effectively to complete tasks
• Ability to report to work daily and on time
• Ability to organize, supervise, coordinate and establish priorities of tasks to be completed
• Ability to work independently in the absence of detailed instructions and to follow complex oral and/or written instructions
• Ability to communicate orally or in writing, courteously and tactfully, with staff, students, parents, and the community in a timely manner
• Possess excellent time management skills and the ability to take initiative and make decisions within assigned responsibility in a challenging, fast-paced professional environment and be flexible in work responsibilities and hours
• Possess knowledge of the programs, policies, and procedures of the St. Mary’s County Public Schools
• Ability to analyze data to impact instruction to include but not limited to the use of UNIFY
• Knowledge of state and system requirements and initiatives
• Knowledge of curriculum and staff development

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assumes major responsibility for data collection and instructional support to schools and staff
• Collaborates with central office and school-based administration and school-based teacher leadership to help them meet their instructional goals established as part their School Improvement Plan and  MSDE requirements such as Bridge and College and Career Readiness Status (CCR)
• Models and provides coaching for staff and school mentor teams focusing on areas identified by the system leadership and/or the school site to support increased student achievement in both literacy and disciplinary literacy
• Facilitates transition and accountability activities between and among the middle and high school sites assigned
• Provides care and protection of school property
• Supervises student activity on school property
• Delivers focused instruction to individual students or small groups of students
• Provides mentoring and support for teachers and staff including participation on the new teacher mentoring team
• Assists school-based leadership with the administration and interpretation of formal and informal assessments
• Facilitates collaborative team discussions and other data-based decision-making sessions including PLC and department meetings
• Conducts professional development for administrators, teachers and parents as required and/or needed to support system and school initiatives
• Meets with the Supervisor of Instructional Programs and/or Instructional Resource Cohort on a monthly or bi-weekly basis
• Models and shares best instructional strategies for SMCPS administration and school-based staff through direct modeling; information sharing at Professional Development sessions; and/or through electronic communication such as newsletters
• Participates in system-wide professional develop to share at the school level
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Professional License/Certification
• Five (5) years teaching experience
• National Board Certified OR Master's degree OR 30-semester credits post-baccalaureate

Preferred:

• Certification as a reading specialist and/or a master’s degree in an educational field preferred

TERM OF EMPLOYMENT:

Full-time ten-month position.

SALARY GRADE RANGE: The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for ten-month employees.

BARGAINING UNIT ELIGIBILITY:  EASMC

Update: 7.2024, 04.2025