Release Date:  July 1, 2025     Application Deadline:  July 15, 2025

Requisition: 11546

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:      Elementary Schools Literacy Coach 10M Grant-Funded

REPORTS TO:  Site Administrator

LOCATION:     Ridge Elementary and Piney Point Elementary Schools

SALARY:         The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Specialist Career Ladder for ten-month employees

EFFECTIVE:     August 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 July 15, 2025. Following a screening of credentials, interviews will be scheduled. Please contact the Department of Human Resources with questions at 301-475-5511, ext. 1 or hrd@smcps.org.             

NATURE OF WORK:

This professional position supports the instructional goals of the school and school system by ensuring effective literacy instruction that leads to improved student achievement. The Grant-Funded Elementary Schools Literacy Coach mentors and models best practices for staff, enhances instructional delivery, and collaborates with school teams to analyze assessments, support Tier 1 whole- and small-group instruction, and provide professional development for teachers, support staff, and parents.

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, including instructional 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
• Ability to work under pressure
• 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
• Possess knowledge of curriculum and staff development 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates leadership skills and assumes major responsibility for the Read and Lead Grant, including grant management, data collection, and instructional support to schools and staff
• Works collaboratively with central office, school-based administration, and school-based teacher leadership to help meet instructional goals established as part of the Read and Lead Grant, individual schools’ School Improvement Plans, and MSDE coaching cohort requirements for literacy coaches
• Models and provides coaching for staff and school teams focusing on areas identified by the system leadership and/or the school site to support increased student achievement in literacy
• Assists school-based leadership and classroom teachers with the administration and interpretation of formal and informal assessments
• Analyzes data to impact instruction to include but not limited to the use of the SMCPS data management system
• Facilitates collaborative team discussions and other data-based decision-making sessions, including Universal Screen Team (UST) meetings and data meetings
• Meets with the Supervisor of Elementary ELA and/or Instructional Resource Teacher Cohort on a monthly or bi-weekly basis
• Provides leadership in literacy initiative implementation and prepares required grant reports in a timely manner
• Participates in system-wide professional development to share at the school level
• Models and provides coaching for staff providing service to students, focusing on areas identified through universal screening and other summative and formative assessments
• 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
• Facilitates professional development for administrators, teachers, and parents as required and/or needed to support system and school initiatives
• Provides guidance to teachers who work with students to promote their educational development and welfare
• Plans and coordinates the instructional program in accordance with the current curricula
• Works in conjunction with other instructional staff to improve delivery of instruction
• Performs other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Possess advanced professional certificate or license or eligible to receive APC/APL in the current school year (through submission of official transcripts)
• Minimum of (5) five years of successful teaching experience

Preferred:

• LETRS 1-8 Training
• Certification as a reading specialist and/or a master’s degree in an educational field

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

Updated 6.2025