EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Required:
- Instructional skills and knowledge base in early literacy components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension
- Familiarity and success with utilizing formative, screening, and diagnostic tools with students to determine appropriate reading instruction
- Ability to utilize data from diagnostic tools to determine additional extra supports needed in order to read at grade level by the end of 3rd Grade
- Successful experience in classroom instructional development, curriculum design, and assessment
- Successful experience providing professional development training
- Master’s Degree in Education with teaching experience at Grades K-3
Preferred:
- Reading Specialist certification, Reading Recovery Training, or the equivalent amount of training focused on research-based practices in early literacy
- Michigan School Administrator Certification
REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, and REGISTRATIONS
- Valid Michigan Teacher Certificate
- Michigan School Administrator Certification (may obtain after hire per timeline prescribed by law
