Literacy Coordinator and Coach

Literacy Coordinator and Coach (K–6)

Full-Time Faculty Position

The Literacy Coordinator and Coach is a full-time member of the faculty who supports literacy teaching and learning across grades K–6. The Literacy Coordinator and Coach provides coaching to teachers, partnership to students, and collaboration with families, faculty, and school leadership.

This role supports PS1’s literacy program by strengthening instructional practice, supporting a wide range of learners, and helping to steward a coherent, developmentally responsive literacy program within a progressive, pluralistic educational framework.

• Support the design and implementation of developmentally responsive, interdisciplinary literacy instruction rooted in joy, curiosity, and productive struggle
• Collaborate with teachers to integrate reading, writing, and word study meaningfully into interdisciplinary learning
• Support differentiated literacy instruction in multi-age classrooms to meet a wide range of learners and foster student agency in reading, writing, and word study
• Use observation, documentation, and progress-monitoring tools to guide instructional coaching and program decisions
• Support teachers in writing clear, thoughtful narrative reports that reflect students’ literacy and social-emotional growth
• Work directly with students to support the development of foundational reading and writing skills (e.g., phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, comprehension, and written expression)
• Provide targeted small-group or individual literacy instruction, both within classrooms and outside of core instructional time when appropriate
• Design and implement literacy interventions that are responsive, explicit, and aligned with classroom instruction