2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR
Posting Date – December 6, 2024
Position: Reading Specialist – Grades K-8 (full-time, tenure track)
Start Date: Immediate opening
Appropriate certification required:
- Valid New Jersey Teaching Certificate
- Reading Specialist Certificate (#3310)
- Orton Gillingham Certification helpful
- 5 years of successful teaching experience
Qualifications & Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
- Conduct and interpret literacy assessments and other district performance data to identify students’ reading levels and needs.
- Develop and teach targeted reading interventions and personalized instruction to individuals and small groups using research-based strategies and resources
- Comprehensive experience with content and methodology in following the key areas: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
- Provide support and strategies to teachers to improve instruction and support literacy growth across the curriculum.
- Works with students, teachers, parents, and administrators to strengthen student achievement in the areas of Language Arts in accordance with the current New Jersey State Learning Standards
- Assists with implementation and review/revision of the District's reading curriculum
- Oversees the administration of the annual K-2 Dyslexia screening and analyze resulting data
- Works collaboratively with administrators in developing and providing staff development in the field of reading
- Acts as a resource to RTI teams, teachers, and parents in the field of reading
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Perform such other duties as assigned by district administration
Salary: Competitive salary and benefits package per MEA Agreement
Apply: Email letter of interest, resume, and a copy of certification(s) to: jobs@mountainsideschools.org
The Mountainside School District is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. The district
does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age,
status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.