Reading Interventionist

About North Side Community School

Are you a mission driven individual who believes every child deserves an excellent education in a warm, caring, nurturing, and rigorous school environment? Do you believe every day should be a fresh start for a child? Does the idea of helping children grow, develop, and achieve success despite societal barriers excite you? If so, North Side Community School may be the perfect place for you!

North Side Community School is a PreK – 8th grade charter public school in the City of St. Louis founded in 2009 with an enrollment of approximately 500 students. The most important word in our name is community. We are a community of small classrooms (15 to 18 students per class), amazing educators, and caring parents working every day to ensure our children succeed!

North Side Community School operates across three campuses (early childhood center, elementary campus, and middle school campus). We are free (no tuition), public, and open to all. North Side consistently provides a high-quality education often ranked as one of the best public schools in the City of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. Most of our students live in the most challenging neighborhoods in St. Louis and 100% of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Small class sizes, differentiated instruction, individualized attention, and AMAZING educators are the keys to our students’ success!

Compensation

We offer a generous compensation package including an array of benefits including assistance with advanced education.

Position Summary

North Side Community School is seeking a Reading Interventionist to begin in the 2023-2024 school year. Reading interventionists work extensively with students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies. An interventionist addresses the specific needs of a particular child when regular classroom instruction is not sufficient. Interventionists work with the teacher to design methods of learning that are most appropriate for each child

Essential Functions

• Consult frequently with classroom teachers on matters relating to reading instruction using a progress-monitoring instrument as a base.
• Design and provide reading interventions for students struggling with their reading progress.
• Assist teachers and other administrators and/or supervisors in coordinating and implementing the school reading program.
• Help teachers diagnose reading strengths and weaknesses and match these skills with appropriate techniques and materials.
• Keep the parents informed as to the purposes and progress of the reading program.
• Promote interest in reading.
• Work with the classroom teachers to monitor student progress.
• Design and lead development of reading success plans
• Lead the implementation of reading success plans
• Lead the assessment of reading levels/readiness for all students in grades K to 3 and newly enrolled students (grade1-5) at the beginning and end of the school year

Skills & Characteristics

• Familiar with Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III levels of support.
• Familiar with evidence-based reading strategies.
• Implements a variety of instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners
• Uses student data to develop long term and short term, differentiated plans
• Works collaboratively
• Implements the growth mindset in the classroom
• Uses a variety of management strategies to keep the classroom running smoothly
• Grows professionally and sets goals for themselves to become better educators

North Side Community School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying to the school. North Side Community School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A)

Reading Specialist degree preferred

Minimum 2 years of successful classroom teaching experience

Certification: Missouri state teaching certificate (or eligible to receive)