Specifications include, but are not limited to: Work with the MDE, Office of Special Education staff to prioritize, schedule, organize, and to provide technical assistance to SSIP literacy coaches, teachers, and administrators on evidence-based literacy strategies such as the Science of Reading and High-Quality Instructional Practices; provide appropriate coaching and professional development services that address reading deficiencies in schools to ensure that there is cohesive, sustained, intensive, and classroom-focused professional development and coaching that is rigorous, engaging, and aligned to the Mississippi College and Career-Readiness Standards; develop non-threatening, open, professional, relationships with SSIP literacy coaches, district-level school personnel, school-based literacy coaches, principals, and teachers; and effectively identify the literacy and instructional needs of the assigned school and teachers to prioritize, schedule, organize, and provide technical assistance to teachers to increase grade-level reading outcomes for students by the end of 3rd grade; assist teachers with the implementation of new and innovative resources to improve literacy instruction for students with disabilities in grades K-3; provide appropriate coaching and professional development services to literacy coaches and teachers that address reading deficiencies in their assigned schools; documented experience designing and conducting professional development specific to evidence-based literacy instruction; Lead assigned coaches in the prescribed work of the SSIP under the leadership of the State SSIP Coordinator(s), · extensive travel throughout the State; and · uphold the confidentiality of all students, school, district, and State-level data.
