Operations / Administration 48545 SPECIALIST, ELEMENTARY LITERACY ASSESSMENT
Job Description
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ACADEMICS
Traditional 235 work days
FTE: 1.0
Salary Range: $59,355 – $71,923
Essential Functions and Objectives:
Administers and manages activities within a specific area of a responsibility. Serves as the subject matter expert and applies gained knowledge to execute, maintain and improve systems, programs, or processes.
Performs a variety of professional, technical, and administrative tasks in developing and administering high quality assessments and correlating resources, including Student Learning Objectives (SLOs). Interprets public school rules, laws, and policies regarding assessment. Trains school personnel in proper administration and creation of common assessments, analysis of data, and SLOs. Interprets changes to the District curriculum and Colorado standards, ensuring assessments, resources, and SLOs are aligned, and informs teachers and principals of the implications of these changes.
– Provides various support and conducts activities related to logistics, reporting, training, communications, and processes. Participates in the planning and implementation of new initiatives.
– Assesses and troubleshoots escalated problems and applies expert understanding to resolve complex challenges of stakeholders; focuses on root cause identification in order to achieve systemic and sustainable improvement. Approves and documents exceptions for compliance record keeping and reporting.
– Ensures appropriate key stakeholder involvement in planning, goal-setting, and implementation to achieve buy-in of work products. Ensures purposeful, positive and professional interactions and relationships with all stakeholders; enables consistent application of work products across the district.
– Identifies opportunities for improvement, prioritizes, and recommends solutions to management. Implements approved enhancements to ensure consistency across the district. identifies opportunities to reduce costs; analyzes available data, trends, and feedback, and ensures compliance with expectations for optimal operation and goal achievement.
– Assumes a lead role in a particular content area (Elementary Literacy, Secondary Literacy, Mathematics, Science/Beyond the Common Core (BCC), Social Studies/BCC).
– Develops assessment items to be used on District assessments and in the District item bank and develops model SLOs and learning progressions for content area assigned.
– Collaborates with other departments in the management, development, and analysis of District-supported assessments and SLOs.
– Utilizes the District’s item banking system to modify and catalog items as needed.
– Assists Research Team in the development or modification of assessment reports and conducts analyses of assessment results.
– Works with network staff to provide support and professional development to District schools in the areas of SLOs, assessment literacy, and the use of online systems to deliver assessments and assessment results electronically.
– Uses information from assessments to work with other departmental staff to identify strengths and specific areas of need, including technical assistance and consultation on assessment administration, interpretation, and ethical considerations.
– Monitors SLO submissions for content area assigned, determining the quality of SLOs and collaborating with schools to create next steps to address SLOs that are not of high quality.
– Contributes to the ongoing development and implementation of the SLO system, providing support, communication, and training for SLOs to school leaders and teachers.
Knowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:
– Minimum of five (5) years of successful teaching experience.
– Minimum of two (2) years of experience in item development (constructed response, selected response and performance based tasks), assessment creation, rubric development, and item analysis.
– Valid Colorado Driver’s License, appropriate insurance coverage, and acceptable driving record for the past three years.
– Substantial knowledge and experience working with Colorado Academic Standards and/or Common Core State Standards.
– Strong understanding of the fundamental assessment concepts (e.g., reliability, validity).
– Proficiency with Microsoft Office/Google Suite products including Word, Excel and Outlook.
– Effective time management and organizational skills.
– Ability to understand and interpret assessment data.
– Ability to develop and present complex information to teachers, administrators, or other adults.
– Effectively handles multiple demands and competing deadlines.
– Works collaboratively with others on a team.
– The ability to take responsibility for one’s own performance.
– Aptitude for variety and changing expectations and fast-paced environment.
– Effective verbal and written communication skills Preferred Skill in MS Access or SPSS Preferred Bilingual (Spanish/English)
Education Requirements:
– Bachelor’s Degree in education, required.
– Master’s Degree in education, preferred.
Additional Information:
– Work Year Calendars (including accrued time off): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1129
– Benefits (including DPS contributions): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1397
– Compensation Structures: http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/244
– Employee must live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado while working for Denver Public Schools.
About Denver Public Schools:
Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.
DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.
Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
