Job Description:

Purpose Statement

The purpose of the Achievement Advisor is to effectively use a variety of instructional practices, coaching and leadership skills to develop deep understanding of curriculum, instruction, and assessment and provide ongoing, targeted support for site-based and district-wide students, teachers and other AA colleagues across disciplines. Achievement Advisors may be assigned to work with just students, just staff or with both populations.

Essential Functions

1. Instructional Support

• Model, whisper coach, and/or co-teach with effective instructional practices for teachers and other AAs
• Collaborate with district and site Achievement Advisors and administrators to provide in-class support
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to improve instruction
• Support teachers and administrators in developing a teaching-learning model to increase students’ achievement of grade level curriculum
• Analyze and interpret data to drive instructional support
• Conduct consistent, in-the-moment, in-class support for all teachers
• Provide teachers with in-the-moment support who are on support plans upon site administrator and/or district director request
• Lead teachers through the lesson planning process to ensure instruction is aligned with state standards
• Facilitate reflective conferences with teachers when appropriate

2. Professional Development Facilitation

• Analyze and interpret data to drive instruction and professional development
• Assist with the planning, creation, facilitation, and implementation of site and district professional development
• Conduct in-service programs for teachers and staff as required by federal, state, district and/or site initiatives

3. Collaborative Team Support

• Support grade-level and content-specific teams through a collaborative inquiry process of implementing curriculum, instruction, and assessment effective practices
• Create and evaluate curricula and assessments at the site and district-wide
• Provide evidence-based strategies to staff for student support

4. Student Intervention and Remediation

• Provide direct instructional services to targeted students for intervention and remediation
• Analyze and interpret data to drive explicit instruction
• Develop short term and long term plans of student support to be implemented

5. Other duties as assigned as related to the job description

*Complete job description and online application available at: www.gesd40.org