Literacy Liaison, Grades K-8

The School at Columbia University is an independent K-8 school founded in 2003 with the goal of providing an excellent education to a diverse student body. Our intentional school culture embraces shared beliefs across disciplines and grades, which underlie important values expressed through everyday behaviors and visible symbols throughout our community.

We dedicate ourselves to fostering in our students personal resourcefulness and integrity, a sense of social responsibility, and a lifelong appreciation of learning through an innovative, socially and emotionally supportive, and academically challenging program. Our pedagogical and curricular philosophies embrace multicultural perspectives, which challenge educators and learners to examine their preconceived notions of race, gender, ethnicity, class, ability, religion, and sexual orientation. We adhere to a common code of civility among all constituents. We tailor our instruction so that the needs of the individual students are met. A committed faculty and administration strive to create a school that will stand as a model for what K-8 education can be, and serve as a genuine and enduring partnership between Columbia University and its neighbors.

    Responsibilities:

• Continually develop differentiated literacy curriculum

• Design formative and summative assessment tools to be used to inform instruction and communicate with families on children’s progress

• Collect, track, analyze student data to inform programming

• Facilitate grade-level meetings with teachers in order to co-create units of study connected with the scope and sequence and conceptual framework of The School’s curriculum

• Facilitate individual teacher meetings to support specific goals set for both the teacher and individual students

• Model lessons and provide learning opportunities for teachers to observe best practices in both content and pedagogy

• Collaborate with learning specialists to support teachers in meeting the needs of specific students with varying learning styles and abilities including advise teachers on technology integration

• Communicate our philosophy for how we teach literacy to families and continue to foster a strong home-school connection through in-person and virtual family engagement events

• Keep current of new developments in the literacy field and act as a resource to The School community

• Design and provide professional development workshops for teachers

• Fulfilling all duties, responsibilities, and commitments as outlined in the school’s Guidebook and the organization’s code of conduct

• Keep careful anecdotal and assessment records to write accurate, comprehensive student reports that reflect student growth and support their future education