Biliteracy Coach (Bilingual Spanish & English) - Certificated

Biliteracy Coach (Bilingual Spanish & English) - Certificated at Voices College-Bound Language Academies

Job Summary

Job Summary

The Biliteracy Coach serves as an instructional leader who supports teachers in implementing high-quality biliteracy instruction within the school's Spanish/English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program. The coach works collaboratively with teachers, administrators, and instructional teams to improve student achievement through coaching, professional development, data analysis, and implementation of evidence-based biliteracy practices. The biliteracy coach promotes the goals of bilingualism, biliteracy, academic achievement, and sociocultural competence while ensuring equitable outcomes for all students, including multilingual learners. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provide individualized coaching and support to teachers biliteracy instruction. Model effective biliteracy lessons in both English and Spanish classrooms. Conduct classroom observations and provide timely, constructive feedback to teachers. Support teachers in implementing differentiated instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Collaborate with teachers to plan lessons, assessments, interventions, and instructional strategies. Support teachers in implementing the school's Dual Language Immersion model with fidelity. Promote research-based frameworks like the Biliteracy Unit Framework (Beeman), Literacy Squared (Escamilla), C6 Biliteracy Framework (Medina) that support bilingualism and biliteracy development. Advanced expertise in early biliteracy development, prioritizing orality as a foundational precursor to literacy, with deep knowledge of the Simple View of Reading, Roads to Reading for Multilingual Learners (2025), and the science of reading, as well as the important critiques and additional lens needed of SoR by the dual language education community. Coach teachers on effective strategies for developing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in English and Spanish. Support the implementation of cross-linguistic transfer strategies that strengthen biliteracy

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