Multilingual Education Department Coordinator

 

Job Description: This is a position that supports the enrollment, engagement and compliance for multilingual learners, dual language students and former EL students. This position supports both teachers and leaders to welcome new students and ensure schools compliance in alignment with DESE guidance for EL students. 

 

Enrollment duties: 

ELD: This position is meant to be a connection between enrollment/central office and schools to welcome new students with an asset based descriptive profiles in addition to WIDA screener information. Expectations for enrolling students include:

1. Reviewing documents and previous ACCESS scores
2. SLIFE interviews
3. Discussing needs with new families and ensuring they have support
4. Screen and score the students with WIDA screener
5. Screen and score the students using first language screeners
6. Adding HLS, intake and necessary documents to Ellevations. 
7. Create handovers for schools to include information on student academic and linguistic history, interests and important information for schools to know in order to welcome students. 

 

Compliance duties:

ELD: Manage ELLevation:

1. Monitor forms; create the date 
2. Create Users for all upcoming teachers (August) and also throughout the year if anyone is new I create a username for them
3. Run Report
4. Run Compliance reports and follow up with teachers on needs to adjust schedule
5. Upload documents if needed
6. Manage & attend BELL meetings
7. Support BELLs in monitoring and compliance tasks
8. Adding the screener records/hls+everything else that is sent home to schoolbrains
9. Send initial or continuation letter to parents
10. Annual parent letters 
11. Opt out forms- receive them, update coding in sb and add document to ELLevation

 

Dual Language: 

• Connect EL families with DL information
• Screen all students interested in joining DL program with Spanish screener
• Order/manage STAMP tests
• Order/manage seal of biliteracy

 

Family and Community Engagement

• Partner with FACE, ENLACE and other community supports to assure that EL families are set up in the HPS school system.
• Using DESE Holistic Support and Enrichment, Social-Emotional Learning, Health, and Safety- support families

 

Requirements: 

equirements

 

 

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, or 2 years of college-level coursework with 3 years of highly relevant experience or equivalent training in a school, early education or community agency setting which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform essential job functions.

 

• Demonstrated working knowledge of community dynamics, resources, services, leaders and partners

 

• Knowledge of community conditions in Holyoke and of the needs of the diverse families residing in Holyoke

 

• Direct experience working with families, family programming and community outreach

 

• Demonstrated dedication to family-school partnerships

 

• Cultural competence in Puerto Rican/Latino communities

 

• Warm and engaging personality, plus solid interpersonal skills and abilities to develop leadership skills in others

 

• Excellent proactive oral and written communication skills

 

• Abilities to work independently and be a self-initiator

 

• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and to work and deliver results as part of multiple teams

 

• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, student database and other office software preferred.

 

• Bilingual abilities (English/Spanish)