TITLE: Teacher- Library Coordinator & Literacy Resource

LOCATION: District-Wide

QUALIFICATIONS: As set by state certification authorities 

• In addition to certification required by state authorities, English Language Arts, Reading Teacher and/or Reading Specialist endorsement is preferred.

REPORTS TO: Principal 

SUPERVISES: Teacher aide and volunteers assigned

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Personnel Support: Manages and supports district library staff; provides direct training on circulation procedures, and literacy support strategies to ensure positive student-focused environments at all sites.
• Resource Management: Oversees the district's library management system (LMS), and book ordering, ensuring consistent cataloging practices and access to books across all school sites.
• Curriculum-Aligned Collection Development: Establishes criteria for high-quality, developmentally appropriate, and diverse collections; collaborates with grade-level teams to identify, procure, and integrate resources that directly support and enhance the district's core curriculum units and literacy vision.
• Curriculum Integration: Partners with classroom teachers to design and deliver lessons that embed information literacy and research skills into core subjects.
• Literacy Advocacy: Fosters a lifelong love of reading by implementing district-wide reading initiatives that promote student engagement and reading for pleasure.
• Budget Oversight: Manages the district library budget, including the application for and strategic use of grants, state aid, and the procurement of all digital and print materials.
• Framework Alignment: Guides the learning process toward the achievement of district goals by ensuring all library programming and resources are in alignment with the district's instructional goals, and literacy vision.
• Needs-Based Allocation: Plans resource allocation that, as much as possible, meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of students.
• Learning Environment: Creates a library environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students.
• General Responsibilities:
  • Meets and instructs students in the locations and at the time designated.
  • Employs instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting stated objectives.
  • Assesses the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and provides progress reports as required.
  • Assists the administration in implementing all policies and/or rules governing student life and conduct, and for the classroom develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and just manner.
  • Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.
  • Attends staff meetings and serves on staff committees as required.
  • Accepts such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as may from time to time be assigned.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: * Ten-month year.

• Full-Time Employment.
• Contractual salary and benefits as established by the Agreement between the Board of Education-Darien Public Schools Dist #61 and Darien Education Assoc.