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Position Overview: The Read to Achieve (RTA) Interventionist serves as a literacy leader responsible for implementing and supporting a structured literacy, evidence-based reading intervention program within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework. This position ensures that elementary students, with emphasis of K-3, who are reading significantly below benchmark receive accelerated, data-driven intervention aligned to the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Reading and Writing.The RTA Interventionist also supports schoolwide literacy capacity-building, ensures compliance with KDE RTA grant requirements, and contributes to professional learning at both the school and district levels.
Reports To: School Principal and/or District RTA Coordinator
Primary Responsibilities
1. MTSS Implementation
- Serve as an active member of the school-based MTSS Team, supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 literacy systems
- Support the development and monitoring of Reading Improvement Plans and Read at Home Plans in alignment with KRS 158.305
- Collaborate with staff (including classroom teachers, special education, and library media specialists) to ensure coordinated literacy supports
- Assist in building schoolwide capacity for evidence-based literacy practices, particularly in structured literacy
- Support MTSS team efforts to:
- Analyze student data
- Monitor progress and rate of improvement
- Adjust instruction and intervention
2. Intervention Planning and Delivery
- Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention using a structured literacy, evidence-based program that:
- Aligns to KAS for Reading and Writing
- Targets phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Is responsive to diagnostic data and individual student needs
- Ensure intervention services supplement, not replace Tier 1 core instruction
- Deliver short-term, intensive, and explicit instruction designed to accelerate student learning
- Group students flexibly and adjust instruction based on progress monitoring data
- Ensure fidelity of implementation of intervention programs
3. Assessment, Data Collection, and Reporting
- Administer and support administration of:
- Universal screeners
- Diagnostic assessments
- Progress monitoring tools
- Use assessment data to:
- Identify students for intervention
- Inform instruction and intervention adjustments
- Support movement within MTSS tiers
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation, including:
- Assessment data
- Intervention services
- Student progress and outcomes
- Parent communication
- Participate in required KDE and KYRRC reporting, including submission of implementation documentation through designated platforms (e.g., Google Classroom)
- Ensure data is valid, reliable, and collected with fidelity
4. Professional Learning and Capacity Building
- Participate in all required RTA professional learning, including:
- Curriculum-Based Professional Learning (CBPL) aligned to HQIR and intervention programs
- Training on the essential components of reading
- Assessment literacy (screening, diagnostics, progress monitoring)
- KDE’s Getting to Know the KAS for Reading and Writing (GTKTK) training
- Lead and/or facilitate school-level professional learning focused on:
- Structured literacy practices
- Effective intervention strategies
- Data use within MTSS
- Collaborate with district leadership to support or facilitate district-level professional learning as needed
- Engage in ongoing study of evidence-based literacy practices
5. Compliance and Program Implementation
- Ensure full implementation of RTA grant requirements, including:
- Use of KDE-approved high-quality instructional resources (HQIR) for Tier 1
- Implementation of an approved structured literacy intervention program
- Maintain all required documentation for grant compliance and monitoring
- Support school leadership in preparing required submissions, including:
- Assurance documentation
- Professional learning plans
- Implementation evidence
- Ensure adherence to timelines, reporting expectations, and KDE guidance
- Support continuity of services, including planning for intervention delivery during staff absences
6. Family Engagement
- Support implementation of a schoolwide system to:
- Communicate with families of struggling readers
- Provide Read at Home Plans and guidance
- Increase family understanding of how to support literacy development
- Use both digital and non-digital communication methods to engage families
7. Collaboration and Communication
- Work collaboratively with:
- Classroom teachers
- School administrators
- MTSS Team members
- District staff
- Provide guidance to teachers on:
- Interpreting student data
- Aligning Tier 1 instruction with intervention practices
- Communicate student progress and intervention outcomes clearly and consistently
Qualifications
- Valid Kentucky teaching certificate (Elementary or appropriate certification required)
- Demonstrated knowledge of:
- Structured literacy and the science of reading
- MTSS frameworks and intervention systems
- Data analysis and progress monitoring
- Experience delivering reading interventions preferred
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
Performance Expectations
- Demonstrates measurable student growth in reading, particularly among students receiving Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions
- Ensures high fidelity implementation of intervention programs
- Maintains accurate, compliant, and timely data reporting
- Actively contributes to MTSS effectiveness and schoolwide literacy improvement
- Builds teacher capacity through effective professional learning
Terms of Employment
- Salary and contract length in accordance with district salary schedule and RTA grant funding guidelines
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Certified Personnel.