Teacher on Special Assignment, Bilingual, English Learner Specialist, 6-12 (11 Months) - English Language Learners Multilingual Achievement (2026-27)

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Job Description for: TSA Bilingual, English Learner Specialist, 6-12

BASIC FUNCTION: Promote and support the OUSD strategic plan to ensure all students are college, career, and community ready. All department members will provide support and professional development through research-based, promising practices to build teacher and leader capacity in content and pedagogy with the goal of producing equitable and excellent outcomes for students in the Full Service Community Schools framework. They will develop and lead implementation of a Core Curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the new generation English Language Development standards.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge, or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to accurately reflect the principal job elements).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create professional development sessions focused on:
• Understanding our English Learners through data analysis
• Signature pedagogies for English Learners (e.g., Quality Academic Discussions)
• Creating learning experiences that provide access and explicit language support to English Learners (e.g., Academic Language and Literacy and Constructing Meaning)
• Understanding the new generation ELD standards and implications for instruction across content areas and for ELD classes
• Increasing teacher and school-site knowledge of the Response to Intervention Framework
• Creating and implementing curriculum aligned to CCSS
• Creating culturally responsive classrooms that value and build from students' funds of knowledge
• Contribute to the development of the toolkit of Signature Pedagogies for ELs
• Work with and build capacity of teacher leaders across content areas to create quality curriculum that meets the unique needs of English Learners and is aligned to the CCSS and ELD standards
• Support the development of Long-term English Learner Specialized Classes with a small group of pilot sites
• Cohort lead of an Academic Language and Literacy Inquiry Cohort
• Support summer school and secondary newcomer programs
• Oversight and review of ELD assessments
• Work across units within OUSD's Leadership, Teaching and Learning (T&L) to create coherence and further the collective vision
• Engage in collective and collaborative learning experiences with T&L staff in order to create a community focused on unified goals
• Collaborate with site and district leadership to coordinate and align supports for literacy and language instruction

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

TRAINING, EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE:

A Bachelor's degree (Master's Degree in education preferred) and minimum five years experience in classroom teaching; recent relevant experience providing professional development; and experience working with classroom teachers to build their capacity and leadership skills.

• Experience working in classrooms with high EL populations
• Experience coaching classroom teachers and working collaboratively with adult learners preferred

Learn more about our district at our next hiring event!

We are looking for passionate and dedicated educators, classified staff, and leaders to join us in creating joyful, healing and liberatory spaces of learning for Oakland students, families, and communities.

Oakland educators are passionate, equity-focused, and resilient. Oakland Unified is an incredible place to build and develop your career in service of our core values: students first, joy, equity, excellence, integrity, and cultural responsiveness.

Our Mission and Vision

The Oakland Unified School District's mission is to build a Full Service Community District focused on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity, and providing each child with excellent teachers, every day.

Our vision is that all OUSD students will find joy in their academic experience while graduating with the skills to ensure they are caring, competent, fully-informed, critical thinkers who are prepared for college, career, and community success.

Our Strategic Plan

The four key initiatives of our current district wide strategic plan are:

• Ensuring Strong Third Grader Readers (Catalyze citywide effort to guarantee literacy for all third graders)
• Supporting Powerful Graduates (Develop essential skills to secure post secondary success),
• Creating Inspiring Schools (Redesign schools to be places of joy, inclusion and beauty)
• Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff (Attract and retain staff reflective of Oakland's rich diversity)

We are seeking educators who believe that:

• Building and maintaining caring relationships with students and families is a key part of the foundation of teaching;
• Maintaining high expectations for all students is best accomplished through a persistent asset-based lens of what students can do;
• Your actions can directly lead to creating more equitable conditions in public schools;
• Your work is most effective in collaboration with colleagues, families, and students;
• Developing as an anti-racist educator requires investing time in self-reflection, listening and incorporating feedback from students, their families, other educators, and school leaders and is critical to your growth as an educator and leader.
• Working for racial justice requires close attention to educational systems and policies, and working to eliminate racism is critical to the educational success of all students.

What we offer teachers:

Oakland Unified has received substantial funding to support pathway programs including tuition and debt relief for selected middle school teachers, Special Education teachers, and for pathway programs, including Classified-to-Teacher, Maestr@s, and the After-School-to-Teacher programs. We are invested in creating and maintaining affinity spaces for educators that support retention and socio-emotional support. We provide extensive professional development and training for teachers, innovative curricula, ongoing mentoring and advancement opportunities. Our teachers are also given abundant opportunities to work together in Professional Learning Communities within and across schools in the District.

In addition to professional development and training, we offer a comprehensive compensation package that includes:

• Competitive salaries determined by experience, education level, and credentials
• We accept up to twelve years of full time teaching experience in other school settings on the salary schedule (please see our salary schedule here: https://www.ousd.org/Page/16118)
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits, including Flexible Spending Accounts, plus life insurance and long-term disability coverage
• Retirement benefits through the CALSTRS Retirement System
• Read more about benefits here: https://www.ousd.org/benefits

Qualifications:

Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree, must be eligible for employment in the US and pass a criminal background check. Candidates must possess a Preliminary or Clear California teaching credential authorizing instruction in core TK-12 curriculum.

Additional requirements:

• Completed online application
• Resume and cover Letter
• Two current professional references, including from a Supervisor

You can also learn more about our teaching opportunities and hiring events here: https://www.ousd.org/careers

If you have questions or would like more information, please email recruitment@ousd.org

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